Emma Lalande, PhD

Interdisciplinary research scientist and Oxford LMH Study Skills tutor - exploring communication, culture and ethics for better Science.

Greater Oxford Area

About

I am an interdisciplinary scientist, an advocate for positive research culture and effective communication and a creative. I am on a mission to spread as much positivity for people as possible, for a sustainably better future. My personal interests revolve around connecting insights from human behavioural science and psychology with teaching, improving contextual communication and policy for a happier world. My journey at the moment involves combining my academic research and my love of encouraging engagement with science, learning and innovation. I teach study skills for all scientific disciplines across all HE courses at Lady Margaret Hall (Oxford); connect and collaborate across the Oxford entrepreneurial ecosystem; and pursue personal research into communication bias impacts in workplace culture, frameworks for productive interdisciplinary research and change management. In my academic world, I am trained in biomedical sciences and biophysics; my areas of expertise lie in microbiology, microscopy, fluorescent techniques and cellular systems. I am open to all opportunities, and I am particularly looking to engage more with policy infrastructure and development, with a view to improving cross-disciplinary communications and understanding.

Experience

  • Postdoctoral Researcher in Science & Society at University of Oxford
    Sep 2025 - Present · 10 mos

  • Study Skills Lecturer at Lady Margaret Hall
    Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

    Stipendiary Lectureship in Study Skills for Sciences (MPLS/MSD cross-divisional) for LMH - entailing 1-to-1 booked tutorials/referrals, and collaboratively providing Study Skills-related workshops, seminars and group classes, with a particular foundation of Academic Wellbeing.

  • Doctoral Student at University of Oxford
    Sep 2020 - Jun 2025 · 4 yrs 10 mos

  • Policy Intern at The Academy of Medical Sciences
    Jul 2024 - Sep 2024 · 3 mos

    Working across the International and UK Policy Teams, under Medical Science Policy at The Academy of Medical Sciences. Contributing to scoping projects and partnership events across FORUM (UK cross-sector collaborations) and International workshops, events' organisation, and continuing research and planning into AMS carbon reduction opportunities. Attended the Campaign for Science and Engineering conference, Making R&D Matter to More People, and the UKCDR (Progressing international development: why research and why now?), representing AMS.

  • President of the Lincoln College Middle Common Room at Lincoln College, University of Oxford
    Aug 2020 - Aug 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo