Professional Activities
Selected Professional Activities
External Administrative or Committee Role
- Breast Cancer Now - Grants Committee, Invited (Breast Cancer Now, 2024 - present) (External Administrative or Committee Role)
Internal Administrative or Committee Role
- Academic Lead for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing (School / Institute, 2020 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
Professional Body Membership
- Faculty of 1000 (Full Faculty Member, 2020 - present) (Professional Body Membership)
Conference Roles
- Invited Mentor - OARSI Young Investigator mentorship Scheme, by Invitation (2012 - 2013)
Editorships
- Current Research in Physiology (Invited Editorial Board member, 2020 - present)
Examination Roles
- University of Manchester, PhD (2023)
- University of Liverpool, PhD (2023)
- William Harvey Research Institute, PhD (2023)
- Wellcome Centre for Cell-Matrix Research, PhD (2023)
- Quadram Institute, PhD (2022)
- University of Liverpool, PhD (2021)
- University of Liverpool, PhD (2020)
- University of Kent, PhD (2020)
- University of Manchester, UK / Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Singapore, PhD (2018 - 2019)
- Kings College London, PhD (2018)
- CRUK Edinburgh Centre, University of Edinburgh, PhD (2018)
- Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL, PhD (2018)
- Dept of Bioengineering, Imperial College, PhD (2017 - 2018)
- University of Liverpool, PhD (2017)
- Imperial College London, UK, PhD (2017)
- University of Southampton, UK, PhD (2016)
- Queen Mary University of London, UK, PhD (2016)
- University of Turku, Finland, PhD Review (International) (2016)
- Cancer Research UK Beatson Institute, University of Glasgow, UK, PhD (2015)
- University of Torino, Italy, PhD Review (International) (2015)
External Administrative or Committee Roles
- Breast Cancer Now - Grants Committee, Invited (Breast Cancer Now, 2024 - present)
- British Council/Newton Fund - Biological and Medical Sciences Grants Panel (British Council, 2015 - present)
- AcMedSci Task Force report: "Increasing engagement and support of early career researchers", Invited (Academy of Medical Sciences, 2012)
- AcMedSci Working Party report: "Review of Post Docs’ and PhD students’ attitudes to careers in industry", Invited (Academy of Medical Sciences, 2006)
Grant Application Assessments
- External Post-submission (Breast Cancer Now, 2024 - present)
Internal Administrative or Committee Roles
- Academic Lead for Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Wellbeing (School / Institute, 2020 - present)
- Institute Education Committee Member - EDIW Lead (School / Institute, 2020 - present)
- ITM Research Development Committee (School / Institute, 2017 - 2020)
- ITM Athena SWAN Committee (School / Institute, 2014 - 2020)
- ITM GM committee (School / Institute, 2015 - 2020)
- Wellcome PhD Programme Committee (School / Institute, 2018 - present)
- Wellcome PhD Programme - Academic Lead for Wellbeing & Mental Health (School / Institute, 2018 - present)
- Wellcome Trust PhD Programme selection panel (School / Institute, 2016 - 2018)
- Cellular and Molecular Physiology Seminar Committee (Department, 2016 - 2020)
Media Appearances
- Afternoon/Evening News Interview, Capital FM Liverpool (Invited, August 2017)
- Afternoon/Evening News Interview, Heart FM Manchester (Invited, August 2017)
- Breakfast News Interview, BBC Radio Merseyside (Invited, August 2017)
Professional Body Memberships
- Faculty of 1000 (Full Faculty Member, 2020 - present)
- British Society for Matrix Biology (Member, 2017 - present)
- British Society for Cell Biology (Member, 2003 - present)
- Biochemical Society (Member, 2003 - present)
- British Association for Cancer Research (Member, 1999 - present)
- Faculty of 1000 (Biology) (Associate Member, 2009 - 2013)
- Higher Education Academy (Fellow, 2017 - present)