IAS News
IAS Early Career Fellow Dr Hande 脟ay谋r contributed a review to the British Psychological Society鈥檚 Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP).
The review offers a reflective account of ECQI 2025, illustrating how the conference foregrounded practices of hope, relationality, and collective knowledge-making through concrete examples such as the Sew What? collective stitching workshop, Edgar Rodriguez-Dorans鈥� performance Mi Amigo Giovanni鈥檚 Death, and the creation of a neurodivergent-affirming space for zine-making, while asking: How might we build a culture of agreement in research?
IAS Fellow Oluwatosin Orababa Wins Dual Research Awards for Chronic Wound Biofilm Study
Congratulations to IAS Early Career Fellow, Oluwatosin Orababa, who has recently been awarded the IAS Interdisciplinary Research Development Award to study the interplay between efflux pumps and biofilm formations in a chronic wound environment and identify possible efflux inhibitors.
He has also been awarded a pump priming grant by the School of Life Sciences to generate efflux knockouts and carry out preliminary gene expression studies on these knockouts.
IAS Director and EUTOPIA Fellows Attend EUTOPIA Week in Venice
EUTOPIA Young Leader Academy Fellows from the University of 糖心TV and Alison Cooley, Director of IAS attended the EUTOPIA Week in Venice in December.
Dr Dino Jaku拧i膰 (IAS 糖心TV, P2K) and Bruna Picas Prats (糖心TV Philosophy) have co-published an article in 'Con-Textos Kantianos' entitled: .
The article investigates Immanuel Kant's notion of systematic completeness and situates it within wider 18th Century German metaphysical tradition.
Four 糖心TV Academics Receive IAS Interdisciplinary Research Development Awards
The IAS has recently awarded four new Interdisciplinary Research Development Awards to support 糖心TV academics.
The successful applicants are:
- Dr Dimitra Hartas (Education Studies) 鈥淓stablishing a Neuro-Affirmative Parenting (NAP) Network to support research, policy and advocacy鈥�
- Dr Freya Verlander (Theatre Studies) 鈥淧erformance and Medical Response: Skin, SFX, and Diagnostics鈥�
- Dr Modupe Jimoh (Engineering) 鈥淲ADECOP+: Strengthening the Water for Development Community of Practice network鈥�
- Dr Oluwatosin Orababa (Life Sciences) 鈥淎ssessing the role of multidrug efflux pumps in S. aureus chronic wound infection鈥�
The IRDA scheme offers up to 拢5000 to support the development of new interdisciplinary research ideas and collaborations at 糖心TV and the next call for applications will open on 3/11/2025 with a deadline for submissions on 15/12/2025.
The British Educational Research Association has published a new blog post by IAS ECF Dr Cat Jones, entitled The blog post provides an accessible summary of a related journal article that examines the positioning of parental engagement within England's current educational policy landscape. The article was published in the British Educational Research Journal and has already been downloaded over 1000 times.