Head of Programmes, Grand Challenge of Justice & Equality, UCL

Siobhan is Head of Programmes for UCL’s Grand Challenges of Cultural Understanding and Justice & Equality, responsible for a portfolio working with academics and external partners to facilitate impactful research, cross-disciplinary innovations, and cross-sector collaborations. Specialising in equalities and structural inequities in society, she has published extensively on intersectional inequalities in the UK, including for UCL Press, The Conversation, Times Higher Education, and The Independent. More broadly, Siobhan is an experienced knowledge broker, working to cultivate and manage strategic high-level relationships and leading award-winning research projects, centres, and engagement activities. She is co-founder of the Structural Inequalities Alliance, a cross-sectoral network developing consensus on tackling systemic societal inequalities, expert advisor to the Universities Policy Engagement Network's (UPEN) EDI committee, and previously a policy consultant at the British Academy.