Self-assessment Team - Keele University

Self-Assessment Team

Professor Patrick Bailey (Chair)  Dean of Natural Sciences

He came to Keele in January 2008, after a varied academic background. His research has focused on Work on protein mechanisms, most recently on peptide transporters; the synthesis of alkaloids (toxic natural products that often have valuable pharmaceutical properties if used/developed in the right way) and studies on the synthesis and properties of unusual macrocycles. More.

Sue Sherman -  Athena SWAN Champion School of Psychology

Appointed as a lecturer in the School of Psychology in September 2005. Her research is directed at revealing the mechanisms underlying language processing, focusing mainly on how we process words. She is particularly interested in how words are recognised in both the visual and the auditory modalities and in the effects of psycholinguistic variables (such as frequency, age of acquisition and concreteness) and linguistic variables (such as morphology) on the development and operation of these processes. Her research also focuses on aspects of implicit and explicit memory, particularly in the context of false memory for words. More.

Katie Szkornik - Lecturer in Geography, Athena SWAN Champion - SPGS

Appointed lecturer in Physical Geography in January 2007. Her main research interests lie in the field of Holocene sea-level change focussing on the use of diatoms and foraminifera as sea-level indicators and the development, application and assessment of microfossil-based transfer functions for reconstructing past sea-level change. She is also interested in identifying the driving mechanisms behind long-term changes in sea level (testing glacio- hydro- isostatic models). More.

Balvinder Everitt – Equalities and Workforce Planning Manager

Appointed in July 2011 to the post of Equalities and Workforce Planning Manager in Human Resources. She has a background in equalities, having been the Equalities Adviser within Wolverhampton City Council for five years prior to coming to Keele. With a keen interest in equality and diversity (E&D) in education, she spent the last three years working with schools in Wolverhampton to help them move towards compliance with the public sector equality duty under the requirements of the Equality Act 2010.

She has a keen interest in gender equality issues, as they apply to staff and students, and has a breadth of experience of working with children and young people in challenging gender bias and stereotyping in career choices, which she developed during her time spent as Equality and Diversity Manager at Birmingham and Solihull Connexions Partnership.

She is committed to supporting the University to further develop its E&D agenda through developing a range of equality and diversity initiatives including developing staff equality networks, designing and delivering equality and diversity training packages and programmes, and raising awareness and solutions to current equality issues.

Srabasti Chakravorty -  Athena SWAN Champion - Life Sciences

Appointed as a Lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at Keele University in October 2007. Her main interest is in the role of the vascular endothelium in pathology. Recently her interests have focussed on the post-adhesive, phenotypic, functional and transcriptional changes in endothelial cells, induced by Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells, in severe malaria. More.

Nikki Williams- Computing and Mathematics

Appointed as a Learning and Teaching Fellow in the School of Computing and Mathematics in September 2006.  Her research interests include knowledge modelling, computational aesthetics, elicitation techniques and computer science education. More.

Ximena Canter, Athena SWAN Co-ordinator and Faculty Business Manager

Main contact for submission, services self-assessment panel

Email : x.k.canter@keele.ac.uk
Room : Colin Reeves Building, Room 41
Tel + 44 (0) 1782 733344
Fax : +44 (0) 1782 734593