Our team is made up of enthusiastic champions representing academics and professional services staff across all career levels and all areas of the Faculty. We are enthusiastic and motivated and meet regularly – normally once a month - to look at feedback, review progress and propose and implement actions that will benefit both men and women.
We communicate informally through outreach to our colleagues, through our Faculty communications mechanisms (for example the Faculty newsletter) and we run the Faculty Athena Swan surveys and focus groups.
Our Chair reports direct to our Faculty senior management team.
Professor Susan Brooks
Director of Researcher Development, Professor in Cell Biology, and Chair of the Faculty Athena Swan team
- Joined as Senior Lecturer in 1995
- Appointed as the University’s Research Training Coordinator, 0.5FTE, in 2006
- Promoted to Reader in 2010
- Promoted to Professor in 2017
- Partner is a medical researcher in London-both have elderly parents.
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Alfred Veldhuis
PhD research student
- PhD research student in cognitive neuroscience, funded by a Nigel Groome/Oxford Brookes University 150th Anniversary Studentship in the Department of Psychology, Health and Professional Development
- Alfred is also a part-time demonstrator in psychology, assisting in statistics and providing support for neurophysiological experiments.
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Professor Kadhim Munira
Professor and Head of the Radiation Biology Research Group
- Born in Baghdad, Iraq, and gained a 1st degree in life sciences from Baghdad University
- Moved with husband and 2-year- old daughter to the UK and achieved a PhD from Swansea University
- Worked for several years as Postdoc research assistant at Swansea University, and joined MRC-Harwell, Oxfordshire in 1990
- Joined Oxford Brookes University and in 2007 and was promoted to Professor of Radiation Biology.
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Jane Butcher
Equality Diversity and Inclusion Adviser for Staff
- Joined in 2015, works FT. Public and third sector equality projects and women in STEMM initiatives.
- FT and PT and remote working and career break experience
- Ongoing distance eldercare
- Jane is our Consultant from the in the Directorate of Human Resources.
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Abigayle Langford
Research Administrator
Craig Churchley
Programme Administrator
Ricardo de São João
Research Grants Officer
Gillian Jones
Lecturer in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
Elaine Dagnall
HR Business Partnership Manager