Cellular Genetics Admin Team

Cellular Genetics Programme

The Cellular Genetics Admin Support Team provides comprehensive research management and administrative support to the Head of Programme, Faculty and Associate Faculty in Cellular Genetics. We use our extensive operational expertise to empower Cellular Genetics researchers to push the frontiers of discovery science.

What we do

The Admin Support Team supports the Cellular Genetics Programme in a variety of roles including:

Research Management

  • Providing comprehensive research management support to the Head of Programme and Faculty of Cellular Genetics
  • Collaborating across various internal departments, as well as our external funders and collaborators to deliver grant applications and management, contracts and ethical agreements

Project Management 

  • Providing project management support to key projects across the Programme, including 3rd party funding and internal initiatives
  • Supporting project planning, tracking and reporting, and risk management

Team Administration 

  • Taking care of administrative tasks to enable scientific staff to dedicate time to scientific research
  • Overseeing diary management, email inboxes, travel arrangements, recruitment and onboarding

Process Improvement 

  • Making processes more streamlined and optimising support
  • Improving stakeholder relationships and ways of working

Scientific Writing 

  • Providing editing and writing support for papers, grant applications, presentations and more
  • Providing writing workshops and training

Our goal is to handle the diverse research management and administrative tasks essential to the delivery of our sciences, leaving our Faculty Teams free to focus on research activities and scientific strategy. Alongside efficient delivery, we aim to improve processes, reduce costs and improve wellbeing.

Core team

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Mrs Purnima Anhal

Executive Administrator

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Dr Francesca Beaton

Research Management Team Lead - Cellular Genetics Programme

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Anna Davies

Project Manager

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Dr Loren Gibson

Senior Research Manager

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Ellen Hinks

Management Trainee

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Dr Aidan Maartens

Senior Scientific Writer

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Anna Milizia

Team Administrator

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Catriona Nicholas

Team Administrator

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Tapiwa Tungamirai

Research Manager

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Henry Whiley

Research Manager

Previous core team members

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Gillian Currie

Research Administrator

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Dr Paul Gibson

Head of Project & Research Management

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Dr Bethan Hussey

Former Research Manager

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