Team - EDICa

Meet the team

EDICa is comprised of a multidisciplinary, diverse team of researchers and research support staff.

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EDICa’s Management Team

Prof Kate Sang

EDICa Principal Investigator & Workstream 1 Lead

Professor, Heriot-Watt University

Prof Jemina Napier

EDICa Deputy Principal Investigator & EDI Lead

Professor, Heriot-Watt University

Prof Robert MacIntosh

EDICa Workstream 2 Lead

Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research & Innovation, University of the
West of Scotland

Prof James Richards

EDICa Workstream 3 Lead

Professor, Heriot-Watt University

Dr Catherine Souch

EDICa Engagement Lead

Head of Research and Higher Education
Royal Geographical Society

Dr Clayton Magill

EDICa Neurodiversity Champion

Associate Professor,
Heriot-Watt University

Lizzie Hodkinson

EDICa Manager

Heriot-Watt University

Fenella Watson

Senior Project Support Officer & Comms Officer
Heriot-Watt University

Freddy Makuwa

Finance Manager

Heriot-Watt University

Beth Wedgwood

EDICa Intern 16 Oct – 15 Nov ’23

Research Assistant since Nov ’23
Heriot-Watt University

Rebecca Kennedy

EDICa Intern 13 November 2023 to 12 January 2024 part time

Heriot-Watt University

Co-Investigators in alphabetical order

Dr Nima Ali

Asst Prof in Human Resource Management, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University

Prof Jason Arday

Prof of Sociology of Education, Cambridge University

Associate Professor Mata Ayoub

School Dir of Learning & Teaching for the School of Creative & Cultural Studies, Kingston University London

Prof Diane Gyi

Professor of Applied Ergonomics and Design, Loughborough University

Dr Marion Hersh

Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow

Prof Raffaella Ocone

Prof of Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University

Prof Nilay Shah

Prof of Process Systems Engineering, Head of Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London

Dr Will Stronge

Director of Research & Policy at Autonomy, a data-driven and consultancy not-for-profit

Researchers (in alphabetical order)

Chiara Cocco

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Heriot-Watt University

Dr Jos Collins

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Heriot-Watt University

Dr Dong Lin

Postdoctoral Research Associate – from Sep ’24

Heriot-Watt University

Dr Cat Morgan

Postdoctoral Research Associate – Jan ’23-Aug ’24

Heriot-Watt University

Dr Siddhartha Saxena

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Heriot-Watt University

Dr Stefanie Schneider

Postdoctoral Research Associate (.5)

University of the West of Scotland

Also Lecturer in International Business at Northumbria University

Dr Anjali Mazumder

AI and Justice and Human Rights Theme Lead

The Turing Institute

Anjali Mazumder is the Theme Lead on AI and Justice & Human Rights. Her work focuses on empowering government and non-profit organisations by co-designing and developing responsible and inclusive data and AI methods, tools and frameworks for safeguarding people from harm – particularly those most vulnerable, building resilient institutions and systems, and accelerating the opportunity for inclusive, fair and just services, systems, economies, and communities. She is passionate about fostering multi-disciplinary collaborations and multi-sector partnerships to co-create pathways for innovation that improves services, policy, and actions to safeguard human rights and address humanitarian challenges. Her research interests are in developing integrated Bayesian decision support systems to manage uncertainty with complex data structures, value of evidence, causal reasoning in the wild; expert judgement; detecting bias and algorithmic fairness; socio-technical solutions to harnessing multiple disparate sources of data whilst enabling responsible and inclusive data and AI principles and practices; communicating uncertainty and risk; and safeguarding rights and the Rule of Law.

She has over 15 years’ experience tackling fundamental statistical problems of societal importance – human rights, justice, security, the Law, education, public health & safety – working at the interface of research, policy and practice in the UK, the US, and Canada, fostering multi-disciplinary and cross-sector collaborations. She was appointed to Canada’s National DNA Databank Advisory Committee (2012-2018) and currently serves on the UK Forensic Science Regulator’s fingerprint interpretation subgroup, and the senior management board of the UK’s Policy and Evidence Centre for Modern Slavery and Human Rights. She has also served the Royal Statistical Society in a variety of ways, most recently appointed to the Statistics & Law Section and the Data Science Section committees. She holds a doctorate in Statistics from the University of Oxford and two masters’ degrees in Measurement and Evaluation, and Statistics from the University of Toronto.

Dr Jenny Douglas

Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies

Dr Jenny Douglas is passionate about the health and wellbeing of black women as evidenced through her research and public engagement. She has a PhD in Women’s Studies and completed her doctoral thesis on cigarette smoking and identity among African-Caribbean young women in contemporary British society. This research brought together two divergent research traditions: medical public health and health promotion approaches with sociological approaches to researching cigarette smoking. This interdisciplinary research approach brings together sociology, public health and women’s studies. Her commitment to comparative approaches finds expression not only in working across disciplinary and national boundaries, but also across theoretical and methodological traditions. Her research is both varied and wide ranging spanning 30 years on issues of race, health, gender and ethnicity. The key theme unifying her research and activism is intersectionality – exploring how ‘race’, class and gender affect particular aspects of African – Caribbean women’s health.

Jenny Douglas established and chairs the Black Women’s Health and Wellbeing Research Network. (www.open.ac.uk/black-womens-health-and-wellbeing) and her ambition is to establish a research institute on the health and wellbeing of black women. She is a contributing author to ‘Inside the Ivory Tower’.

Jenny Douglas is a Senior Lecturer in Health Promotion in the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies at the Open University. She has a PhD in Women’s Studies from the University of York, an MA in Sociological Research in Health Care from the University of Warwick, an MSc in Environmental Pollution Control from the University of Leeds and a BSc (Hons) in Microbiology and Virology from the University of Warwick. She is module lead of the K311 – ‘Promoting Public Health’, is an honorary member of the Faculty of Public Health and is a director of the UK Public Health Register.

Jenny is a Research Affiliate of the Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada and a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Psychology at The George Washington University, Washington D.C., USA.