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SUMMARY:LGBTQ+ in Academia: Challenges and Prospects - Prof Ewan St John S
 mith\; Department of Pharmacology\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20230609T083000Z
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CONTACT:Bobbie Claxton
DESCRIPTION:This talk will firstly look to address some of the challenges 
 faced by LGBTQ+ individuals within academia. Secondly\, the talk will disc
 uss what individuals and institutions can do to ensure that the academic w
 orkplace\, for staff and students alike\, is an inclusive and welcoming en
 vironment that enables all individuals to thrive and reach their full pote
 ntial. Summarising some of the important research in the field\, the talk 
 will also draw on personal experience of being an LGBTQ+ academic\, from s
 tudent to postdoc to faculty\, and on to holding positions of leadership.\
 n\nEwan completed his undergraduate degree in pharmacology at the Universi
 ty of Bath and then received a Medical Research Council studentship to con
 duct his PhD with Peter McNaughton at the University of Cambridge working 
 on the activation and modulation of acidsensing ion channels. He then move
 d to work with Gary Lewin at the Max-Delbrück Centre in Berlin as an Alex
 ander von Humboldt Research Fellow\, where he began working on pain peculi
 arities of the naked mole-rat\, examining their acid insensitivity and dim
 inished inflammatory pain. This was followed by a 1-year stint with Niels 
 Ringstad at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine at NYU as a Ma
 x Kade Foundation Fellow\, where he worked on CO2-sensing in C. elegans. I
 n 2013 he was appointed to a Lectureship in Pharmacology at the University
  of Cambridge where his research group focuses on understanding the molecu
 lar basis of nociception using both mice and naked mole-rats as model syst
 ems\, as well as investigating the cancer resistance and healthy ageing of
  naked mole-rats. Work in the Smith lab has been funded by the Medical Res
 earch Council\, Wellcome Trust\, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Res
 earch Council\, Versus Arthritis\, and the Dunhill Medical Trust with sign
 ificant collaborations with Astra Zeneca\, Beiersdorf and GlaxoSmithKline.
  He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2017\, Reader in 2019 and Professor
  in 2022\, and has been Deputy Head of Department since 2020\, as well as 
 Co-Director of Cambridge Neuroscience since 2022. In addition\, Ewan is a 
 Fellow of Corpus Christi College where he is Director of Studies in Biolog
 ical Natural Sciences\, a Tutor\, Custodian of the Corpus Chronophage Cloc
 k and LGBTQ+ Champion.\n
LOCATION:King's Hedges Room\, Babraham Research Campus
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