UK Young Academy appoints new members
32 emerging leaders from across the UK have been selected as the newest members of the UK Young Academy, a network for early career researchers and professionals established to help tackle local and global issues and promote meaningful change.
From policy to engineering, education, archaeology and the creative industries, the new cohort of members come from a wide range of sectors and have each made significant contributions to their field.
The UK Young Academy will provide them with a forum to exchange ideas, share expertise and participate in local and global policy discussions with the aim of tackling challenges based on areas that matter to them.
Work programmes and initiatives led by members are already underway, with the aim to address the young academy’s strategic priorities set out in its first year. The first of the young academy’s major projects, to launch later this year, will be a programme to support researchers and professionals at risk, both in the UK and globally.
The UK Young Academy has been established as an interdisciplinary collaboration with the Academy of Medical Sciences, British Academy, Learned Society of Wales, Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Irish Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Society. It joins the global initiative of Young Academies, with the UK Young Academy becoming the 50th to join the Young Academy movement.
The new members take up their posts from 19 March 2024, and membership runs for five years.
Full list of members
- William Allen
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford and Nuffield College - Joseph Bentley
Managing Director, ACT Medical - Sifeng Bi
Lecturer (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering), University of Strathclyde - Precious Chatterje-Doody
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Studies, The Open University - Jennifer Clarke
Operations Leader for the Chief Scientist Directorate, NPL Management Limited - Daniele Cotton
Doctoral Research Fellow (Bioengineering) and Training Clinician (Oncology), University of Oxford - Arthur Dudney
Director of Cultural Programmes, Arcadia - Steven Egan
Program Associate for Washington Ireland Program Academy and Forum programs, Washington Ireland Program - Sophie Frost
Lecturer in Creative Leadership, University of Creative Arts - Nikita Hari
Head of Teaching and Design Support Group, Department of Engineering, University of Oxford - Henry Ibitolu
PhD Researcher (Future Cities Engineering), The University of Edinburgh/University of Glasgow - Andrew Jupp
Assistant Professor in Main-Group Chemistry, University of Birmingham - Hiba Khan
Chief Revenue Officer, Medics.Academy - Antonia Liguori
Professor of Participatory Storytelling and Public Policy, Teesside University, School of Social Sciences, Humanities & Law - Alexander Lloyd
Research Fellow (in Clinical, Education and Health Psychology), University College London - Emily Lowthian
Lecturer in Education, Swansea University - Catherine Manning
Lecturer in Psychology, University of Reading - Síle Molloy
Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, St George’s, University of London - Imrose Muhit
Lecturer in Sustainable Infrastructure Engineering, Teesside University - Christoph Nehrbass-Ahles
Senior Scientist, National Physical Laboratory - Eóin Parkinson
Lecturer in Biological Archaeology, University College Cork & Queen’s University Belfast - Marloes Peeters
Professor in Engineering Biology, University of Manchester - William Reynolds
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, PhysicsX - Sandeep Sandhu
Head of Stakeholder Relationships, Innovate UK Business Connect - Dhruti Shah
Creative Lead, Have You Thought About - Timor Sharan
Senior Research Associate, Centre on Armed Groups - Clare Siviter-Groschwald
Associate Professor in French Theatre, University of Bristol - Priyanka Surana
Senior Scientific Manager, Wellcome Sanger Institute - Rebecca Tapscott
Lecturer (Politics Department), University of York - Marc Tilley
Humanitarian Affairs Adviser, Freelance / Global Centre for Climate Mobility - Rachel Tough
Doctoral Researcher (School of Global Development), University of East Anglia - Kevin Woollard
Senior Director, AstraZeneca
