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Equality, diversity and inclusion team

The School has established a strong and functional self-assessment team (SAT). The goal is to advance a wider range of equality topics.

The team undertakes a thorough and constant self-assessment which includes:

  • Identifying challenges and opportunities with regard to equality, diversity and inclusion, and responding to them
  • Evaluating policies, practices and activities
  • Establishing equality-based priority areas
  • Developing action plans and monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of actions undertaken.

Each individual feels passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion activities and is committed to making an impact within the Faculty of Science and Engineering.

Members of the self-assessment team

Dr Munira Raja - Committe Chair

  • Lecturer in Electrical Engineering and Electronics
  • School lead and member of the steering group for Athena SWAN 
  • Member of the search committee on Academic Recruitment 
  • MEng group project coordinator 
  • Member of the Black and Minority Ethnic Staff Network (BAME).

Dr Blaine Keetch - Committee Deputy Chair

  • University Teacher in the Computer Science department
  • Previous experience as a listening volunteer for Samaritans and as a Youth Mentor for The Princes Trust

Daniel Williams - Committee secretary

  • Enjoys hiking, reading, playing badminton

Jane Gallagher

  • School Management Services Team Leader 
  • Member of the Athena SWAN School SAT from the onset 
  • Family-Friendly Adviser and trained Mental Health First Aider 
  • Parent with two children, one with special needs.

Dr Floriana Grasso

  • Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Director of Online Learning for Computer Science
  • Carer.

Dr Kai Hoettges 

  • Lecturer in Electrical Engineering & Electronics
  • Final year undergraduate project coordinator 
  • Parent with two daughters.

Flávia Isabel de Araújo e Castro Alves

  • PhD Student in the Department of Computer Science
  • Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Member of the Postgraduate (Research) Staff-Student Liaison Committee.

Ms Cynthia Wang

  • Project Manager
  • UK-Jiangsu World Class University Consortium.

Ms Alison Goodyear

  • School PGR Student Experience Administrator
  • Former Chartered Accountant and former Treasurer of a number of committees
  • Single parent of two children.

Mrs Fatma Elhouni

  • Graduate Teaching Assistant
  • PhD student in the High-Frequency group in the Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Parent of one son.

 Dr Jeffrey Ray

  • Lecturer in Computer Science
  • Research interests in the Cyber security, Natural language Processing, Big Data Machine Learning Neural Networks
  • Fellow of the higher Education Academy.

Ms Safaa Fallatah

  • PhD Student in Computer Science.

Dr Waleed Al-Nuaimy,

Senior Lecturer in Electrical Engineering & Electronics.

Dr Ravi Kant Rai

Postdoc.

Evelyn Amu

Postgraduate taught student.

Hamza Taher

Undergraduate student.

Benjamin Smith

Computer Science PhD student.

Ali Ibrahim

Undergraduate student.