Dr Alison Callwood
Alison has been awarded multiple grants from Innovate UK the United Kingdom Innovation Agency including the 2023 Women in Innovation award. She has co-designed and built SAMMI®, the first known online Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) platform with principles for fairness built-in.
Her recent work includes the GENIUS (Generating Neurodiverse Inclusive Selection) project exploring the impact AI can bring to recruitment/admissions and how the interface between technology and humans can be softened to facilitate equity, inclusivity, and diversity particularly for neurodiverse applicants. Dr Alison Callwood gained her Doctor of Philosophy in 2015 at the University of Surrey.
She has a background in midwifery, nursing practice and education spanning 30 years. Alison is actively engaged in post-doctoral research exploring admissions to health professions education programmes focusing on ensuing equity. She is a part-time Associate Professor at the University of Surrey,