Professional Services Staff

Find contact information for the Professional Services team covering Teaching and Learning, Finance, HR, Communications and general administrative support.

Division Manager

Anouchka Sterling
Email: a.sterling@ucl.ac.uk
Ask me about: Divisional strategic and financial planning

Operations Manager

Shanaz Begum
Email: shanaz.begum@ucl.ac.uk
Ask me about: Office and financial planning, hr and operations

Ask us about: Office management, visitor access, desk booking, maintenance requests, circulation of divisional emails, post, office supplies

Administrative Assistants

Mita Begum
Email: dop.admin@ucl.ac.uk

Rosa Vercoe
Email: dop.admin@ucl.ac.uk

Executive Assistant and PA to the Head of Division

Seema Duggal
Email: seema.duggal@ucl.ac.uk
Ask me about: All queries relating to Epidemiology and Applied Clinical Research, Mental Health Neuroscience and Mental Health of Older People research departments, Head of Division's calendar management, Divisional meetings

Departmental Administrator (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department)

Kemi O'Grady (secondment cover until end 2024)
Email: k.o'grady@ucl.ac.uk
Yana Kitova (on secondment until end 2024)
Email: y.kitova@ucl.ac.uk
Ask me about: All queries relating to Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department

Executive Assistant

Seema Duggal
Email: seema.duggal@ucl.ac.uk 
Ask me about: Support for the EDI Committee, Gender Equity working group and Race Equity & Ethnic Diversity (REED) group, data requests related to EDI initiatives

Ask us about: MyHR platform and access to Employee Self-Service, recruitment and onboarding, probation, training, appraisals, accelerated increments/regrades, payroll, parental leave, visas, notification of leavers, honorary appointments, PGTA contracts, fixed-term contract reminders, one-off payments, DBS checks and research passports for staff.

HR Manager 

Farbin Knapp
Email: dop.hr@ucl.ac.uk

HR Administrator 

Nadine Alwan
Email: dop.hr@ucl.ac.uk

HR Administrator for Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department

Kemi O'Grady (secondment cover until end 2024)
Email: k.o'grady@ucl.ac.uk
Yana Kitova (on secondment until end 2024)
Email: y.kitova@ucl.ac.uk

Ask us about: Submission of bids for research funding, set up of new awards, salaries forecasts, IDTs/IDJs, new accounts, consultancy projects, Divisional purchase card, Purchasing (including IT), invoices, expense claims

Senior Finance and Research Administrator

Gage Kumar Rull
Email: dop.finance@ucl.ac.uk

Operations Assistant

[vacancy]
Email: dop.finance@ucl.ac.uk

Finance Administrator for Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department

Kemi O'Grady (secondment cover until end 2024)
Email: k.o'grady@ucl.ac.uk
Yana Kitova (on secondment until end 2024)
Email: y.kitova@ucl.ac.uk

Communications Officer

Maria Thomas
Email: m.a.thomas@ucl.ac.uk
Ask me about: Internal and external Division communications, website updates, social media, DoPington Post, promoting your research

For postgraduate taught enquiries, please email dop.msc.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk in the first instance

Senior Teaching and Learning Administrator

Christina Kalantzi 
Email: c.kalantzi@ucl.ac.uk
Ask me about: Queries about the Division’s MSc Clinical Mental Health and MSc Mental Health Research and Dementia (Mental Health Pathway)

Teaching and Learning Administrator

Noorjaben (Nuj) Monowari 
Email: n.monowari@ucl.ac.uk
Ask me about: Queries about the Division’s MSc Clinical Mental Health and the MSc Mental Health Research and Dementia (Mental Health Pathway), payments for PhD students or external lecturers in relation to the MSc courses, MRCPsych

Georgie Robinson 
Email: georgie.robinson@ucl.ac.uk
Ask me about: Queries about the Division’s MSc Clinical Mental Health and the MSc Mental Health Research and Dementia (Mental Health Pathway), payments for PhD students or external lecturers in relation to the MSc courses, MRCPsych

MRes Brain Sciences Teaching and Learning Administrator  

Karen Hobbs
Email: k.hobbs@ucl.ac.uk
Ask me about: Queries relating to the Faculty of Brain Sciences MRes

MRCPsych / CASC Courses

Ask us about: Administration of the MRCPsych / CASC course including registration, attendance and feedback

Mita Begum
Email: dop.mrcpsych@ucl.ac.uk

Rosa Vercoe
Email: dop.mrcpsych@ucl.ac.uk

Ask us about: PhD admissions, upgrades and viva examinations

Administrative Assistants

Mita Begum
Email: dop.researchdegree@ucl.ac.uk

Rosa Vercoe
Email: dop.researchdegree@ucl.ac.uk