The Department of Materials aims to provide a supportive environment that enables all staff and students to succeed, ensuring that everybody is treated with equality and dignity, without regard to gender identity, race, colour, creed, ancestry, political beliefs, religion, marital status, disability, age, or sexual orientation. The EDC committee advises and supports the Department in this mission.
The committee’s work is guided by the Imperial College London’s EDI Strategy and core policies including “Equal Opportunities”, “Behavioural Expectations” and “Imperial Expectations”.
The EDC committee will:
• Examine systems and processes in the Department to ensure they are fair, transparent, communicated and accessible.
• Monitor the recruitment and progression of all staff and students, identify opportunities for improvement and propose actions to achieve this.
• Ensure the Department continues its commitment to advance diversity and equality and enhance working environment
• Consider issues of strategic relevance, plan how best to address issues of concern and how best to optimise and disseminate current good practice
• Ensure that consultation leads to positive changes to departmental practices that are communicated to all staff and students.
EDC Committee members in Materials
Kayleigh Brewer
Kayleigh Brewer
Communications Officer
Dr Andrew Cairns
Dr Andrew Cairns
Research Fellows representative
Dorothy Chan
Dorothy Chan
Technicians representative
Dr Eleonora D'Elia
Dr Eleonora D'Elia
Teaching staff representative
Dr Liz Elvidge
Dr Liz Elvidge
Imperial College Athena SWAN representative
Professor Sandrine Heutz
Professor Sandrine Heutz
Academic staff representative, Head of Department
Elaine Kinoshita-Li
Elaine Kinoshita-Li
Undergraduate Student Representative
Ramin Jannat
Ramin Jannat
Postgraduate student representative
Ziyad Malik
Ziyad Malik
Undergraduate Student Representative
Dr Anthony Onwuil
Dr Anthony Onwuil
PDRA representative
Dr Stella Pedrazzini
Dr Stella Pedrazzini
PDRA and Fellows Champion
Jingdong Xu
Jingdong Xu
Postgraduate student representative
Dr Priya Saravanapavan
Dr Priya Saravanapavan
Departmental member Rep on College Athena SAT Committee
Donya Sharifi
Donya Sharifi
Wellbeing Representative
Training opportunities in the FoE
Black Lives Matter Survey
In Spring 2021, we surveyed staff and students in the department, with the aim to identify anti-racist action that could be taken to improve the experience of Black members in our community. View our Black Lives Matter Survey results