Biography

I am the Senior External Programmes Manager in the Research Development and Support Team (ReDS) at BAS. I am responsible primarily for post-award project management, with a main focus on Arctic related projects.

The majority of externally funded (outside of NERC) projects at BAS are funded by the European Union through both their Framework 7 and Horizon 2020 programmes. In addition we have several funded by ESA (European Space Agency) and ONR (the US Office of Naval Research). I am responsible for ensuring smooth running of these projects and insuring financial and technical reports are submitted, as well as the most of the funding is made within the projects through enabling collaborations and communications, and disseminating the work of the project to wider stakeholder audiences.

I am currently also managing pre-award support – helping BAS scientists to submit proposals through the systems (EC, ESA, ONR) whilst recruitment for a new post is ongoing.

I am also involved in new record management system (RMS) to provide better management information to BAS directors and leaders and will take on management of this once it is fully implemented.

I am co-leading the Local Organising committee for an International Glaciological Society symposium in Cambridge.

My main projects include:

ICE-ARC – Ice, Climate, Economics – Arctic Research on Change – www.ice-arc.eu – 12M euro project coordinated by BAS (Jeremy Wilkinson) 2014-17.

I am the Programme Manager, and Work Package 6 leader, funded for half my time on ICE-ARC. Programme Administrator: Katie Gosling. Other BAS staff: Vicky Hamilton Morris (sea-ice physicist), Andy Tait (engineering – buoy builds), Heather Martin (comms).

EU-PolarNet – Coordinating Action from H2020 on Arctic and Antarctic science challenges, infrastructure platforms and availability, and stakeholder engagement and dissemination. Coordinated by AWI. Programme Administrator: Ruth Driver-Breen.

iSTAR – NERC consortium project investigating Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.

IGS2015 Cambridge – co-leading the Local Organising Committee with Andy Smith (iStar PI) for the International Glaciological Society symposium in August 2015 in Cambridge.

+several other projects e.g. ACCESS, MASE, Polar Ice, SPACESTORM, CACHE EMBRIC, IMCOnet, Best Penguins, REVEAL, EUFAR2, ONR-MIZ.

History:

August 2009 – January 2014:

BAS: Ice2sea Programme Manager:

Ice2sea was an EU FP7 funded project, lead by Prof David Vaughan, to constrain predicitions of future sea-level rise for the next 200 years. It has 10M euros funding from the EU, from 2009-2013. See www.ice2sea.eu for more information.

2006 – 2009:

BAS: SOLCLI:

Working with Martin Jarvis in the Holistic group at BAS. Working on the SOLCLI consortium project studying solar variability effects on climate change, on the global atmosphere from the stratosphere to thermosphere. http://www.see.leeds.ac.uk/research/icas/research-themes/atmospheric-chemistry-and-aerosols/groups/atmospheric-chemistry/projects/solcli/

2002 – 2006:

PhD at the Atmospheric Physics Laboratory, University College London. Thesis title: Gravity Waves and Small Scale Structure of the High-Latitude Upper Atmosphere.

1998 – 2002:

MPhys – Physics with Astronomy, University of Southampton.

Qualifications and memberships

PRINCE2 Practitioner

Association of  Research Managers and Administrators member

Institute of Physics associate member

Research interests

Current focus, through project management rather than direct research, is on the Arctic.

Previous focus on the upper atmosphere, particularly over Scandinavia, and effects of climate change.

Collaborations

ICE-ARC – Ice, Climate, Economics – Arctic Research on Change – www.ice-arc.eu – 12M euro project cooridinated by BAS (Jeremy Wilkinson) 2014-17.

EU-PolarNet – Coordinating Action from H2020 on Arctic and Antarctic science challenges, infrastructure platforms and availability, and stakeholder engagement and dissemination. Coordinated by AWI.

iSTAR – NERC consortium project investigating Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.