Research Assistant/ Personal assistant to disabled research fellow– Oct 2020 to present
• Assistant to a disabled University Research Fellow, covering all aspects of academic research and teaching.
• Transcribe recordings related to research meetings, data collection, and one-to-one supervision meetings with students.
• Assist in the production and delivery of lecture and seminar materials as part of undergraduate and postgraduate study.
• Develop periodic reports for research funding bodies and reports on research expenditure.
• Assist in the maintaining of research participant safeguarding, and ensure confidentiality is upheld throughout research production.
Personal assistant/ Personal Healthcare assistant- March 2020- May 2021
• Personal assistant to a disabled partner (who is a power wheelchair user with severe muscle weakness) to cover emergency shifts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Assisted my partner in carrying out daily activities, including but not limited to personal care and hygiene, nutrition, medication, postural support, physiotherapy, travel, socializing, monitoring of non-invasive ventilation and assistance throughout the night and monitoring of skin integrity.
• Manual handling, hoist transfers and accessing/safety practices in wheelchair-adapted vehicles.
• Administration duties – Recording and Documenting meetings between my partner and healthcare practitioners (GPs, clinicians, crisis team etc).
Bioscientist/Senior Bioscientist – CRUK, Manchester Institute, Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M20 4BX- Oct 2011 to Sep 2017
• Design, development, and routine running of novel biochemical, cellular, and biophysical screening assays to be used during early phase drug discovery against a broad range of oncology targets.
• Quantitative assessment and data analysis of compounds; including potency, selectivity, and mode of inhibition.
• Provide project reports for presentation at project meetings, patents and peer-reviewed journal publications as required.