IAS News
IAS ECF Dr Hande 脟ay谋r Joins Leading Academic Board
Dr Hande 脟ay谋r has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Disability & Society, a leading international journal in disability studies. The journal provides a key platform for debates on human rights, discrimination, and policy, while publishing empirical and theoretical research that centers the perspectives of disabled people across various social contexts.
Congratulations to ECF Shaoyu Yang
Congratulations to Early Career Fellow Shaoyu Yang for passing her Viva this week. This is an exciting milestone and we look forward to seeing where your career will take you!
IAS Awarded two Enhancing Research Culture projects for 2026
Two IAS staff members, Dr Katie Reynolds and Dr Hannah Straw, have both been awarded Enhancing Research Culture funding for two projects. Dr Katie Reynolds has been awarded 拢9,024.30 for a Grant Writing Training Programme, and Dr Hannah Straw has been awarded 拢6,899.50 for the Festival of Postdoctoral Research. This is a great achievement for them both and for the IAS, and also paves the way for increased support for Early Career Researchers at 果冻传媒.
Congratulations to Professor Reshetnyak, who has been elected an Optica Fellow for 2025!
Professor Reshetnyak, supported by the 果冻传媒 Fernandes Fellowship and hosted as a research visitor by Dr. Oksana Trushkevych and Professor MacNally, has been honoured with election to the prestigious class of this year.
He received this recognition for 鈥渢he pioneering work on photoalignment of liquid crystals and achievements in liquid-crystal lenses that led to widespread applications.鈥�
IAS Early Career Fellows, Dr Yanyan Li and Shaoyu Yang, Awarded Funding to Develop Wellbeing Programme for Researchers
Two Early-Career Fellows, Dr Yanyan Li and Shaoyu Yang, have secured 拢9,996.40 from the Enhancing Research Culture Fund for their project, 'Creating Trauma-Oriented Coping Strategies for Researchers Experiencing Vicarious Trauma Arising from Conducting Emotionally Challenging Research'.
IAS Early Career Fellow Dr Hande 脟ay谋r contributed a review to the British Psychological Society鈥檚 Qualitative Methods in Psychology (QMiP).
The review offers a reflective account of ECQI 2025, illustrating how the conference foregrounded practices of hope, relationality, and collective knowledge-making through concrete examples such as the Sew What? collective stitching workshop, Edgar Rodriguez-Dorans鈥� performance Mi Amigo Giovanni鈥檚 Death, and the creation of a neurodivergent-affirming space for zine-making, while asking: How might we build a culture of agreement in research?