Speakers
Dr Lilian Hunt
Workshop
2020, with all its challenges, has also shined a light on the importance of welfare in our careers and professional lives. Taking care of our career prospects and our welfare as Early Career Scientists is essential for our success. During this ECS symposium we have incorporated the Community Corners from the FEMS Congress in 2019 in the hope we that we can all engage and use these environments to come together to discuss important topics around ECS welfare in academia.
This year we will be delivering Community Corners in order to join different perspectives and knowledge. The Community Corners will be safe environments in which we can all share different resources, opinions, allyship and solutions that will enable the ECS community make educated opinions, use reliable references and hopefully thrive if dealing with any of these topics. Join us in this journey and help us create more environments in which we can continue to discuss similar topics.
All participants are required to read SfAM’s Safe Space policy before attending the community corner conversations.
Lilian received their PhD in Genetics from UCL whilst at The Francis Crick Institute. It was here that they helped bring together Wellcome, The Francis Crick Institute and GSK as founders of EDIS in 2016, and has developed the coalition since.
Lilian runs the EDIS programme of work including managing the coalition, supporting its members, developing its strategy and delivering events and projects. Lilian draws on their research experience, lived experience as a queer person in science and EDI knowledge to drive an evidence-based approach to inclusion.
Chi was elected as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central in 2010. After a degree in electrical engineering in 1987, Chi worked in hardware and software development, product management, market development and strategy for a variety of predominately private sector companies in a number of different countries. During this time Chi also studied for an MBA and gained Chartered Engineering status.
Chi has previously been a shadow minister in the cabinet office, for culture media and sport and for business, innovation and skills. Since October 2016 Chi is a Shadow Minister for Industrial Strategy. Chi is also Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Diversity and Inclusion in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).