Pre-Award Teams

The pre-award teams are working with academics to create budgets, handling pre-award approvals processes and project management of submission process.

Pre-Award Team 1

Use your departmental email address below to contact the team:

Biology - biol-research-office@york.ac.uk
Chemistry - chem-research@york.ac.uk
Environment & Geography - environment-research@york.ac.uk
Psychology - psychology-research-support@york.ac.uk

Staff member	Role and working days
Hayley Taylor	Pre-Award Team Leader (maternity leave cover, to October 2026) Monday to Thursday
Laura Smith	Pre-Award Team Leader On maternity leave
Jane McCarthy	Pre-Award Grant Coordinator Monday to Thursday
Laura Tissiman	Pre-Award Grant Coordinator Tuesday and Thursday
Hannah Fessey	Pre-Award Grant Coordinator Monday to Friday
Marie Fleming	Pre-Award Grant Officer Monday to Friday
Ciaran Ogilvie	Pre-Award Grant Officer Monday to Friday
Heather Oldfield Steenson	Pre-Award Grant Officer Monday to Friday
Martha Harrold	Pre-Award Grant Officer Monday to Friday

Pre-Award Team 2

Use your departmental email address below to contact the team:

Staff member	Role and working days
Catherine Jardine	Pre-Award Team Leader Monday to Friday
Paul Rosen	Pre-Award Grant Coordinator Tuesday to Friday
Warren Langthorne	Pre-Award Grant Coordinator Monday to Friday
Vicky Jackson	Pre-Award Grant Coordinator Monday to Thursday and alternate Fridays
Miyako Shimoji	Pre-Award Grant Officer Monday to Friday (Friday AM only)
Kathryn Davies	Pre-Award Grant Coordinator (part-days except Wednesday)

Team members are contactable by Zoom phone; please pre-arrange any phone or Zoom meeting unless urgent.

Health Sciences, HYMS, SEIY, WACL and YSBL are separately supported by embedded PSS teams. Please contact the relevant team directly if you are based in these departments/centres.