Qualitative Accelerator: Building Qualitative Research Capacity for EDI
Speaker bio for the EDI Community of Practice Training Conference
Meet our speakers
Katherine Corr
Katherine Corr (she/her) has been the EDI and Athena Swan facilitator for the Medical Sciences Division since 2017, with a strong focus on supporting departments to identify appropriate and data informed areas for action, and monitoring impact and progress. Most recently a significant portion of the divisional EDI Action Plan focussed around building skills and capacity for good practise across the division by providing high quality training and support for EDI facilitators, HR staff, and other actors. Data is our biggest facilitator and our biggest barrier at this institution, the better we can marshal it the better and more impactful our practise can become.
Dr Mahima Mitra
Dr Mahima Mitra is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Studies at the Saïd Business School, with special reference to Inclusion. She is also an Executive Coach on the School’s MBA Leadership Coaching Programme. During the early stages of her career, Mahima worked for the World Bank in India. Between 2018 and 2022, she served as a researcher co-investigator at the Saïd Business School on a Wellcome Trust-funded study examining professional identity development of under-represented academics. Before returning to the Business School in 2024, she worked as a Managing Consultant for a UK consulting firm, advising public sector clients across a range of strategy, economic and policy areas. Mahima’s current research focuses on professional identity and organisational identification, responsible leadership, inclusive cultures and leadership diversity.
