Professor Dale Sanders FRS
Professor Dale Sanders’ research group studies how plant cells respond to changes in their environment and how they store the nutrients they acquire. An understanding of the way plants transport nutrients and what stimulates them to respond to certain conditions is crucial in areas such as improving crop quality in agriculture. In 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and was awarded the European Science Prize of the Körber Foundation.
As head of the Department of Biology he has upheld the Department’s supportive environment for parents – which was so essential to him when, mid-career, he found himself bringing up his young family alone.
How he benefits
"We encourage career development programmes for more junior scientists at graduate student and post-doctoral stages through mentoring and a flexible working environment. Academic staff can work part-time and job shares are encouraged. It is important that all sections of the Department feel engaged in decision-making, so a gender balance is ensured on all committees, and for many key committees it is the norm to include more junior academic staff. Many junior academic staff are at critical stages of their careers when they also have young children, so we try to schedule meetings at family-friendly times."
- Professor Dale Sanders FRS
Professor Dale Sanders
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- Department of Biology
(Head of Department)- staff profile