Contributions to publications on EDI (authored or interviewed)
- Jayasinghe; “Don’t paint my 2020 Pride Month in rainbow colours” Medium https://link.medium.com/q40JF7J4p8 Jul 2020
- Jayasinghe; “How I got my UKRI Future Leader Fellowship: lessons learned from being a new PI”. Medium https://link.medium.com/W62248qtd4 Dec 2019
- Quoted byA.Murugesu; “Ethnic minority academics get less UK research funding” New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2222994-ethnic-minority-academics-get-less-uk-research-funding/ Nov 2019
- M. Jebsen, C. Abbott, R. Oliver, E. Ochu, I. Jayasinghe, C. Gauchotte-Lindsay; “A Review of Barriers Women Face in Research Funding Processes in the UK” PsyArXiv Preprints https://psyarxiv.com/27mdz/ Nov 2019
- Jayasinghe (published anonymously) “No pronouns, please; we are scientists”; blog post for The Physiological Society https://www.physoc.org/blog/no-pronouns-please-we-are-scientists/ (verify via news@physoc.org)
- Jayasinghe, S. Giles, M. Sulu, B. Britton (with 1200 signatories) “Letter to the Editor: Dons speak up for Stonewall trans programme” The Sunday Times: link (open access version via TIGERinSTEMM.org) June 2019
- Interviewed by Kwok, R. “Transgender researchers want to make an impact” in Science News for Students https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/transgender-researchers-want-make-impact May 2019
- Jayasinghe; “Trans and non-binary people won’t be erased through the miscommunication of science” Villainesse (https://www.villainesse.com/no-filter/trans-and-non-binary-erasure-through-miscommunication-of-science) Dec 2018
Honours and invitations (selected)
July 2020 – Shortlisted for the UK National Diversity Award as a “positive LGBTQ+ rolemodel” (outcome announced in Feb 2021)
July 2020 – Invited speaker for Pride Month lecture – Department of Chemistry, University of York
July 2020 – Invited speaker for Pride Month event – Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, The University of Glasgow
February 2020 – Keynote speaker at the PRISM Exeter event for LGBT History month, University of Exeter
January 2019 – Keynote speaker at the LGBTQ+ STEMinar held in the Institute of Physics, London
July 2018 – Keynote speaker at the LGBT+ STEM day conference, The University of Sussex
Professional roles in EDI
Nov 2016 – Oct 2018 – Committee member of the Athena SWAN committee for the Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds
Jan 2019 – Ongoing – Pool reviewer for UK Athena SWAN network via Advance HE
Feb 2019 – Ongoing – Member of the The Inclusion Group for Equity in Research in STEMM (TIGERinSTEMM)
March 2020 – June 2020 – Elected (ordinary) member of the Women in Physics committee, Institute of Physics
March 2020 – Ongoing – Member of the Life Sciences committee of the Royal Microscopical Society
April 2020 – Ongoing – Co-lead of LGBTQ+ STEM
July 2020 – September 2020 – Member of the TIGER in STEMM summer webinars series organising committee
updated September 2020
