About EDICa & our partners

EDI Caucus Management

Professor Kate Sang
EDICa Principal Investigator & Workstream 1 Lead
Professor of Gender & Employment Studies
Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor Jemina Napier
EDICa Deputy Principal Investigator & EDI Lead
Chair of Intercultural Communication,
Associate Principal for Research Culture & People
Heriot-Watt University
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Professor Robert MacIntosh
EDICa Workstream 2 Lead
Pro Vice-Chancellor for Business and Law
Northumbria University
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Dr James Richards
EDICa Workstream 3 Lead
Associate Professor in Human Resource Management
Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
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Dr Catherine Souch
EDICa Engagement Lead
Head of Research and Higher Education
Royal Geographical Society
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Dr Clayton Magill
EDICa Neurodiversity Champion
Associate Professor in the Lyell Centre for Earth & Marine Science & Technology at Heriot-Watt University
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Dr Katrien Dierckx
Project Manager (Maternity cover)
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Lizzie Hodkinson
(ON MATERNITY LEAVE) EDICa Manager
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Fenella Watson
EDICa Senior Project Support Officer
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Rustam Rakhmanov
EDICa Finance Manager
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Rebecca Kennedy
EDICa Intern 13 November 2023 to 12 January 2024 part time.
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Beth Wedgwood
EDICa Intern 16 October to 15 November 2023
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Co Investigators in alphabetical order

Dr Nima Ali
Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management
Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor Jason Arday
Professor of Sociology of Education
Cambridge University
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Associate Professor Mata Ayoub
School Director of Learning & Teaching for the
School of Creative and Cultural Studies
Kingston University London
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Professor Diane Gyi
Professor of Applied Ergonomics and Design
Loughborough University
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Dr Marion Hersh
Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering
University of Glasgow
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Professor Raffaella Ocone
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Heriot-Watt University
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Professor Nilay Shah
Professor of Process Systems Engineering, Head of Department of Chemical Engineering
Imperial College London
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Dr Will Stronge
Director of Research and Policy
Autonomy, a data-driven and consultancy not-for-profit
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Researchers (in alphabetical order)

Chiara Cocco
Heriot-Watt University
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Dr Jos Collins
Heriot-Watt University
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Dr Cat Morgan
Heriot-Watt University
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Dr Siddhartha Saxena
Heriot-Watt University
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Dr Stefanie Schneider
Northumbria University

Our Project Partners

Industrial Decarbonisation Research & Innovation Centre
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York University, Ontario, Canada
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Sustainable Management of Marine Resources (SuMMeR) Centre for Doctoral Training
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National Museums of Scotland
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Our funders


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