Overview

The Research and Innovation Community of Practice Annual Meeting will take place online. During this meeting, the CoP Chair, Cordelia Selomulya, will review achievements of the CoP in the past year and share plans for the upcoming year.

Additionally Karen Davies will present a talk on the grant schemes available to the community and an explanation of how your application is assessed. This includes the decision process that applications go through and how they can be moved within the organisation to ensure that they have the best chance of success. She will also give a short hints and tips session with do’s and don’ts of applying to EPSRC.

Speaker

Cordelia Selomulya, CoP Chair, University of New South Wales

Cordelia joined UNSW as a professor (food and health) in the School of Chemical Engineering and as a Research & Commercialisation Director of the Future Food Systems CRC. Prior to joining UNSW, she was an ARC Future Fellow at Monash University, leading the Biotechnology and Food Engineering group with an internationally recognised reputation in particle engineering and drying technology research, particularly for food and dairy applications.

She was the director of the Australia-China Joint Research Centre for Future Dairy Manufacturing, a joint strategic initiative funded by the Australian and Chinese governments, and industry partners in both countries, including Bega, Saputo Dairy Australia, Fonterra, Gardiner Foundation, COFCO, and Mengniu Dairy. She was also the director of Graduate Research Industry Partnership (GRIP) for the Food and Dairy industry at Monash University.

She is a Chartered engineer and was elected as Fellow of the IChemE in 2016. In 2020, she was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering (ATSE).

Karen Davies, Portfolio Manager, EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)

Karen has a background in Chemistry, with 15 years industrial experience as a Development Chemist at Castrol and BP with a focus on tribology. Immediately before she joined EPSRC, she was a teacher of Secondary Science and A level Chemistry.

On joining EPSRC in January 2018, she had the biological engineering portfolio of the Synthetic Biology and Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering research areas. She took the opportunity to move portfolios in late 2023 and is now managing the Chemical Engineering research areas. This comprises three research areas: Complex Fluids and Rheology; Particle Technology; Process Systems: Components and Integration. Portfolio Managers process grant applications, evaluating remit, invite reviews, evaluate reviews on receipt and oversee the panel process. They also sit on advisory boards of large investments to advise on points of policy. In addition, they are a resource during the preparation of a proposal on areas of remit and fit to the various schemes available.

Any opinions are the presenters' own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the R&I Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.