Srilatha Mysore Nagendra (She/Her)

Srilatha joined the University of Exeter in January 2024 as a Graduate Research Assistant at the CRANE (Cooperative Robotics and Autonomous Networks) Lab, on a research project funded by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). The project focused on the operation of autonomous vehicles in dynamic environments. She worked on this project collaboratively with Supacat Ltd, carrying out risk analysis and identifying control measures for the safety deployment of the vehicle.  

She currently works as a Project Administrator within the Research and Innovation Project Delivery Team, where she supports a diverse portfolio of EU and UK government-funded research projects.

Her projects include:

Cultures of Philosophy - Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (CultPhil), originally awarded as a European Research Council Horizon Europe Starting Grant in the 2022 and now funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The project explores women's interventions in philosophy in early modern Europe.

If pollinators designed gardens, what would humans plant? Using living artworks and citizen science to drive evidence-based pollinator conservation (Pollinator Pathmaker Constantine Network), a UKRI funded project to study the impact of the award-winning living artwork Pollinator Pathmaker on pollinator conservation in a semi-urban environment. This is an interdisciplinary project led by Christopher Kaiser-Bunbury, with partners from the social sciences, Prof. Jane Calvert (University of Edinburgh), philosophy Prof. John Dupré (University of Exeter) and the arts, Dr Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (ADG Ltd). 

Industrial Doctorate Centre in Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE), an Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) industry-based Doctoral Training Centre, training Engineering Doctorate students in Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE). This programme is a partnership between the University of Exeter, the Universities of Edinburgh and Strathclyde, supported by the Scottish Association for Marine Sciences (SAMS) and HR-Wallingford.

The Digit Lab, another EPSRC funded Next Stage Digital Economy Research Centre that accelerates digital innovation and transformation in Large Established Organizations (LEOs).

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Taking Racism Out of Human Genetics: A Philosophical Approach (HUGERA), is an EU funded project that aims to produce a systematic diagnosis of how racism influences current human genetics research, identifying the types of harm that unfold from it but have been overlooked by scientists.