Staff Profile

My Role

As a member of the Partnerships team at Newcastle University I manage the engagement of a network of private, public and third sector business partners for the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Geospatial Systems - itself a partnership between Newcastle University and the University of Nottingham. I also manage the international academic network at the CDT for the purposes of arranging secondments.

The role of the CDT is to train the next generation of Geospatial Data Scientists and Engineers. Business engagement is fundamental to the successful delivery of this vision.

My role is all about bringing the right people together at the right time to share ideas and develop mutually-beneficial collaboration.

Geospatial is broad and interdisciplinary and my role is internally and externally facing. I work directly with partner individuals and teams; academics and professional services staff in the SAgE and HASS faculties at both institutions; and our postgraduate students.

Areas of activity:

• Promoting the CDT and its value proposition to current and prospective partners. Business engagement includes PR, marketing and direct interaction: arranging face-to-face time (formal and informal); attending industry events, workshops and trade fairs; running business-focussed events on-campus; organising the CDT industry seminar series; email / CRM; social media; videotelephony.
• Identifying prospective partners and strengthening the engagement of existing partners.
• Negotiating and securing direct industry support to CDT studentships.
• Accessing and understanding the continually changing needs of our partners, relaying these to our CDT Directors, our Programme Management and Industry Advisory Boards and the Partnerships team. To help inform the CDT programme and our business engagement strategy.
• Exploring the academic expertise available to the CDT across both institutions, in order to build impactful supervisory teams which address the needs of industry and academia.
• Promoting opportunities in industry to our CDT students, including internships; workshops and training events; job openings.
• Mentoring CDT students on their own business engagement and career development.

Outside of my core role:

• Organisation of the industry careers fair (GENIE) for Geospatial Engineering undergraduates, and the Geospatial Engineering group presence at the GeoBusiness trade show.
• I contribute to the evaluation of commercial opportunities from within SAgE.

Background

I trained as a Geologist, Geoscientist and pragmatist. I joined the University through recruitment to my current 3-year role in January 2021.

Prior to joining the University, I held for 9 years the position of Research Geoscientist at a Durham University spin-out, serving the Oil and Gas sector. My role involved geoscience and geospatial R&D, commercialisation and knowledge exchange between academia and industry. During my time I developed and successfully marketed to industry numerous data science solutions utilising advances in both hardware and software. I developed current best practice and was Accountable Manager for UAV survey operations through a CAA PfCO. I also led field teams in the UK, Iraqi Kurdistan, the Philippines and Italy - (here, primarily to support post-earthquake civil protection efforts).

I have held numerous other roles over the years alongside my studies, from workshop assistant in the family business aged 13; front of house host and events promoter to the arts during my undergrad years; through to self-employed consultancy during my PhD.

Qualifications

• BSc (hons) Geology (first class), The University of Edinburgh, 2008
• PhD, Structural Geology, Durham University, 2012

Informal Interests

Fell running, adventure and travel (remember that?); motorcycling; amateur radio (M6OLX); 'fixing stuff'.

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