Committee staff

Dr Emma Haagensen BSc (Hons), MRes, PhD, SFHEA

Emma is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Medicine and Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Director for the Faculty of Medical Sciences. She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Emma holds key leadership roles within the MBBS (Medicine) programme. She is Deputy Year 1 Lead, leads EDI for the MBBS programme, and co‑leads Case 5 within the MBBS curriculum. She undertakes and leads education‑focused research in EDI and belonging within medical education.

At faculty level, Emma leads EDI across the Faculty of Medical Sciences, coordinating activity through the Athena Swan Award and the Faculty Equality Project Action Plan. She chairs the Faculty EDI Committee and represents the Faculty on University‑level EDI groups, including the Gender Equality Group, Race Equality Group and Changing the Culture Group. Emma also represents EDI on the Faculty Executive Board, Faculty Education Committee and Faculty Infrastructure Group.

• Articles

  • Heng W, Ho MH, Mah XH, Lim JJ, Syamsury NHBA, Haagensen E, Ong ELC, Hubbard P. Exploring pre-clinical medical students' perception of and participation in active learning: A mixed-methods transnational study. Medical Education 2025, 59(6), 615-629.
  • Chan CD, Haagensen EJ, Tensaout HA, Rennie KJ, Gamie Z, Barry J, Birch MA, Gerrand CH, Nisar S, Robson CN, Lunec J, Rankin KS. Co‑localisation of intra‑nuclear membrane type‑1 matrix metalloproteinase and hypoxia inducible factor‑2α in osteosarcoma and prostate carcinoma cells. Oncology Letters 2021, 21(2), 158.
  • Gardner NJ, Gillespie PJ, Carrington JT, Shanks EJ, McElroy SP, Haagensen EJ, Frearson JA, Woodland A, Blow JJ. The High-Affinity Interaction between ORC and DNA that Is Required for Replication Licensing Is Inhibited by 2-Arylquinolin-4-Amines. Cell Chemical Biology 2017, 24(8), 981-992.e4.
  • Moreno A, Carrington JT, Albergante L, AlMamuna M, Haagensen EJ, Komselic ES, Gourgolis VG, Newman TJ, Blow JJ. Unreplicated DNA remaining from unperturbed S phases passes through mitosis for resolution in daughter cells. PNAS 2016, 113(39), E5757-E5764.
  • Haagensen EJ, Thomas HD, Mudd C, Tsonou E, Wiggins CM, Maxwell RJ, Moore JD, Newell DR. Pre-clinical use of isogenic cell lines and tumours in vitro and in vivo for predictive biomarker discovery; impact of KRAS and PI3KCA mutation status on MEK inhibitor activity is model dependent. European Journal of Cancer 2016, 56, 69-76.
  • Haagensen EJ, Thomas HD, Schmalix WA, Payne AC, Kevorkian L, Allen RA, Bevan P, Maxwell RJ, Newell DR. Enhanced anti-tumour activity of the combination of the novel MEK inhibitor WX-554 and the novel PI3K inhibitor WX-037. Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 2016, 78(6), 1269-1281.
  • Beale G, Haagensen E, Thomas H, Wang LZ, Revill C, Payne S, Golding BT, Hardcastle IR, Newell DR, Griffin RJ, Cano C. Combined PI3K and CDK2 inhibition induces cell death and enhances in vivo anti-tumour activity in colorectal cancer. British Journal of Cancer 2016, 115, 682-690.
  • Galanos P, Vougas K, Walter D, Polyzos A, Maya-Mendoza A, Haagensen EJ, Kokkalis A, Roumelioti FM, Gagos S, Tzetis M, Canovas B, Igea A, Ahuja AK, Zellweger R, Havaki S, Kanavakis E, Kletsas D, Roninson IB, Garbis SD, Lopes M, Nebreda A, Thanos D, Blow JJ, Townsend P, Sørensen CS, Bartek J, Gorgoulis VG. Chronic p53-independent p21 expression causes genomic instability by deregulating replication licensing. Nature Cell Biology 2016, 18(7), 777-789.
  • Haagensen EJ, Thomas HD, Wilson I, Harnor SJ, Payne SL, Rennison T, Smith KM, Maxwell RJ, Newell DR. The Enhanced In Vivo Activity of the Combination of a MEK and a PI3K Inhibitor Correlates with [¹⁸F]-FLT PET in Human Colorectal Cancer Xenograft Tumour-Bearing Mice. PLoS ONE 2013, 8(12), e81763.
  • Haagensen EJ, Kyle S, Beale GS, Maxwell RJ, Newell DR. The synergistic interaction of MEK and PI3K inhibitors is modulated by mTOR inhibition. British Journal of Cancer 2012, 106(8), 1386-1394.

• Book Chapter

  • Keenan ID, Green E, Haagensen E, Hancock R, Scotcher K, Swainson H, Swamy M, Walker S, Woodhouse L. Pandemic-Era Digital Education: Insights from an Undergraduate Medical Programme. In: Biomedical Visualisation: Volume 14‒COVID-19 Technology and Visualisation Adaptations for Biomedical Teaching. Springer International Publishing, 2022, pp.1-19.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

  • Haagensen EJ, Pancho MBC, Walker S, Veasuvalingam B, Madelar Bien J, Scotcher K, Green E, Thwe K, Yakob E, Hubbard PS. The Effects of Integrative Study Support on the Type and Complexity of Student Study Skills Techniques. In: 4th Developing Excellence in Medical Education Conference (DEMEC). 2021, Online: DEMEC.

• Note

  • Gamie Z, Kapriniotis K, Papanikolaou D, Haagensen E, Da Conceicao Ribeiro R, Dalgarno K, Krippner-Heidenreich A, Gerrand C, Tsiridis E, Rankin KS. TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) for bone sarcoma treatment: Pre-clinical and clinical data. Cancer Letters 2017, 409, 66-80.