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Staff Profile

Dr Thomas McDaniel

Deputy Head of School Operations

  • Email: thomas.mcdaniel@ncl.ac.uk
  • Address: School of Maths, Statistics, and Physics - Herschel Building Third floor, 3.01
    School of Computing - 2nd floor office
    Newcastle University
    Newcastle-upon-Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background


Following the completion of my PhD in Plant Biology at Newcastle University in 2017, I joined the University as Research and Impact Facilitator in 2018 after a short time as a Trials Officer for a North-East based pesticide company. As RIF I led on the return to three Units of Assessment in the Research Excellence Framework 2021, achieving first and second in the country on the basis of Impact GPA score for two of these UoAs. I then moved to the School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics as School Research Manager, and now I am Deputy Head of School Operations for both the Schools of Computing, and Mathematics Statistics and Physics.


My role is to be the Professional Services lead for these two schools on several areas of the School manager portfolio. This includes Business Innovation and Skills; recruitment, induction, and onboarding; PS lead for Athena Swan applications; and internal and external communications. I also line manage the operations teams.


Qualifications 

2013 - 2017 PhD in Plant Biology at Newcastle University

2009 - 2013 BSc (Hons), First Class, in Biology at the University of Bath. 


Previous employment

2017 Trials Officer at i2L Research Ltd

2011 - 2012 One year Industrial Placement at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, as part of my undergraduate degree, investigating the diversity and distribution of the Flora of Iraq. 

Publications