Good News
Professor James Chong selected as an Oracle for Research Fellows
Prof James Chong has recently been selected (as one of three globally) Oracle for Research Fellows for their Spring 2023 cohort. This industrially-funded fellowship includes a cash award of $100,000 (£81,000) and £132,200 of Oracle Cloud compute credits for a project entitled Using shotgun metagenomics data to develop a synthetic anaerobic digestion (AD) community. Although James officially holds the award, the successful application was a team effort driven by Dr Sarah Forrester and Annabel Cansdale, both part of the Centre of Excellence for Anaerobic Digestion (CEAD), who were heavily involved in preparing the application, and who will make use of the Cloud compute award throughout this project.
Jack Stenning has grant award success
Second-year WR student, Jack Stenning has been awarded two grants, an ECR grant from the organisers of the conference IABCR 2023 and a general travel grant from the Biochemical Society. Both total £1,500 and they are being used to fund Jack's travel to the IABCR in Mexico.
Awards
Athena SWAN Gold Award 2019
The Athena SWAN Charter was established in 2005 to encourage and recognise commitment to advancing the careers of women in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine (STEMM) employment in higher education and research.
In May 2015 the charter was expanded to recognise work undertaken in arts, humanities, social sciences, business and law, and in professional and support roles, as well as for trans staff and students. The charter now recognises work undertaken to address gender equality more broadly, and not just barriers to progression that affect women.
The award recognises our strong commitment to the advancement of gender equality: representation, progression and success for all. We strive to ensure that there are no barriers to our staff and students reaching their goals, and we are committed to promoting, celebrating and raising awareness of equality and diversity issues in the widest sense across the department and beyond.
For the latest up-to-date news and upcoming events, please see Biology's gender equality web page.
We have been collecting career trees for some of our staff to demonstrate that careers are often not linear these can be found here Staff Career Trees
Green Impact Awards
Green Impact Awards 2021/22
| Team | Award | Team members |
Keeping L1 Green | Labs Bronze | Laura Clark, Christoph Baumann, Michelle Rudden, Clément Degut, Reyme Herman, Konstantinos Drousiotis, Michael Hodgkinson, Alex Scott |
| M2 Lab | Lab Platinum | Katrin Beßer, Rachael Hallam and Janina Hoßbach, Antonia Feilden |
Biology Teaching Lab Technicians (BTL Technicians) | Lab Platinum | Nicola Charlton, Jen Dyson, Sam Farrell, Deb Malley, Subedar Pandey, Nikki Savvas,Theresa Spayne. Abi Atherton |
Imaging and Cytometry Lab, Bioscience Facility | Lab Gold | Clare Steele King, Rosalin Brolly (Green Impact Project Assistant), Grant Calder, Karen Hogg, Karen Hodgkinson, Jo Marrison, Peter O'Toole, Graeme Park |
| Biology DMT Hub | Office Platinum | Gemma Jacques, Claire Hughes, Gelayol Holme, Angela Lipscomb, Victoria Ott, Louise Simpson |
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