Funding successes: Q3 2024
Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.* (more…)
Blog posts
Staff Profile: Dr Chee Yeen Fung, Preparedness for Practice Development Lead
Dr Chee Yeen Fung is the Preparedness for Practice Development and Pre-Foundation Assistantship Lead at the Imperial College School of Medicine. In addition to her work at Imperial, Dr Fung also holds national educational and leadership roles with Health Education England, the Medical School Council and the General Medical Council, working on various educational leadership, assessment and widening participation projects.
In this interview, Chee Yeen discusses how her career has led to teaching, her passion for widening participation in education and her recent President’s Medal.
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Funding successes: Q2 2024 (April-June)
Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.* (more…)
Staff profile: Dr Catherine Kibirige, Research Manager
Catherine Kibirige is our newly appointed Research Manager for the Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction, as well as the Department of Immunology and Inflammation. Here she talks about her career journey and what she is looking forward to during her time in the department.
Meet MDR’s mental health first aiders – Dr Joram Posma
To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, we spoke with MDR’s mental health first aiders about their role and the support they can offer. In our first profile, we hear from Dr Joram Posma, a Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Informatics from the Section of Bioinformatics. (more…)
Meet MDR’s mental health first aiders – Dr Caroline Sands, Dr Jia Li and Kate Chappell
To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, we spoke with MDR’s mental health first aiders about their role and the support they can offer. In our final profile, we hear from Dr Caroline Sands, Dr Jia Li and Kate Chappell. Caroline is a Research Associate at the Phenome Centre, Jia is a Reader in Biological Chemistry in the Section of Nutrition and Kate is a technician in the Phenome Centre. (more…)
Meet MDR’s mental health first aiders – Shazi Singh
To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week 2024, we spoke with MDR’s mental health first aiders about their role and the support they can offer. In our second profile, we hear from Shazi Singh, a Personal Assistant and Academic Secretary in the Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology & Metabolism. (more…)
Funding successes: Q1 2024 (Jan-March)
Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.* (more…)
Funding successes: Q4 2023 (Oct-Dec)
Well done to all Principal Investigators and teams in the Department who have recently been awarded research grants. Here is our quarterly round-up of funding successes.*
My experience taking shared parental leave in MDR – Dr Edward Chambers
“Shared parental leave gave us the flexibility to spend quality time with our children without feeling like you were abandoning your students and colleagues.”
We spoke to MDR’s Dr Edward Chambers about his experience of taking shared parental leave and the opportunities it provided in terms of work-life balance and flexibility.