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Register at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/made-in-wales-researcher-career-stories-2025-tickets-1360486745479?aff=oddtdtcreator
This event is part of the REIS Seminar Programme series
SpeakerProfessor Sara Elin Roberts
Dr Melda Lois Griffiths
Sara Elin Roberts is an Honorary Professor at the School of Welsh, Bangor University.
Sara has worked in several HE institutions in various roles, and is currently working on a research project at Aberystwyth University.
She is a medievalist and has published widely on medieval history and literature, and has extensive expertise in Middle Welsh texts and manuscripts. She has published a number of award-winning books including most recently The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales (2022), and Children and Parents in Medieval Welsh Law (MHRA, 2025).
Her career has involved balancing academic research with other paid work, including working as a copyeditor of academic books, a role in local government, and hourly-paid teaching, as well as bringing up two children, now in their teens.
Dr Melda Lois Griffiths
Lois is a Senior Behavioural Science Specialist within the Behavioural Science Unit at Public Health Wales, and an Honorary Lecturer at Swansea University Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science. Her work focuses on identifying key areas for the application of behavioural science to improve quality in health and care. She also supports the development of behaviourally informed communications, addressing topics such as screening uptake; sustainability in primary care; acute patient flow; medicines adherence/disposal; and active travel. Her PhD (Cardiff University School of Psychology) focused on restructuring the food environment to enable healthier dietary behaviours, and behavioural spillover. She has also worked as a Research Fellow in Public Health Wales’ Research and Evaluation division and the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, conducting quantitative and qualitative research into topics such as work and health, and children and young people’s mental health.
To: 19 Jun 2025, 1 p.m.
Location: Zoom link will be sent after registration via eventbrite, Online Event - Please see description
Early-career researchers from across Wales are invited to a series of on-line career events in 2025. The purpose of these events is to give early career researchers an insight into the great variety of career options alongside the “traditional” academic route and are aimed at post-graduate and post-doctoral researchers.
The speakers contributing to the sessions all started their careers at a Welsh University and have since gone on to have successful careers in other sectors either within Wales or elsewhere. These events will celebrate individual career stories as well as showcasing the ways in which Welsh HEIs contribute to the development of a highly skilled and talented workforce for Wales, the UK and beyond.
The sessions will be delivered via Zoom or Teams and are being organised by the Wales Concordat Network (that has representation from Aberystwyth University, Bangor University, Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wrexham University, Swansea University, the University of South Wales and the University of Wales Trinity St David) in collaboration with the Learned Society of Wales.
Contact: Dr Anna Seager (Email: A.L.Seager@Swansea.ac.uk)
Event created by: t.m.chambers