Guest: Dr Sarah McLusky, Research events consultant and facilitator.

Sarah McLusky is a freelance consultant, trainer and facilitatorspecialising in research events and communication. Sarah has been ‘research-adjacent’ for over 20 years. She has worked for universities and research projects, science centres and museums, learned societies and education providers. The common thread running throughout her career is making research more accessible and helping other people to do the same. Sarah’s academic background is in plant pathology/biochemistry, but she has worked across a hugerange of disciplines including all the sciences plus the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Sarah also hosts the Research Adjacent podcast.

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Research Adjacent podcast https://researchadjacent.com

Guest host: Dr Sibel Cal Kayitmazbatir, PostdoctoralResearch Associate at the University of Liverpool.

Sibel Cal Kayitmazbatir specialises in circadian rhythms and their impact on health and disease. She began her circadian research during her PhD in Turkey, complemented by four years of postdoctoral studies in the United States. After a career break for parental leave, she moved to the UK in 2024 to work on a project investigating circadian rhythm and redox system regulation. She is now establishing her independentresearch niche, integrating omics and computational approaches to understand circadian regulation and to predict optimal timing of therapeutic interventions.

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In this episode, Catherine shares reflections on her journey into academia and her recent research on supporting academic identity development for early career colleagues on a Teaching & Scholarship track.

Guest: Dr Catherine Queen

Catherine is a Senior Lecturer in Planning and a dual Chartered Town Planner and Landscape Architect with 35 years’ professional experience. Her research activity investigates gendered aspects of planning and design with a focus on intersectionality including marginalised, stigmatised and peripheralized communities. She has achieved global impact through her partnership with Arup and the UNDP on the multiple award-winning Cities Alive: Designing cities that work for women report and she has been recognised throughinstitutional and national awards for both her pedagogy and professional practice.

Reading List:

• Baxter, J. (2023) The role of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in developing practitioner/academic identities, AdvanceHE blog at https://www.advance- he.ac.uk/news-and-views/role-scholarship-teaching-and-learning-developing-practitioneracademic-identities (Accessed 13/08/25)
• Bourdieu, P. (1988) Homo Academicus, Cambridge, Polity Press
• McCune, V. (2021) Academic identities in contemporary higher education: Sustaining identities that value teaching. Teaching in Higher Education 26, no. 1: 20–35.https://doi.org/10.1080/13562517.2019.1632826
• Reay, D. (2019) Bourdieu and Education, London, Routledge
• Smith, S. & Walker, D. (2024) Scholarship and academic capitals: the boundaried nature of education-focused career tracks, Teaching in Higher Education, 29:1,111-125, DOI: 10.1080/13562517.2021.1965570
• Thomson, P. (2017) Educational Leadership and Pierre Bourdieu, Abingdon, Routledge
• Woon, A. (2024) How to Break the Promotion GlassCeiling for Teaching and Scholarship Academics, online HEPI blog at https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2024/07/22/how-to-break-the-promotion-glass-ceiling-for-teaching-and-scholarship-academics/

The Academy’s Developing Practice Podcast is produced by The Academy, University of Liverpool. The role of the Academy is to promote and enable organisational excellence through the strategic development of the University’s people and practices. To find out more about the work of The Academy check out: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/the-academy/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Guest:

Denise has been supporting researchers and the academic community at the University of Liverpool for over 12 years so knows only too well the challenges faced within HEI.

A career coach on the Prosper programme she has been providing group and individual coaching programmes for Post-docs and Early Career Academics since 2015 helping them to feel more confident, better manage their time, be more productive and develop their interpersonal skills.

In 2017 she won the Northern Power Woman Mentor of the Year Award for her work supporting women in STEM.

Guest Host:

Dr Selina Johnson, AHP Clinical Researcher and physiotherapist at the University of Liverpool.

Selina specialises in endometriosis-associated pain and chronic pelvic pain. My research focuses on improving NHS pain care through mixed-methods studies, including evaluation of pain management programmes and co-produced approaches to support people living with pelvic pain. I am currently preparing a postdoctoral fellowship todevelop psychologically informed physiotherapy for endometriosis in secondary care, alongside qualitative research exploring physiotherapy practice and pain flare-ups. I work closely with clinical services, interdisciplinary researchers, and people with lived experience to deliver impactful, applied research.

The Academy’s Developing Practice Podcast is produced by The Academy, University of Liverpool. The role of the Academy is to promote and enable organisational excellence through the strategic development of the University’s people and practices. To find out more about the work of The Academy check out: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/the-academy/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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