New Intern for the Node

Hi everyone! 

My name is Ryan Harrison, and I will be supporting the community sites at The Company of Biologists as part of a three-month internship. 

I am currently pursuing a PhD between the labs of Timothy Saunders and James Briscoe as part of the MRC DTP in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research, where I am researching organoids that mimic embryonic development of the lower back and spine.  

At university, I am also part of the Ambassadors for a Better Research Culture (ABRC), where we aim to improve the research environment on the medical school campus for postgraduate students and staff. Here, I am part of the ‘LGBTQIA+ Inclusion’ subgroup where we run monthly events to foster a community of LGBTQIA+ researchers at the medical school campus. We have also established a larger series called ‘Pride in STEM’, where we invite external speakers to discuss their experiences of being queer in different STEM career environments. I would like to carry this into my internship and compile some LGBTQIA+ voices for a post in the Honest Conversations blog series here on the Node. If anyone is interested in sharing their experiences of being queer in academia, please feel free to get in touch at ryan.harrison@biologists.com or thenode@biologists.com. 

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