About me:

Role: Emily is the Programme Lead for the SPIN Dementia Network+ for Dementia.

Profile: Emily is an experienced Programme and Innovation Manager in higher education and research funding. Following BSc and PhD research in biological sciences and molecular genetics, Emily has worked in a variety of roles within UK Universities and for Research Councils in roles relating to commercialisation of University funded research and impact.

Emily has strong experience in commercialisation and project management in research areas including Health and Environmental sciences, Biotechnology, Climate Science and Data Science.

Qualifications:

BSc, Biological Sciences, University of Exeter

PhD, Molecular Genetics, University of Leeds

MBA, Henley Business School, University of Reading

Career:

Emily was awarded her PhD in Molecular Genetics 2002, and since then has pursued a career in Knowledge Exchange of research in Universities and Research Centres. Emily worked in commercialisation and other Knowledge Exchange roles at the BBSRC, University of Warwick and NERC before joining the University of Exeter in 2012.

Emily has managed a number of UKRI and OfS funded research and network programmes within the University of Exeter including a climate network and the Institute of Coding, and has led work within the Institute for Data Science and AI as Institute Manager.  Emily has also worked with the Alan Turing Institute, the UK's national Institute for data science and AI, as University Liaison Manager.

In her current role, Emily is leading the development of a new Dementia network+, which was funded as part of a large strategic investment by the ESRC, NIHR and the Alzheimer's Society.