Alumni volunteering: student presentation feedback
Tuesday 23 June 2026 14:00 to 15:30Location: |
Virtual Event |
About the event
As part of Community & Giving Week, Green Templeton is inviting volunteers to feedback on student’s presentation style and delivery at an online research presentation session on Tuesday 23 June, 14:00 via Zoom.
Volunteers do not need to be an expert in the subject area, simply willing to listen, offer encouragement and share advice on how students can improve. The opportunity to hear directly from alumni is enormously valuable to students as they build confidence in communicating their work and ideas.
Registration
About the speakers
Mahrin Ahmen
Thesis title: Women’s Experience of Heart Attack Symptoms in the UK and Decision to call 999
Mahrin is a clinical medical student with interests spanning cardiology, women’s health, bioethics and digital health innovation. Her academic and clinical work increasingly focuses on the structural and biological factors that shape cardiovascular outcomes for women. This focus has led to contributions across research and innovation, including co-authoring a BMJ editorial on inequities in women’s cardiovascular care, conducting qualitative research on how women recognise and respond to heart attack symptoms, and co-founding a digital health platform using AI to improve global heart health, with particular attention given to underserved groups.
Alongside research, she has served as President of the Oxford Cardiology Society for the past two years, coordinating academic events and fostering collaboration in cardiovascular medicine. She contributes to medical education through OxPal and Oxford-based teaching programmes, delivering both clinical and pre-clinical tutorials. She also has experience in neuroscience research. Her broader academic interests include clinical ethics, particularly the practical implications of truth-telling and decision-making in complex care.
Giorgia dal Fabbro
Project title: Moral Life at the Intersection: Market and Community in Fair Trade
Giorgia is a second-year Italian DPhil Candidate in International Development. She holds a BA in Comparative European and International Legal Studies and a MA in European and International Studies from the public University of Trento, Italy, both completed with honours.
Before coming to Oxford, Giorgia has volunteered across the national and international levels of the Fair Trade movement and engaged directly with producers in Italy, Kenya, Peru and Ghana. She was drawn to academic research by the questions that emerged from those experiences, bringing her interest in Fair Trade into academia.
During her first year at Oxford, alongside the academic and financial challenges that often accompany doctoral study, Giorgia remained actively involved in the University and College life. She serves as departmental cohort representative, is a member of GTC’s Allotment Club and Oxford University’s Volleyball Club, and became involved with the Oxford Fair Trade Coalition. She also organised a photo exhibition on Fair Trade cocoa and hosted a conversation in College with a Fair Trade cocoa producer from Ghana.
Her DPhil research proposes to explore moral life at the interface of market and non-market activity in Fair Trade through ethnographic research with a Sicilian cooperative producing both and tropical fruit for sale. The project challenges the idea that morality is simply “added” to otherwise amoral markets through ethical initiatives such as Fair Trade. Instead, it examines how moral understandings and practices span market and non-market domains, with implications beyond Fair Trade for anthropological understandings of economic life.
Alongside her research, she remains actively engaged in the Fair Trade movement at both national and international levels, sustaining a dialogue between scholarly and practice-based knowledge that she sees as central to her work.
Sofya Lebedeva
Sofya’s background spans bioinformatics, immunology, and founding technical research initiatives. She is currently a DPhil candidate in Clinical Medicine (2023).She describes herself being a ‘half scientist, half entrepreneur, all about positive impact’ with interests focusing on statistics, genomics, immunology and pandemic preparedness.
Sofya’s research focuses on viral genomics and host–pathogen interactions, with a particular emphasis on the hepatitis C virus. She has advised the UK government on innate vaccine development and in 2025 worked with the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) to help develop the thesis for its £46 million universal vaccine call under the Sculpting Innate Immunity programme.
Type: Alumni, Alumni event public
