This award celebrates consistently excellent research management and support provided by a team or an individual at Queen Mary.
Coleen is Senior Operations Manager (Pre-Award) at the QMUL-Barts NHS Trust Joint Research Management Office. In addition to leading her team she also oversees many other JRMO activities. She has 25 years’ experience in supporting researchers in submitting applications, solving problems and improving research management processes.
Over the last 5 years QMUL has put in for 7,400 bids totalling £2.5bn: all of these have been overseen by Coleen and her team.
In the past year alone, Coleen has overseen the smooth transition of a large research team to QMUL along with their portfolio of 21 research projects, 61 staff and 58 legal agreements. She has lead the development of Worktribe’s overhaul of QMUL’s core research management tool. She also stood in for the Assistant Director of the JRMO during an extended leave and represented QMUL in the NIHR assurance review of the Biomedical Research Centre plan.
In naming Coleen as the overall winner in this category, the Panel paid particular attention to her extensive efforts to mentor and support less experienced staff not just in QMUL but in partner organisations. They were also impressed by her active membership of several external networks influencing development and change in the Research Operations environment.
HSS Research Support Team (HSS) The Research Support Team in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences are a part of every aspect of the research funding lifecycle, from bid writing to post-award management. A newly formed team, in the past two years they have put in place a comprehensive set of tools to support research funding and management in the faculty. Highly Commended by the panel for their ambitious, targeted and collegiate approach to research support.
Petra Ungerer (BBS, S&E). Petra is the Technical Facilities Manager in SBBS, with responsibilities spanning three sites. In addition to her regular duties and supporting the preparation of major equipment bids, Petra has also been instrumental in generating the School’s mid to long term business continuity plan. Highly Commended by the panel for establishing a technician career development plan, encouraging technical staff to attend training and experience outside their area of expertise.
Postdoc Conference Team, Queen Mary Academy; Mark Whelan; EECS Devolved School Research Ethics Committee