Dr Liz Dickinson, Lead Technical Data Scientist, Croda Europe Ltd.
Liz undertook her fellowship between 2016 and 2018 at the University of York. Her fellowship used a model system to identify particular genes or chemicals within the pea plant metabolism that are responsible for resistance to fungal infection and drought, and was co-funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the BBSRC.
The fellowship changed my professional life but also my personal life. It meant that I was happier being back in the work that I loved, but still managing to work part-time around caring for our young family.
I have a sense of fulfilment that I achieved both things that were important to me, which would not have been possible before my Daphne Jackson Fellowship. I have shown my children (and others around me) that it is possible to do work that you love and work part-time.”