Our people

ReCSS central team

• Yvonne Birks - Associate Dean for Social Sciences and Acting Director for ReCSS
• Josie Hanby - Social Sciences Business Partnerships Manager  (josie.hanby@york.ac.uk)
• Chris Hewson - Faculty Research Impact Manager for the Social Sciences (chris.hewson@york.ac.uk)
• Helen Wells - Research Development Manager for the Social Sciences (helen.wells@york.ac.uk)

Other key professional services staff based in ReCSS

• Hannah Gray - Involvement@York Network Manager (hannah.gray@york.ac.uk)
• Lydia Harris - Research Development Project Administrator (lydia.k.harris@york.ac.uk)
• Philip Kerrigan - Project Officer, Centre for Future Health (philip.kerrigan@york.ac.uk)
• Louisa Shilton - Research Development Manager for Applied Health and Social Care (louisa.shilton@york.ac.uk)

Research support across the faculty: departmental research facilitators

• Centre for Applied Human Rights: Pippa Cooper
• Centre for Health Economics: Vanessa Wood
• Economics: Megan Rose  
• Education: Megan McLoughlin and Helen Parker
• Politics: Natalie Browne
• Psychology: Laura Tissiman
• Sociology: Sophie Bramley
• Social Policy and Social Work: Nicola Moody
• The York Management School: Eric Swales
• York Law School: Sophie Gibson