Staff Profile

Newcastle Health Innovation Partners (NHIP) Academy Manager

The NHIP Academy represents a flagship part of the NHIP's programme. It is a novel initiative to support academic career development for health and care researchers. My role as the Academy Manager is to further develop the relationships between the NHIP Academy, NHIP Partners and our health and care researchers. I am passionate about research and champion all clinical academic career pathways and collaborative working. 

If you are a clinical academic, the Academy is here to support your journey in research, please get in touch.

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nhip.academy@ncl.ac.uk

Newcastle Health Innovation Partners (NHIP) 

Previous Roles

Senior Research Funding Development Manager - Experimental Medicine and Translational Research, NJRO

Research Funding Development Manager - Faculty of Science, Agriculture and Engineering

Research Co-ordinator - Newcastle University Institute for Sustainability

Background

I am a Medicinal Chemistry Graduate from Newcastle University and returned to the city to join the Institute for Sustainability team as a Research Coordinator in 2014, having spent a number of years pursuing academic and research interests elsewhere in the UK.

Upon leaving Newcastle, I enjoyed a period of time working in industry for P&G and Johnson and Johnson, before moving to the University of Oxford to undertake a DPhil in Chemical Biology under the supervision of Prof Hagan Bayley FRS.  At Oxford, I researched the single molecule behaviour of K channels and then undertook postdoctoral research in biocatalysis and directed evolution of CYP450s at the University of Manchester with Prof Andrew Munro.

Qualifications

2004-2008 DPhil Chemistry (Chemical Biology) Hertford College, University of Oxford

1999-2003 MChem Medicinal Chemistry Newcastle University

Selected Awards

Scholar, The Worshipful Company of Scientific Instrument Makers

Senior Scholar, Hertford College, University of Oxford

Alumni, Newcastle University Policy Academy, Fellows Programme