Emily is Head of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Programmes at Innovate UK. Emily’s focus is promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in business innovation.
She has introduced high profile campaigns and programmes for Women in Innovation and Young Innovators. Prior to Innovate UK, Emily worked in a variety of roles in organisations across the UK research and innovation landscape (including Research Councils and Government Departments) and has many years of experience supporting business-university collaboration and knowledge transfer.
Emily has a PhD in Chemistry. Innovate UK works with people, companies and partner organisations to find and drive the science and technology innovations that will grow the UK economy – delivering productivity, new jobs and exports keeping the UK globally competitive in the race for future prosperity.
Recent events have shaken the world and brought significant changes to our society and economy. In particular, the disproportionate impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement have brought into sharp focus inequalities that cannot be ignored. …
We have been promoting equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in the work we do since 2016 and our approach and priorities have evolved over time. We learn from our own work, and through dialogue with partners and the businesses we …
Our Women in Innovation 2018 awards competition does not follow the usual Innovate UK format so you might have some questions. Here are some frequently asked questions and our answers. We hope this clears up your doubts and gives some …
Hello and well done to those of you who successfully managed to get your infocus award application ready and submitted in time for the deadline. A lot of you did! So what next? Key stages in the journey ahead with …
