Professional Activities
Selected Professional Activities
Conference Role
- Teaching at the Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course in the Pasteur Institute (Paris, France, 2023) (Conference Role)
- 5th European NF-kB Subunit Workshop, by Invitation (Porto, Portugal, 2022) (Conference Role)
Internal Administrative or Committee Role
- ILCMS Postgraduate Teaching Lead (School / Institute, 2023 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
- Academic Lead - Tissue Culture (School / Institute, 2022 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
- Independent Progress Assessment (IPAP) (Department, 2019 - 2023) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
- REF 2021 PLANNING GROUP FOR UNIT OF ASSESSMENT 6 (Faculty, 2019 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
Professional Body Membership
- British Society for Developmental Biology (Member, 2012 - present) (Professional Body Membership)
Conference Roles
- Teaching at the Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course in the Pasteur Institute (Paris, France, 2023)
- BSDB 2023 (Sheffield, 2023)
- Mercia Stem Cell Alliance (Nottingham, 2023)
- Seminar in University of Lancaster, by Invitation (University of Lancaster, 2022)
- BSMB Meeting, by Invitation (Liverpool, 2022)
- Teaching at the Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course in the Pasteur Institute, by Invitation (Paris, France, 2022)
- 5th European NF-kB Subunit Workshop, by Invitation (Porto, Portugal, 2022)
- Joint IBIN/3DbioNet Meeting, by Invitation (London, 2020)
- Postdoc Masterclass, by Invitation (2018 - 2019)
- 3DBioNet workshop, by Invitation (2018 - 2019)
- Teaching at the Advances in Stem Cell Biology Course in the Pasteur Institute, by Invitation (2019)
- CamBioScience: Discovering Gastruloids, by Invitation (Cambridge, 2019)
Editorships
- BMC Developmental Biology (Associate Editor, 2019 - present)
Event Roles
- CamBioScience Gastruloid Course (Workshop, Cambridge, 2019)
Examination Roles
- University of Edinburgh, PhD Examination (2024)
- University of Liverpool, PhD Examination (2024)
- University of Manchester, PhD Examination (2024)
- Edge Hill University, Masters (MRes) (MPhil, 2024)
- University of Liverpool, PhD Examination (2023)
- University of Leicester, PhD Examination (2022)
- University of Cambridge, Masters (MPhil, 2020 - present)
- University of Liverpool, MRes Clinical Sciences (MPhil, 2020 - present)
External Administrative or Committee Roles
- NC3Rs Project Grant Assessment Committee, Invited (National Centre for the Replacement Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research, 2023 - 2026)
- BSDB Committee Member, Invited (British Society for Developmental Biology, 2023 - 2025)
- Co-Supervisor for PhD Student (Chester), Invited (University of Chester, 2020 - 2023)
Grant Application Assessments
- External Post-submission (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2023)
- External Post-submission (European Commission, 2023)
- External Post-submission (Hong Kong Jockey Club, 2022)
- External Post-submission (Medical Research Council (MRC), 2022)
- External Post-submission (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2021)
- Internal Pre-submission (European Commission, 2021)
- Internal Pre-submission (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), 2020)
- Internal Pre-submission (Wellcome Trust, 2020)
- Internal Pre-submission (Medical Research Council (MRC), 2020 - present)
Internal Administrative or Committee Roles
- ILCMS Postgraduate Teaching Lead (School / Institute, 2023 - present)
- Academic Lead - Tissue Culture (School / Institute, 2022 - present)
- Independent Progress Assessment (IPAP) (Department, 2019 - 2023)
- REF 2021 PLANNING GROUP FOR UNIT OF ASSESSMENT 6 (Faculty, 2019 - present)
Media Appearances
- People behind the papers, The Node (Invited, November 2017)
- Self-organising ‘gastruloids’ mimic early development of mouse embryos, NC3Rs Website (Invited, October 2018)
Professional Body Memberships
- Higher Education Academy (Fellow (FHEA), 2021 - present)
- The Royal Society of Biology (Member (MRSB); Chartered Biologist (CBiol), 2010 - present)
- British Society for Developmental Biology (Member, 2012 - present)
Publication Reviews
- Reviewer, Invited (Scientific Reports, Pre-publication, 2022)
- Reviewer (Development, Pre-publication, 2022)
- Peer reviewer, Invited (BioEssays, Pre-publication, 2020 - present)
- Reviewer, Invited (Stem Cell Research and Therapy, Pre-publication, 2019 - present)