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Operations teams and staff

Here you will find information about the Institute of Ophthalmology's Operations teams and staff, including contact details and areas of responsibility.

Team members and responsibilties 

Nick Burt

Finance and Research Manager

nicholas.burt@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7608 6802

  • Coordination and management of pre and post-award support
  • Institute’s central point of reference for research administration related enquiries
  • Provide financial administration authorisation for changes to grant budgets and for grant-funded staffing
  • First point of contact for finance-related queries in relation to core and other activities at the Institute
  • Intermediary contact for Institute team and Faculty finance team

Blessing Adedoyin

Education Marketing Manager

b.adedoyin@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 07741 671 385

  • Managing Institute-wide education marketing, including website
  • Social media management 
  • Student recruitment marketing and student engagement
  • Liaising with strategic partners (Moorfields Education) and UCL (Faculty of Brain Sciences)

Jill Cowing 

Environment and Safety Manager

j.cowing@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7608 6822

  • Building refurbishment & Estates project requests, including advising on capital investment projects
  • Health & Safety
  • Security, access & inductions for new staff
  • Sustainability

Emanuela Evangelisti

Communications Manager

e.evangelisti@ucl.ac.uk 
ioo.comms@ucl.ac.uk

  • Managing Institute-wide internal and external communications, including website and intranet
  • Media and press enquiries
  • Social media policy and guidelines
  • Working closely with UCL Faculty of Brain Sciences and UCL central communications/media teams

Avili Feese

Athena SWAN Project Manager

ioo-equality@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7608 6986

  • Promote equality, diversity and inclusion across the Institute, with a particular emphasis on gender equality
  • Develop and deliver Institute events, seminars and/or workshops relating to equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Facilitate the Institute’s submission for the Athena SWAN Charter

Matt Hayes

Imaging Unit Manager

m.hayes@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7594 3105

Liz Hurst

Compliance and HR Support Manager

k.hurst@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7608 6803

  • All animal ethics and Home Office compliance issues, including project and personal licences
  • Clinical staff, agency staff, senior promotions process, letters for staff, any ad hoc returns
  • Visitor status, status questionnaire, job hazard forms; enable emails to be set up for visitor and honorary users

Naheed Kanuga

Senior Laboratory Manager

n.kanuga@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7608 6891

Alex Addo

Education Manager 

ioo.education@ucl.ac.uk

  • Manage Education Team in Postgraduate Taught administration and student life-cycle (including introduction of new programmes, admissions, induction, assessment) 
  • Postgradute Research administration and student life-cycle
  • Student support 
  • Advise on education policy for the Institute

Claire Roberts

HR Manager

HR Manager
claire.roberts@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7608 6928

  • Responsible for sickness absence reporting, Access to Work claims and ‘back to work’ meetings
  • Administration of probations and appraisals
  • First point of contact for all levels of honorary contracts

Wing-Chau Tung

Institute Manager

w.tung@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7608 6935

  • Support the Institute Director in implementing the Institute’s strategy and policies
  • Lead the Institute’s professional service operations
  • Manage the operational infrastructure of the Institute to support education, research, administration and other activities

Gill Tunstall

HR Manager

g.tunstall@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7608 6955

  • Provide advice and support to PIs and line managers on UCL HR policies and procedures
  • Manage job adverts and requests to central HR for contracts, changes to appointments and leavers
  • Advise on certificate of sponsorship applications

Cynthia Wilson

Executive Assistant to the Institute Director

cynthia.wilson@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7608 6808

  • Manage Director’s diary and provide support for him
  • Administration for Institute Executive Committee and Deputy Directors
  • Support the Deputy Directors in relation to their roles 
  • Institute newsletter 
  • Some communications, including digital signage