Diverse CDT Advisory Board

The Diverse CDT Independent Advisory Board (IAB) challenges, advises and guides on CDT strategy, stakeholder engagement and delivery. It plays a pivotal role in guiding and supporting Diverse CDT’s activities to ensure academic excellence, industrial relevance, and alignment with broader national and international research priorities and trends.

Its members offer broad, extensive and relevant experience, providing perspectives that include: academic and commercial expertise in data visualization, leadership in campaigning and delivering on diversity initiatives, leadership in pedagogy, curriculum design, and experience in CDT delivery.

Professor Jacqueline Carter

Emerita Professor of Statistical Literacy, and Emerita Professor in Social Statistics, University of Manchester

A Disability Inclusion champion who named as one of the top 100 Disability advocates by The Shaw Trust.

Dr Emmanuel Johnson

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Global Learning, and Visiting Research Fellow, University of Warwick

A researcher, filmmaker & poet who examines African lived experience, diasporic identities & ideas of home.

Professor Till Nagel

Human Data Interaction Lab leader at Technische Hochschule Mannheim

Till’s work bridges information visualization, interaction design and data literacy.

Professor Melanie Tory

Professor of the Practice at Northeastern University, Canada

She is especially focused on visualizations for health and engineering applications.

Alex Tolios Zisos

Portfolio Support Manager at EPSRC

EPSRC representative for the Creative Industries, managing the Audio, Vision, Speech & Senses (AVSS) portfolio