Staff Profile

Senior Research Funding Development Manager – Translational Research and Experimental Medicine

The Research Funding Development Team provides support and advice for researchers to enhance their research funding applications. I lead the Faculty of Medical Sciences Research Funding Development Team and work strategically to maximise external research funding for the faculty.

The Research Funding Development Team provides:

• advice on funder strategy, forthcoming plans and opportunities;
• project management support for large and complex funding applications;
• visits and information sessions from funders;
• 'in house' funding information and training sessions;
• advice on finding funding;
• advice on preparing funding applications;
• lay review of funding applications.

Please get in touch for help with research funding applications.

Background

I am a Newcastle University graduate having completed both my undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications here. Upon completion of my PhD, I worked in a variety of roles in industry before joining Durham University’s Research and Innovation Services, initially in Research Grants and Contracts and then Research Funding Development. I joined Newcastle University in 2020, as the Research Funding Development Manager for the Newcastle Wellcome Trust Translational Partnership before moving in to my current role.

Qualifications

2010 - 2013 PhD Molecular Biology. Newcastle University

2009 - 2010 MRes Medical and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University

2005 – 2008 BSc (Hons) Pharmacology, Newcastle University