Working group

The Biomedical Sciences Opportunities Committee (BSOC) aims to improve working conditions for employees, and ensure good equality and diversity practice.

The BSOC also acts as our Athena SWAN self-assessment team, to ensure that we fulfil the objectives in our current Athena SWAN award, so that Athena SWAN principles become integral to overall strategy within Biomedical Sciences. 

Following Athena SWAN guidelines, the BSOC includes representation from women and men at different stages of their academic careers, from PhD students through to Professors, and across Biomedical Sciences’ various Research Centres. 

We work towards broader engagement of staff and students, soliciting responses and ideas on how to improve strategy on a wide range of topics, including, amongst others:

the appraisal system; career development; training; dissemination of information about working conditions (such as flexible working); mentoring schemes; good practise across the recruitment process.

Working group members

 

Dr Dawn Livingstone

Senior Lecturer & Co-Convenor of the BSOC   

 

Dr Nathalie Rochefort

Sir Henry Dale Fellow and Chancellors Fellow & Co-Convenor of the BSOC 

 

Prof Richard Ribchester

Professor of Cellular Neuroscience, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences

 

Dr Kim Picozzi

Postgraduate Director of Teaching/Programme Director for MSc Global Health and Infectious Diseases

 

Prof David Price

Professor of Developmental Biology

 

Dr Idoia Quintana Urzainqui

Postdoc, Price lab

 

Miss Brenda Murage

PhD student,  Euan Macdonald Centre

 

Ms Karen Harris

Academic Administrator for the Biomedical Teaching Organisation

 

Mrs Janet Philp

Biomedical Sciences Head of Administration

 

Ms Lee Dolan

Biomedical Sciences Human Resources Manager

 

Mr James Griffiths

Lab manager, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences

 

Ms Sarah Martin

Professional support staff member, BSOC web editor

 

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