Faculty Research Operations teams

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.

The team is primarily organised by departmental portfolios (see profiles below) and support can be accessed as follows:

Department Contact
Economics

econ-researchsupport@york.ac.uk 

Education education-research-admin@york.ac.uk 
Politics poli-research-support@york.ac.uk 
SBS sbs-research@york.ac.uk 
Sociology sociology-research-admin@york.ac.uk 
York Law School law-research-support@york.ac.uk 

The Faculty’s research centres, Centre for Health Economics (CHE) and Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (CRD) are supported by embedded PSS teams.

Contact us

Faculty Research Team

socsci-research@york.ac.uk

Nicola Moody

Team Leader - Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award team

Natalie Browne

Research Coordinator - Research Environment, Development and Pre-Award (aligned to Politics and International Relations)

Shelia Davitt

Research Coordinator - Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award (aligned to Sociology)

Sophie Gibson

Research Coordinator - Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award (aligned to York Law School)

Alice Hiendl

Research Coordinator - Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award (aligned to Education)

Megan Rose

Research Coordinator - Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award (aligned to Economics and Related Studies)

Vicky Nesfield

Research Coordinator - Research Environment, Development (RED) and Pre-Award (aligned to the School for Business and Society)

Lydia Harris

Research Environment, Development and Pre Award Grant Officer

Helen Parker

Research Environment, Development and Pre Award Grant Officer

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.

The team’s portfolios are primarily organised by the source of funding (see profiles below) and this matrix Social Sciences Post Award Portfolio. If unsure, please contact the Team Leader.

Sasha Oakden

Team Leader, Post-award team - EC, NHS and NICE

Bob Brown

Grant Coordinator - UKRI

Ailsa Conlan

Grant Coordinator - NIHR HTA, NIHR PRP (PRUs), NIHR SSCR and NIHR GHRU

Victoria Lister

Grant Coordinator - UK Government, UK Industry and UK Charities

Anya Millington

Grant Coordinator - UK Government, UK Industry and UK Charities

Emily Smith

Grant Coordinator - NIHR RfPB, NIHR RfSC and Other Overseas (not EC)

Nicola Vickers

Grant Coordinator - UKRI and EC

Helen Ducker

Grant Officer - UKRI and UK Charities

Contact us

Faculty Research Team

socsci-research@york.ac.uk