2025 Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Student Leadership Program Experience - Ifeoma Dikeocha

The HDR Leadership Program was constructed as the Faculty was keen to invest in its next generation of research leaders. The aims were to provide guidance and support to its HDR students through mentorship and experiential learning.

In the inaugural year if the Leadership Program, Ifeoma Dikeocha set the bar very high. She took full advantage of her time shadowing some of the Faculty’s most successful academic leads and highly efficient support teams like the Research Development team, Business Development team and Communications and Media.

Come along and hear about Ifeoma’s fulfilling experience and learnings from the program. Ifeoma’s journey included shadowing the R&D team at Fresenius Kabi in Frankfurt and the principal investigator at Danone Nutricia Research. She also met with and had lab tours with postdocs at the German Cancer Research Institute and the Nutrition and Cancer Lab at Wageingen University.

Event details:

Date: Thursday 4 December

Time: 12:30 – 1:30pm

Venue: Barr Smith South (Room TBC)

**As it is over lunch time, please feel

free to bring your lunch along

On behalf of the Faculty and Ifeoma, we would like to extend our gratitude to those who volunteered their time for the HDR Leadership Program. These include:

• Academic Leads: A/Prof Hannah Rose Wardill, Prof Carolyn Semmler, A/Prof Wendy Ingman, Dr Clare Hume and Prof Fran Baum

• Communications / Media: Ms Rhiannon Koch

• Business Development Team: Nadim Shadiac, Dr Natalya Plakhova and Anna Yallop

• Research Development Team: Dr Nicole Moore, Dr Thomas Kontou, Dr Rebecca O’Rielly and Dr Esther Camp-Dotlic