DoC RA Layal Hakim one of five finalists for the PDC Reps Award 2015

Layal Hakim, DoC RA Rep, was one of five finalists for the first Post-Doc Development Centre Rep Awards, celebrated on July 16th 2015.

On the 16^th July the Post-doc Development Centre  hosted the PDC Reps Award Dinner to celebrate the achievements of the Imperial College PDC Reps Network, and the significant contribution of departmental reps. This was the first award of its kind and was presented by the Provost, Prof James Stirling.

In total 15 Reps were put forward for consideration for the award, with all of the nominations of a very high quality.  Taking into account the number of nominations and the comments made on the form, 5 Reps were taken forward as finalists, with Layal being one of these. In recognition of the excellent work that all the finalists have done they each received a £50 John Lewis voucher with the winner receiving £500 toward a conference or workshop of their choice.

Layal, one of three reps in the Department, has worked very enthusiastically over the last year in her role as rep. Most notably she was the driving force for the organisation of the first DoC RA Symposium in June, which was a great success. Below is an extract from one of the nominations for Layal which was read out by the Provost at the award dinner:

Layal has ‘great inter personal and communication skills; is truly concerned with the welfare of the postdocs, understands the isolation that some postdocs in the department can suffer from and has made measureable steps to solve this issue’

Congratulations to Layal on her nomination!

To read more about the reps network please see:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/staffdevelopment/postdocs1/contacts