Speaker:
Dr Alice Dubois
Research Culture Manager, Postdoctoral Development Centre

About the Speaker:
Alice holds a PhD on innate immune mechanisms and proteolysis from the University of Tours in France, and moved to Queen’s University Belfast as a lung immunity postdoc in the Wellcome-Wolfson Institute for Experimental Medicine in 2014. After four years as a postdoc, she moved to an exciting administrative position, establishing a brand-new hub to support postdocs and their career development: the Postdoctoral Development Centre (PDC). Initially based in the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, Alice piloted some structures and policies for postdocs at Faculty level, and worked with colleagues across the University to widen the PDC to support all university postdocs, which was achieved in 2021.

Since April 2024, Alice took on the new role of Research Culture Manager, which involves managing the Research Culture sub-team, including the PDC Officer and Research Careers and Employability Officer from the PDC. While she is still responsible for Queen’s implementation of policy applying to postdocs, she also contributes to broader aspects of Research Culture including the design and implementation of the university’s Research Culture Roadmap, contributing to delivering the Northern Ireland Research Culture project (funded by Wellcome), and supporting institutional planning and submission to the ‘People, Culture and Environment’ section of REF 2024.