Gender re-balance: NHLI Women in Science Wikithon

At the end of June, I hosted the first National Heart and Lung Institute’s virtual Wikithon. The aim was to train participants on how to write and edit Wikipedia pages, with a view to increase the number of pages dedicated to women. Currently, less than 25% of all wiki pages on scientists are about women. […]

Celebrating the International Day of Girls and Women in Science

On 11th February 2020, we celebrated the International Day of Girls and Women in Science. Imperial women scientists and leaders in STEM, shared their career paths, role models, successes, failures, internationally recognised expertise and – most importantly – their love of science with over 350 school girls. Speakers shared pieces of advice they would give […]

Imperial ‘SAID’ Seminars- Scientists Advocating for Inclusivity and Diversity

During the spring term of 2020 ImperialSAID seminars (scientists advocating for inclusivity and diversity) will launch. ImperialSAID will be the largest collaborative seminar series created for and delivered by the Imperial College London community, focused on raising awareness of biases in STEM to redefine workplace culture within the university. Every fortnight, a one hour talk […]

How to engage the public and work with the media on human infection challenge studies: an LMIC focus

The HIC-Vac Network was established in 2017 to bring together researchers who work on human infection challenge studies – a study during which volunteers are purposefully exposed to a pathogen in a safe and managed way, with healthcare support, to accelerate the development of vaccines against pathogens of high global impact. Funded by the MRC […]

Success for NHLI at the European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology Conference

This year’s European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) in Lisbon, Portugal, was an exciting congress for the Immunomodulation and Tolerance Group (ITG). Dr Mohamed Shamji group cutting-edge research was well-received and highlighted with each member presenting their cutting-edge research, pioneering the future of allergen immunotherapy (AIT). Over 8600 clinicians, researchers and allied health […]

Taking science to Parliament for STEM for Britain 2019

I am a final year PhD student (in my final months!) within the British Heart Foundation Centre of Research Excellence, co-supervised by Professor Nadia Rosenthal and Professor Molly Stevens and working on biomaterials for cardiac regeneration. On Wednesday 13 March I got the once-in-a-lifetime chance to present my research in Parliament. When I heard that […]

Report: Inaugural Health Protection Research Unit PhD Academy

By Lareb Dean & Kirsty Meldrum On the 30th and 31st January 2017 the inaugural Health Protection Research Unit (HPRU) PhD Academy was held at the University of Liverpool in London. The National Institute for Health Research created the HPRUs with a view for collaborative research between universities and Public Health England (PHE). The event […]

NHLI New Scientists Day 2016

The annual NHLI New Scientists Day took place on Tuesday 19th of April and brought together staff and students from NHLI and beyond to hear about the exciting research our new academics are doing. All three speakers – Dr Jenni Quint (Clinical Senior Lecturer in Respiratory Epidemiology), Dr James Ware (Clinical Senior Lecturer in Genomic […]

Challenges facing society and science in the 21st Century

Last month I attended the annual Cara Science & Civilisation Lecture at The Royal Society, given this year by Lord Martin Rees. He focused on the challenges facing society and science in the 21st Century from climate change to artificial intelligence. Couching scientists firmly as members of society, rather than separate from it, he used […]