Wanran Zhang

• Main responsibilities include writing ethics applications, preparing study materials (e.g. Qualtrics questions, participant information and consent form, debriefing statements, etc.), screening abstracts, auditing data and recruiting participants for various projects.
• Software: Redcap, Qualtrics, Zotero, Ethics Review Manager (ERM), Sona systems

SAC uses research data to identify faculty-wide strategic initiatives, and provide advice that supports the senior leadership to make informed decisions. Major ongoing projects include:

• Feedback Fever: evaluating the quantity and quality of feedback for MDHS students, and co-designing staff workshops with Learning and Teaching Leads.
• PhD Re-Vitalisation Program: establishing an independent, external body that advocates for research students across different institutions, supporting them to collaborate, exchange insights, speak up, and engage in wellbeing and professional development activates.

• Worked for ~25h/week average within the Strasser Lab to investigate the efficacy of BH3 mimetic drugs in triggering programmed cell death as targeted treatment for medulloblastoma and glioblastoma multiforme.
• Aimed to enhance BH3 mimetic therapy through co-targeting the hedgehog signalling pathway in vitro.
• Main responsibilities included reviewing literature, preparing figures, carrying out experiments, analysing data using computer software, and maintaining laboratory records.
• Techniques: flow cytometry, tissue culture, cell-based assays, small molecule drug testing, InCucyte live cell imaging, SDS-PAGE, Western blotting
• Software: FlowJo, GraphPad Prism, R-studio

• Designed and delivered 4 x 2h workshops each day to school students, monks, hilltribe communities, and police officers of Mae Sariang, Thailand.
• Focused on the theme of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), with the aim of introducing cheap and practical mitigation strategies for local issues.
• Worked closely with people in rehabilitation centers on social and emotional health, by translating research-based practices into original and creative sessions.
• Led culture-sensitive, non-medicalised discussions on mental ill-health as genuine human experiences.
• Aspects of somatisation were explored through phenomenological concepts.

• Devised application questions, slides, challenge questions, and fill-in notes.
• Guided students’ learning through intentional questioning to understand the connections between concepts.
• Consistent focus on integration, pattern-seeking, and original thinking.