Strategic Events Officer

Mia is Strategic Events Officer for the University Research Institututes. She works on the planning and delivery of Cabot, Brigstow, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Jean Golding institute events programme, bringing researchers, partners and public audiences together. Her role covers event strategy, budgets, communications and design, and relationships with external partners.

Before this role, Mia was Research Administrator at the VIVO Hub, where her work grew to include grant writing, graphic design, patient and public involvement and engagement coordination, and event delivery. Recent projects include the VIVO Hub Research Showcase, the Hub's presence at the EPSRC All-Hub Meeting in Edinburgh, and PPIE workshops for the RECLAIM project on stress urinary incontinence research.

Mia has an MSc in Biodiversity, Wildlife and Ecosystem Health from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She previously worked as a molecular microbiologist at the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, including on the avian influenza outbreak response, and in patient administration at Bristol Dental School. She is interested in public engagement with research and in how lived experience and scientific research can inform each other.

You can contact Mia at mia.hill@bristol.ac.uk 

Pronouns: She/her