Dr Bethan Murphy is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge. She is studying the molecular machinery required for RNA silencing, a form of post-transcriptional gene expression regulation, in a species of fungus. She carries out a lot of next generation sequencing of the genomes of fungal organisms, as well as sequencing of RNA molecules. This project requires a lot of molecular biology work, as well as large amounts of bioinformatics and data analysis. She is working towards a permanent research position, perhaps in bioinformatics.

Before coming to the UK, Ilkem undertook research internships at University of Minnesota Medical School, USA (2015), the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Institute (2014) and  Genetics and Cytogenetics Laboratory at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Medical School in Turkey (2013). She has experience as a Research Assistant and Teaching Assistant in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics at Koc University, Turkey. Ilkem is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge, working on a project entitled "Building a 'cochlea-on-a-chip' bioelectric model".

Before Cambridge, Sally completed her undergraduate studies at Princeton University with honours, where she studied English and Global Health & Health Policy. After Princeton, she moved to New York City to work as a program coordinator for a non-profit organization targeting childhood literacy in underserved communities. While in New York, she completed Columbia University’s Postbac Pre-medical Program and began working as a tutor and educational consultant. Sally is now part of a research team of medical sociologists at the University of Cambridge who study diagnostic innovation in the realm of oncology.

Henrietta earned her Bachelor’s degree in Hungary, before studying for her MBA and Postgraduate certificate in Teaching in the United Kingdom. She’s currently a module leader and associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University, as well as member of the Association of MBAs. Henrietta has been involved in a number of entrepreneurship research projects, and hopes to one day achieve an excellence in teaching.

Prior to studying in the UK, Prince was educated in Zimbabwe and the USA. He has undertaken several internships including at Cummins Inc. (2014, 2015), Genentech (2016 ), and Distributed Power Africa (2019). During these posts he analysed and generated actionable insights from over 500,000 data samples for power management of a telecoms network. Prince is currently in the final year of his DPhil at the University of Oxford, for which he was awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. He is based in the Indoor Positioning and Cyber-physical Systems Group, Department of Science, where his role entails researching distributed communication for resource constrained systems. He is also the COO of Emergination Africa, (Harare, Zimbabwe), managing a team that is developing Africa's future human capital through offering demand driven skills and competencies training.

Dr Kieron Winn read English at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was subsequently awarded a doctorate for a thesis on Herbert Read and T. S. Eliot. His poems have appeared widely in magazines, anthologies, and on the BBC. He lives in Oxford, where he is a freelance teacher of literature and creative writing. He has twice won, in 2013 and 2007, the University of Oxford’s most valuable literary award, the English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize. He is a poet and teacher, with a teaching career spanning over 25 years.

Previously a Lecturer in Constitutional Law and Human Rights, Teresa also has experience as a private law tutor for international students at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has a significant publications record including one monograph in Comparative Constitutional Law, a book in Human Rights, as well as a large number of articles. As evidence of her research esteem, she was the winner of the “Estimulo” prize in Human Rights Law granted by the Argentina Academy of Law and she also won the “Accésit” prize in Constitutional Law, granted by the Argentine Bar Association. Currently an independent researcher advising law firms, academics and public bodies on comparative law, Teresa is a member of the International Constitutional Law Association, Argentina Association of Constitutional Law and City of Buenos Aires Bar Association. 

Dr Parikh has over 10 years of university education, where he’s specialised in Mathematics, Physics and Engineering. On top of this, he has over 16 years experience as a teacher, where he has held positions at a number of Oxford schools and as a lecturer at Brunel University in London. Dr Parikh holds a number of academic and research achievements, including: PhD - Stress analysis in superconducting wires; “An etching method based axisymmetric solution for the determination of residual stresses in long fibre reinforced metal matrix composites ”, Journal of composite materials, Vol 48, Issue 19, 2014; “Residual stress and strain distribution in Nb3Sn superconducting wire at the room and operating temperature, 4K”, Superconductor Science and Technology (in process). He is also a member of several professional institutions, including STEMNET, National Association of Mathematics Advisers (NAMA), National Centre of Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), and others.

Dr David Cole has previously held lectureships and research posts at a number of academic institutions, including Pembroke College (University of Oxford), Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, (University of Oxford) Jeremiah Horrocks Institute (University of Central Lancashire), and the University of Leicester. His research has involved investigationing the distribution of dark matter in dwarf galaxies, modelling the merger of the Milky Way and M31, investigating the formation of nuclear star clusters and black holes at the centre of galaxies, modelling the matter distribution in the Milky Way, and investigating the formation and evolution of the Milky Way. He has published a number of papers in major scientific journals and presented his research at conferences around the world. His papers have over 300 citations.

Before university, Senthil Vasan was educated in India, where he undertook a medical internship at Christian Medical College, Vellore. Since qualifying, he has been a Consultant Endocrinologist in India and a Tutor at Pembroke College, Oxford. His academic achievements include being a recipient of British Heart Foundation and Medical Research Council grants to study cardiovascular diabetes risk in Asian Indians and Africans in comparison with Caucasians from the UK. Senthil Vasan is currently a Senior research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Churchill Hospital. He leads projects relating to prevention of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the UK, Africa and India. His research aims at finding risk factors that places an individual at increased susceptibility to diabetes and cardiovascular disease.