Alex Foley

The Accountability Archive aims to promote human rights in the Middle East and North Africa by creating a research archive of materials related to mass death atrocities. • Project managing and overseeing the creation of the Accountability Archive, a crowdsourced archive of genocidal statements or defamation of pro-Palestinian activists by politicians, journalists, and public figures. • Co-developing and implementing a social media brand and strategy, amassing a following of over 73,000 on X (Twitter) and 3,500 on Instagram in under a year. • Budgeting and fundraising the overheads for the first year’s worth of data storage and analysis. • Establishing connections with institutional partners - including legal teams, human rights organisations, journalists, and researchers - to ensure the data we are collecting isas useful as possible.

The student representative body for the University of Oxford • Designing, advertising, and analysing the results of a large scale student survey investigating prior school sexual health education satisfaction and current knowledge and presenting these results to the relevant committees. • Serving as a trustee on the board of a charity with an annual turnover of £1m and contributing to the new strategy. • Helping to oversee the pandemic response, sitting on a number of emergency committees with responsibilities such as creating/disseminating health communications, following government guidelines, and coordinating testing of the student body for COVID-19. • Lobbying for the creation of and sitting on the University’s Mental Health Task Force and securing roughly £400k in additional funding for student mental health provisions. • Designing and implementing the University's sexual consent workshops for freshers while contending with the challenges of making the content remote during the pandemic. Training over 100 facilitators.

Completed the thesis titled Optimisation of a Novel Technique for Measuring the Microviscous Environment in Living Cells.

A student-led global health think tank based in the UK and Hong Kong • Leading a team of four researchers to create a report on barriers to reproductive healthcare access for marginalised women and trans men. • Delivering quality assurance and harmonising input from the team. • Synthesising findings from a variety of studies to create specific recommendations for policy changes that would increase reproductive healthcare access for specific groups.

This MSc provides detailed training in current approaches to molecular biology and functional genomics. A large part of the degree is devoted to an individual research project undertaken in a research-active lab.