As Deputy President (Welfare) at Imperial College Union (ICU), Anson To has spent the past year creating tangible change for students across Imperial. Inspired by their time as LGBTQ+ Officer, they were elected to the role in the summer of 2025 and have since graduated from their degree in Molecular Bioengineering.
Laurence is a fifth-year medical student and Student Lead for the Underrepresented Student Support Team, which looks after students from care-experienced (foster or adoptive care, children’s care home or kinship care) and estranged backgrounds, as well as young carers and forced migrants.
As Imperial College Union’s Ethics and Environment Officer, Julia Mitra is helping to shape the university’s sustainability landscape – from running policymaking workshops to green careers initiatives. All while juggling the role with her undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering.
With Sustainability Month’s packed programme of events, workshops and fairs now upon us, Julia shares how she has brought her passion for sustainability to life.
Within Imperial’s Department of Brain Sciences, the LGBTQ+ Allies Network has become a growing source of visibility, connection and support. Nan Fletcher-Lloyd, Research Associate, and Tommaso Barba, PhD student, both share how the network has influenced their journeys at Imperial and why creating this space for staff and students matters. (more…)
Amy Lloyd Evans is a fourth-year medical student and Disabilities Officer for Imperial College Union.
Amy said that she first felt able to be open about, and celebrate, her disability when she joined Imperial.
“I’ve always been disabled and, even though I didn’t know it for a lot of my life, it’s shaped all my experiences, beliefs and values. I try my best to be welcoming and inclusive to everyone because I understand the feeling of being othered for something you can’t, or don’t want to, change.
Sana is a Postgraduate Taught student on the MSc Bioscience Futures: Communication, Innovation and Entrepreneurship course in the National Heart and Lung Institute.
The course combines entrepreneurial, communication and commercialisation skills to address global challenges.
Sana enjoys how interactive her course is and says that it bridges the gap between her undergraduate biomedical degree and applications of research in the real world.
Peter Bryan is a fourth-year postgraduate research student in the Department of Bioengineering and co-chair of the Black Doctoral Network.
He is also one of the first recipients of the James West scholarship which aims to address the under-representation of Black and mixed Black Heritage PhD students within the department.
Farwa Abbas is a final year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
It was always her dream to study at Imperial and as the first in her family to pursue higher education abroad and earn a PhD, Farwa has made the most of all the opportunities on offer during her time here as a postgraduate research student.
Lilia and Darren volunteered at Commemoration Day in October 2024, which saw 3500 graduands awarded their degrees. Volunteers are essential to the successful running of the event and take on roles including crowd management around the South Kensington Campus, supporting on the information desks, ticket scanning at the receptions, and stewarding the livestream screening. Details of how to get involved at the 2025 ceremonies can be found at the end of the article.
To mark Women at Imperial Week, the co-Presidents of the Society for Women and Non-Binary Individuals in Physics shared the work they do to create inclusive spaces in the Department of Physics, how they are creating networking opportunities, and why it’s important to highlight underrepresentation in science.