Our people

Faculty Team

Staff member		Role responsibilities
	Professor Rachel Cowgill rachel.cowgill@york.ac.uk	Associate Dean for Research and Director of the HRC
	Professor Mariana Lopez mariana.lopez@york.ac.uk	Deputy Director
	Professor Craig Taylor craig.taylor@york.ac.uk	Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research (Arts and Humanities)
	Sarah Burton sarah.burton@york.ac.uk	Head of Faculty Research Operations (Arts and Humanities)
	Craig Robertson craig.m.robertson@york.ac.uk	Research Development Manager
	Megan Russell megan.russell@york.ac.uk	Support Officer

Faculty Impact and Knowledge Exchange team

This team provides first line departmental support for research impact and knowledge exchange, working closely specialist support functions based in the RIKE directorate.

Staff member		Role responsibilities
	Zara Worth zara.worth@york.ac.uk	Faculty Impact Manager
	Natalie Fullwood natalie.fullwood@york.ac.uk	Faculty Impact Manager
	Lucy Cheseldine lucy.cheseldine@york.ac.uk	Faculty Impact Administrator

Faculty Research Operations: Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award Team

This team provides support for departments for:

• Pre-award - working with Principal Investigators (PIs) to create budgets, handling pre-award approvals processes and project management of submission process
• Research environment - supporting strategic thinking, scanning for challenges, and identifying and engaging with new opportunities.

Support can be accessed by emailing hrc-research-support@york.ac.uk.

Staff member		Role responsibilities
	Vacant	Team Leader
	Jelena Kusakina	Research Coordinator
	Tracy Morris	Grant Officer
	Holly Day	Grant Officer

Faculty Research Operations: Post-Award team

This team provides support for departments to manage their external research and research-related grants, including award acceptance, setting up budgets and managing finances throughout the grant lifecycle.

Support can be accessed by emailing artshum-post-award@york.ac.uk.

Staff member		Role responsibilities
	Lisa Lack	Team Leader
	Gem Kirk	Grant Coordinator
	Vicky Nesfield	Grant Coordinator
	Josie Thomas	Grant Officer