Are you considering an academic career?
In this session we will hear from a small panel of early- to mid-career academics about their day-to-day roles, how they manage a work-life balance, and opportunities for progression.
This is a chance to ask questions and generate discussion on many aspects of being an academic.
Lorena Sanchez
Dr. Lorena Sanchez Tyson is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of Hertfordshire’s School of Law and Education. Her research focuses on education and international development. This is Lornas first academic appointment after leaving her postdoctoral position at the Dept of Education here in Oxford last year.
Laurence Roope
Dr Laurence Roope, Larry, is a senior researcher at the Health Economics Research Centre, research interests lie broadly within development economics, with particular interests in poverty, inequality, health, and human capital. He has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research and as an econometrician in the private sector.
Liz Stokes
Dr Liz Stokes is a senior researcher at the Health Economics Research Centre in 2009 having worked at Keele University (2001-2007) and Liverpool John Moores University (2008-2009) and in this time completed an MSc in Medical Statistics at the University of Leicester. Liz’s research interests lie in economic evaluation and particularly in costing within economic evaluations. She has worked on many cost-effectiveness analyses alongside randomised controlled trials in areas such as blood transfusion, and cardiac and thoracic surgery, and has used decision modelling to assess the cost-effectiveness of additional tests to guide treatment decisions for several cardiac populations. Liz completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford in 2016 on the costs and cost-effectiveness of transfusion management strategies in cardiac surgery. Liz is a Research Advisor for the Research Design Service – South Central
Vojtech Prazak
Dr Vojtech Prazak is currently a visiting researcher based in the Dept of Biochemistry and a Postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute of Virology in Hamburg having completed his DPhil in Oxford at the Dept of Structural Biology. His research interests are focused on the use of Cryo-ET to investigate host-pathogen interactions of a diverse array that includes viruses, bacteria, plasmodium and most recently oomycetes.
Emma Silvester
Dr Emma Silvester completed a DPhil in the Dept Physics, followed by Postdocs in the Depts of Structural Biology and then Biochemistry. In 2023 Emma won a Wellcome Early-Career Award investigating DNA nanostructures as tags for cryo-electron tomography. These nanostructures are highly visible and address one of the significant challenges of studying complex biological systems in 3D by cryo-electron tomography: identifying specific molecules in crowded environments. Emma has validated this approach on vesicles, viruses and cell surfaces, and her research now focuses on intracellular applications.
