Research Services are located on the 7th floor of Maple House at 149 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7NF
- Senior Leadership Team
Title Name Email Telephone Research Services at UCL provides a range of services and specialist advice in support of University College London's externally funded research portfolio. Director of Research Services Dr Karen Sergiou k.sergiou@ucl.ac.uk 58728 Assistant Director, Research Operations Mr Mark Hopwood m.hopwood@ucl.ac.uk 58736 Assistant Director, Research Support and Development (Pre-Award) Miss Claire Bensusan c.bensusan@ucl.ac.uk 56869 Assistant Director, Research Finance (Post-Award) Miss Sarah Howells s.howells@ucl.ac.uk 58758 Head of ERIO (Interim) Ms Kimberly Cornfield k.cornfield@ucl.ac.uk 59374 Research Services Business Partner Miss Amy Rutherford amy.rutherford@ucl.ac.uk 56885 - Research Operations Team
Title Name Email Telephone Responsible for developing and implementing UCL’s research management policies, processes and systems including:
- Continued development and support of Worktribe Research Management
- Provision and development of research management information / research reporting
- Continued improvement of research management processes, guidance and training
Assistant Director, Research Operations Mr Mark Hopwood m.hopwood@ucl.ac.uk 58736 Head of Research Information Office Mr Nigel Brooks n.brooks@ucl.ac.uk 58746 Research Operations Officer Mr Adam Bales a.bales@ucl.ac.uk 58697 Research Operations Officer Mr Marin Vitan m.vitan@ucl.ac.uk 56257 Research Operations Officer Mr Nathan Spalding n.spalding@ucl.ac.uk 08102 Compliance and Assurance Implementation Manager Miss Amy Rutherford amy.rutherford@ucl.ac.uk 56885 Special Projects Mr Andy Crombie a.crombie@ucl.ac.uk 58747 Due Diligence Delivery Manager Miss Kristina Kertova k.kertova@ucl.ac.uk 57188 Digital Communications Manager Miss Jade Donovan j.donovan@ucl.ac.uk 53868 - Research Support and Development (Pre-Award) Team for LMS
Title Name Email Telephone The team provides support and advice to departments applying for research grants through:
- Provision of advice on the costing and pricing of research proposals
- Provision of advice on scheme application and eligibility criteria
- Reviewing scheme terms and conditions of funding
- Reviewing the financial integrity of all research applications (with exception of European proposals) before submission to Funders to ensure adherence to UCL’s and Funder’s requirements
- Institutional authority to submit grant applications in accordance with UCL’s Financial Regulations and Formal acceptance of awards and subsequent set-up on MyFinance
Assistant Director, Research Support & Development Miss Claire Bensusan c.bensusan@ucl.ac.uk 56869 Head of Research Support for LMS (Brain Sciences, Medical Sciences) Miss Stavroulla Stavrou s.stavrou@ucl.ac.uk 58765 Research Support Officer Mr Mikail Choudhury mikail.choudhury@ucl.ac.uk 58739 Research Support Officer Ms Marilena Gonella m.gonella@ucl.ac.uk 58699 Research Support Officer Miss Neeta Pandya n.pandya@ucl.ac.uk 58743 Research Support Officer Mrs Ana Stamenkovic a.stamenkovic@ucl.ac.uk 57217 Head of Research Support for LMS (Life Sciences, Population Health Sciences)
Mr Dominic Mikulski dominic.mikulski@ucl.ac.uk 52922 Research Support Officer Miss Sabine Austin sabine.austin@ucl.ac.uk 07956 Research Support Officer Ms Majida Haque majida.haque@ucl.ac.uk 58716 Research Support Officer Ms Feruza Kulturaeva f.kulturaeva@ucl.ac.uk 58719 - Research Support and Development (Pre-Award) Team for BEAMS, SLASH & IoE
Title Name Email Telephone The team provides support and advice to departments applying for research grants through:
- Provision of advice on the costing and pricing of research proposals
- Provision of advice on scheme application and eligibility criteria
- Reviewing scheme terms and conditions of funding
- Reviewing the financial integrity of all research applications (with exception of European proposals) before submission to Funders to ensure adherence to UCL’s and Funder’s requirements
- Institutional authority to submit grant applications in accordance with UCL’s Financial Regulations and Formal acceptance of awards and subsequent set-up on MyFinance
Assistant Director, Research Support & Development Miss Claire Bensusan c.bensusan@ucl.ac.uk 56869 Head of Research Support for BEAMS, SLASH and IoE Vacant Research Support Officer Mr Kevin Boxell k.boxell@ucl.ac.uk 56863 Research Support Officer Dr Elena Kushnerenko e.kushnerenko@ucl.ac.uk 07784 Research Support Officer Mr George Eyre g.eyre@ucl.ac.uk 58718 Research Support Officer Miss Noosheen Bashir noosheen.bashir@ucl.ac.uk 57282 Research Support Officer Mrs Charlene Perrier c.perrier@ucl.ac.uk 58708 Research Support Officer Mr Matthew Coleman matthew.coleman@ucl.ac.uk 54716 - Research Finance and Compliance (Post-Award) Team
Title Name Email Telephone The Post-Award team, within UCL Research Services, is responsible for the financial administration of UCL’s externally funded research portfolio. They work with researchers, local professional services colleagues and funders to provide specialist knowledge and guidance on all aspects of post-award project management and reporting.
The team’s primary services and responsibilities are as follows:
- Provide support, guidance and best practice advice on all post-award financial administration and reporting matters relating to research awards.
- Support UCL’s compliance with accounting principles, UCL’s Financial Regulations and funder Terms and Conditions.
- Financial costing and approval of research funded staff appointments and studentships, to ensure sufficient budget and project duration are available and complies with the funder’s Terms and Conditions.
- Monitoring budgets to ensure that the project operates in accordance with its budget and, if required, assist the PI to prepare budget adjustments.
- Reconciliation of income and expenditure throughout the lifecycle of research awards to analyse financial activity and verify expenditure is eligible.
- Responsible for the preparation and submission of financial claims, invoices, financial statements and reports to funders, in line with the funder’s Terms and Conditions, claim formats, schedules and deadlines.
- Maintain financial records on projects and process changes in project data – extensions, suspensions, supplements, virements, and terminations.
- Perform quality assurance activities for compliance with audit requirements.
- Arrange and manage research project audits, liaising with internal and external auditors, ensuring clear audit trails with supporting data.
- Investigate and resolve queries and provide information for PIs, local research support and funders.
Assistant Director, Research Finance (Post-Award) Ms Sarah Howells s.howells@ucl.ac.uk 58758 Research Payroll Supervisor Mrs Leah Payne lb.payne@ucl.ac.uk 55954 EC Policy Manager Mr Christopher Long christopher.long@ucl.ac.uk 58710 EC Finance Research Administrator Mr Johann Fevrier j.fevrier@ucl.ac.uk 58724 EC Research Finance Administrator Miss Maureen Casey m.casey@ucl.ac.uk 58738 EC Research Finance Assistant Miss Julia Spittles julia.spittles@ucl.ac.uk 57582 Research Finance Manager Ms Donna Grant d.a.grant@ucl.ac.uk 58714 Research Finance Administrator Mr Paul Sloan p.sloan@ucl.ac.uk 58656 Research Finance Administrator Mr Tanaya-Toga Makawa t.makawa@ucl.ac.uk 52276 Research Finance Administrator Mr Roberto Hertel r.hertel@ucl.ac.uk 58753 Research Finance Administrator Miss Rudo M’Tandari r.m'tandari@ucl.ac.uk 58755 Research Finance Administrator Mrs Rosemarie Neunie r.neunie@ucl.ac.uk 58754 Research Finance Manager (Acting) (Maternity Leave) Mrs Lindsey Du Plooy l.plooy@ucl.ac.uk 58628 Research Finance Manager (Acting) Mrs Priya Sutharssan p.sutharssan@ucl.ac.uk 58751 Research Finance Administrator Mr Carlton Paul carlton.paul@ucl.ac.uk 59400 Research Finance Administrator (Maternity Leave) Ms Linda Ogunbiyi l.ogunbiyi@ucl.ac.uk 59117 Research Finance Administrator Ms Netsai Hakurotwi n.hakurotwi@ucl.ac.uk 02440 Research Finance Administrator Miss Sophia Chiang s.chiang@ucl.ac.uk 45233 Research Finance Manager Mr Nick Hurd n.hurd@ucl.ac.uk 58745 Research Finance Administrator Miss Saira Zaidi s.zaidi@ucl.ac.uk 58734 Research Finance Administrator Mr Arjun Robertson arjun.robertson@ucl.ac.uk 65107 Research Finance Administrator Miss Dalia Kranauskaite d.kranauskaite@ucl.ac.uk 58707 Research Finance Administrator Miss Sidrah Hussain sidrah.hussain@ucl.ac.uk 09091 Research Finance Administrator Mr Andrew Lewis andrew.r.lewis@ucl.ac.uk 58654 Research Finance Administrator Mr Nathanial Bones n.bones@ucl.ac.uk 57205 Research Finance Administrator Mrs Priya Gajiparia (On Secondment) p.gajiparia@ucl.ac.uk 58750 Research Finance Manager Mrs Magdalena Hagen m.nowak@ucl.ac.uk 58601 Research Finance Administrator Ms Jusna Jalil j.jalil@ucl.ac.uk 58749 Research Finance Administrator Ms Susan Itipe s.itipe@ucl.ac.uk 58987 Research Finance Administrator Miss Victoria Dovey v.dovey@ucl.ac.uk 57227 Research Finance Manager Miss Sarah Walton sarah.walton@ucl.ac.uk 58759 Research Finance Administrator Miss Aleja Taddesse a.taddesse@ucl.ac.uk 59117 Research Finance Administrator Mrs Alexandra De Sousa a.sousa@ucl.ac.uk 45241 Research Finance Administrator Miss Mandy Chong mandy.chong@ucl.ac.uk 68007 Research Finance Administrator Ms Ewa Azizali e.azizali@ucl.ac.uk 02441 Research Finance Administrator Miss Emma Cockerton e.cockerton@ucl.ac.uk 58717 - European Research and Innovation Office (ERIO) Team
Title Name Email Telephone The team provides comprehensive support to all UCL staff members seeking to participate in or lead initiatives under EU research and innovation funding programmes. ERIO’s core services include:
- Information and advice on the Horizon Europe programme
- A specialist contract management service for all UCL PIs who have been awarded a Horizon 2020 or Horizon Europe project
- A comprehensive project management service, which is currently managing 31 collaborative Horizon grants led by UCL
- Guidance and support to IoE colleagues seeking research and innovation funding from the European Commission Directorate General for Education and Culture (DG EAC)
- Horizon Europe proposal management and writing service (available on a consultancy basis)
Head of ERIO (Interim) Ms Kimberly Cornfield k.cornfield@ucl.ac.uk 59374 Head of European Innovation Management Mr Martin Scott martin.scott@ucl.ac.uk 59371 ERIO Contracts Team Head of Contracts Management Mr Giles Machell g.machell@ucl.ac.uk 59375 European Contracts Manager Dr Gianluca Marchiori g.marchiori@ucl.ac.uk 57725 European Contracts Manager Vacant European Contracts Assistant Vacant ERIO Proposal Development Team European Proposal Manager Dr Juliet Ellis juliet.ellis@ucl.ac.uk 59383 ERIO Project Management Team Head of European Project Management Ms Ilaria Marsili i.marsili@ucl.ac.uk 09637 European Project Manager Ms Camille Voirin c.voirin@ucl.ac.uk 55895 European Project Manager Ms Elena Gatti e.gatti@ucl.ac.uk 56263 European Project Manager Mr Marko Rupcic m.rupcic@ucl.ac.uk 55894 European Project Manager Mr Panos Papoutsis p.papoutsis@ucl.ac.uk 58711
European Project Manager Miss Eranda Begaj e.begaj@ucl.ac.uk 88634 Assistant Project Manager Ms Alisha Tauro a.tauro@ucl.ac.uk 7577 - UKRI Training Grants / Studentships Team
Title Name Email Telephone The team supports UCL’s Research Council Training Grant portfolio through:
- Provision of pre-award support for Research Council Training Grant studentship proposals
- Budget management advice and financial reporting; Audit of the RCUK Je-S records for Research Council Training Grant studentships
- Authorisation of stipend payments to Research Council Training Grant studentships and Preparation of Final Expenditure Statements
Research Finance Manager – Doctoral Training Grants (DTG) Mr Gavin Oliver gavin.oliver@ucl.ac.uk Research Finance Officer Studentships Ms Rachel Li rachel.li@ucl.ac.uk 65168 Research Finance Officer Studentships Miss Sandra Rugea sandra.rugea@ucl.ac.uk 65387 Research Finance Officer Studentships Ms Ann Enoyoze a.enoyoze@ucl.ac.uk 58705