Staff Profile

Introduction

In my role as Senior Research Funding Development Manager for EU & International funding, I support academic staff with their applications to international funding bodies, including Horizon Europe, to enable their research. I work across the whole university, together with my colleague Sarah Urquhart and the wider Research Funding Development team, to respond to research funding opportunities.

Our Research Funding Development Team provides:

• advice on funder strategy;
• information on funders' forthcoming plans and opportunities;
• 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.

For more information on Research Funding Development team support visit (internal only): https://newcastle.sharepoint.com/hub/rsd/rfd

Please do get in touch with me if I can help in any way with advice and support for international research funding.

Background

I studied Physics at Queen’s University Belfast and was awarded my PhD in 2006 having used ultrafast intense lasers to understand and control atomic and molecular dynamics. I then undertook two postdoctoral research associate positions at Kansas State University and Imperial College London, developing my research into the emerging area of attosecond science. Upon leaving academia, I worked for the Institute of Physics Publishing for seven years in an editorial role managing and developing a small portfolio of journals. In 2017, I joined the Research Support Services team at University of Birmingham (College of Engineering and Physical Sciences) where I specialised in developing and delivering training and events to support research funding applications. I joined Newcastle University in October 2018 to support the Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering's staff in maximising their UK research funding, and moved on to lead the international research funding side of our team in February 2024.