Sandpit participants profiles
Raquel Nunes, Assistant Professor, WMS
1. Collaborative Research Culture
2. Research Career Diversity and Mobility
3. Research Leadership
Thipphaphone Xayavong, PhD student, Global Sustainable Development
1. Health and Wellbeing in Research Community
2. Community Resilience
3. Technician or research support empowerment (through Community-based Participatory Research)
Bing Lu, Student Experience and Progression, Faculty of Arts
1. Inclusive education for students
2. Inclusive academic development programme (for supervisors in particular)
3. Active Bystander in teaching space
Ronghui Zhou, IAS Fellow
1. Research Conduct and Integrity
2. Interdisciplinary research
Rachael Kirwan, Project Manager, Business Partnerships
1. Connecting colleagues within Warwick
2. Offering opportunities for colleagues to explore methods of interdisciplinary working 3. Recording and evaluating outputs both qualitatively and quantitatively to provide learnings and feedback for future activities and initiatives.
Joe Watson, Teaching Fellow, Department of Classics and Ancient History
1. Developing links between EDI and research
2. Improving visibility of career outcomes for students broadly under the EDI banner
3. Disseminating the broad scope of career and research possibilities for students of all backgrounds
Said El-Hassan, Research Fellow, Life Sciences
1. Research development
2. Research funding
3. Collaboration and Networking
Anuradha Peramunugamage, Programme coordinator, Chemistry
1. Open Educational Resources
Gla Sinted, PGR, Chemistry
1. Collaborative Research Culture
2. Recognition of Diverse Contribution to Research
3. Research Leadership
Lelia Buretia, EU Research Development Officer, RIS
1. Researcher careers
2. Research leadership
Grace Kamanga, PhD candidate, Sustainable Development
1. Sustainability
2. Gender studies
3. Global south
Erin Gorsich, Associate Professor, Life Sciences
1. Improving access to and participation in research
2. Improving research leadership skills across all career stages
3. Securing and supporting the careers of researchers and associated professions
Simon Garsinger, Early Career Fellow
1. Collaboration
2. Inter- and transdisciplinarity
3. Open forums of exchange
Mona Faraji Niri, Assistant Professor, WMG
1. ECR Development
2. Collaboration
Branwen Hide, Research Development Officer (Physics), RIS
1.Career Diversity and Mobility
2.Tackling bullying and harassment
3. Supporting the careers of researchers in an inclusive research environment
Raheela Shaikh, Department of Health, Warwick Medical School. Research Fellow , CLARITY (NIHR, SPHR)
1. Bridging the gap between communities and researcher
2. Creating a Knowledge Partnership
3. work on changing the paradigm "hard-to-reach communities"
Jackie Whitehouse, Head of Work Based & Professional Learning
1. Co-creation of work based apprenticeship delivery
2. Benefits of degree apprenticeships at Level 7 Senior Leaders across multiple sectors
3. Engaging employers in apprenticeship curriculum design
Elisabeth Herrmann, School of Modern Languages and Cultures Deputy Head of School Director of Research and Impact
1. Non-academic stakeholder involvement in research 2. Research support optimisation 3. Research enabler empowerment 4. Researcher training 5. Research leadership 6. The wellbeing of researchers
Fengzai Tang, Test Facility Engineer, WMG
Richard Smith, Applied Linguistics
1. Learning about one another's research in a department or school, for possible synergies
2. Learning about one another's research across departments/schools, for possible synergies
3. Receiving / giving mentoring with regard to research
Gracie Li, Research Fellow, Statistics
1. Collaborative Research Culture
2. Collaborative Research Culture
3. Research Career Diversity and Mobility
Shravani Sharma, PhD researcher, WMG
1.Improving access to and participation in research, including postgraduate research study, for people from currently underrepresented groups
2. Delivering new approaches to public dialogue and community-led research.
Nikki Muckle, Director of Strategic Initiatives Faculty of Social Sciences
1. Research Leadership
2. Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity
3. Embedding Change
Salam Basha Shaik, PhD researcher, WMG
1.Creating routes for collaboration and exchange with businesses, third sector organisations and government.
2.Securing and supporting the careers of researchers and associated professions. 3.Diversifying recruitment, reward and recognition approaches at all career stages.
Feng Mao, Director of Research, School for cross-faculty studies
1. Understand how we can improve the research culture within SCFS.
Jennifer Rolls, Research Fellow, WMG
Katie Berlin, Projects Officer, Dean of Students Office
1. Inclusive research communities
2. Closing the leaky pipeline between UG studies and academic careers for minority groups
3. How research culture is tied to/can enhance/benefit student success
Thatpond Kiatkittikul, PhD candidate, WMG
1. Creating routes for collaboration and exchange with businesses, third sector organisations and government 2. Improving access to and participation in research, including postgraduate research study, for people from currently underrepresented groups 3. Improving research leadership skills across all career stages
Lauren Wilkinson, PhD student, Department of Psychology
1. Neurodiversity in research (in general and PGR)
2. Participatory action research
Fengyuan Tian, PhD student, Engineering
1.Open Science
2.Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
3.Mental Health and Well-being
Neda Genova, Research Fellow
1. Delivering new approaches to public dialogue 2. Furthering open research practices 3. Improving research leadership skills at ECR stage
Al Tariq Sheik, Doctoral Researcher; Research Associate, Alan Turing Institute, WMG
1. Research Leadership
2. Psychological safety in Research
3. Collaborative Research Environment
Christopher Moran, PAIS Deputy Chair of the FSS (Research)
1. Securing and supporting the careers of researchers and associated professions
Yudhi Ariadi, School of Engineering, Teaching Fellow
1. Creating routes for collaboration and exchange with businesses, third sector organisations and government.
2. Furthering open research practices
3. Improving research leadership skills across all career stages
Maryam Masood, Assistant Professor, WMG
1. Cultural Awareness
2. Research Culture for carers
Poonam Aulak, WMG - Discipline Group lead for Research Methods & projects
1. Diversifying recruitment, reward and recognition approaches at all career stages 2. Tackling bullying and harassment
Ninna Makrinov, Assistant Professor (Research Methods), WMG
1. Inclusive research environments: improving access to and participation in postgraduate research study, for people from currently underrepresented groups
2. Collaborative research: co-creating knowledge and collaborations with third sector and government
3. Recognition of diverse contributions to research: teaching pathways and pedagogical research
Stella Qian, Psychology Research Fellow
1. Unrepresented data in human behavioural science and computer vision
2. Open access of data
3. Transparency of data analyses procedures
Azib Norazman, PhD Student, Physics
1. Improving access to and participation in research, including postgraduate research study, for people from currently underrepresented groups
2. Diversifying recruitment, reward and recognition approaches at all career stages 3. Supporting the careers of researchers
Frank Zhou, Assistant professor, WMG
1. Research Leadership
2. Inclusive Research Environments
3. Embedding Institutional Research Culture Change
4. Collaborative Research Culture 5. Recognition of Diverse Contributions to Research
Zhihao Dai, PhD student, Computer Science
1. Promoting research sharing both within the university/department and outside through public engagement.
2. Committed to open access and sharing and improving reproducibility of Computer Science research.
3. Engaging with undergraduate and graduate students and helping them achieve early success in research
Yanyan Li, PhD student, Senior GTA, Masters dissertation supervisor, WMG
1. Practicability/applicability of research outcomes
2. Engagement with a wider audience
3. Research for enjoyment and curiosity
Aaron Yan, Research Fellow, Engineering
1. Inclusive Research Environments
2. Collaborative Research Culture
3. Research Career Diversity and Mobility
Rika Nair, Research Culture Manager, R&IS
1. Tackling bullying and harassment
2. Recognition of diverse contributions to research
3. Reducing the impact of fixed term contracts
Xiaomin Cai, PhD student, Engineering
1. Collaborative Research Culture
2. Inclusive Research Environments
3. Recognition of Diverse Contributions to Research
Thomas Bilterys, Psychology & Institute of Advanced Study Postdoctoral fellow (Eutopia SIF)
1. Securing and supporting the careers of researchers and associated professions
2. Improving research leadership skills across all career stages
3. Creating routes for collaboration and exchange with businesses, third sector organisations and government
Abimbola Ayorinde, Warwick Medical School, Assistant Professor (Research Focused)
1. Promoting equity
2. Knowledge sharing
3. Community engagement
Harriet Richmond, Research Development Consultant, LMD
1. Professional development (education and training) for researchers2. Creativity in research3. Writing for researchSarah Bennett, Research Facility Manager, Life Sciences
1. Recognising and respecting technicians
2. Sustainable technology and skills, enabling open research and value for money
3. Community amongst all
Marie Sams, Head of National Centre for Research Culture
1) The leaky pipeline / diversity in research and research enablers careers;
2) Sustainability of research culture initiatives; and
3) Research leadership.
Craig Carnegie, Research Fellow, WMG
1. Improving research leadership skills across all career stages
2. Improving access to and participation in research
3. Furthering open research practices
Vicky Strudwick, Head of Research Culture Partnerships
1. Sharing best practice in Research Culture development
2. Understanding research culture within non-HE research settings and contexts (e.g. industry, health organisations)
3. Working with funders, publishers and policymakers to promote a healthy research culture
Adele Kenny, Research Culture Officer, WMS
1. Bridging the NHS/University interface.
2. Supporting ‘failure’
3. Tackling bullying and harassment.
Haijiang Yan, Psychology, PhD student
1. Improving research conduct and reproducibility
2. Psychological Safety in Research
3. Collaborative Research Culture
Emma Williams, Director of Research and Impact, SELCS
1. To grow research culture in the newly formed School of Education, Learning and Communication Sciences
2. Supporting research leadership and growing research careers
3. Fostering an interdisciplinary and inclusive research culture
Roulla Philippou, Interdisciplinary Research Programme Administrator, R&IS
- Support and promote Warwick’s Interdisciplinary Research Spotlights and their thematic areas
- Community Engagement
- Mental Health & Wellbeing