Cluster teams

Our Cluster Teams are Research Development and Management and Research Finance specialists who provide research development and management support and advice to academics. They do this across the research project lifecycle from idea to impact, supporting both the research development and financial elements. This includes identifying funding opportunities, coordinating bid development and costings, and supporting live projects and post project activities.

For all notifications of plans to apply for grant applications, including very early stage ideas, please add these to the Worktribe as a new research idea. Guidance on Adding Research Projects Ideas to Worktribe is available here.

Environment, Science and Economy Facing Cluster

For all day-to-day enquiries contact: ESE-ResearchCluster@exeter.ac.uk

Cluster Lead (and point of escalation): Helen Bell h.e.bell@exeter.ac.uk

Faculty Finance lead: Alex Strong: A.J.Strong@exeter.ac.uk / Ruth Banyard T.R.Banyard@exeter.ac.uk

Department Leads

Department	Department Lead
Computer Sciences	Karen Reid
Engineering	Suzannah Laver
Geography	Charlotte Vickers
Mathematics and Statistics	Daniel Chiswell
Physics and Astronomy	Daniel Chiswell
University of Exeter Business School (UEBS)	Natalie Stone
Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI)	Emma Roberts

Humanities and Social Sciences Facing Cluster

For all day-to-day enquiries contact: HASS-ResearchCluster@exeter.ac.uk

Cluster Lead (and point of escalation): Kevin Sales - kms212@exeter.ac.uk

Faculty Finance lead: Aki Iskander – A.Iskander@exeter.ac.uk

Department Leads

Department	Department Lead
Archaeology and History	Julie Mason
Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology	Julie Mason
Communications, Drama and Film	Lizzie Harris
English and Creative Writing	Pam Gurney
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies	Mandy Paull
Languages, Cultures and Visual Studies	Mandy Paull
Law School	Mandy Paull
Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy and Anthropology	Pam Gurney
School of Education	Lizzie Harris
Societies and Cultures Institute (SCI)	Kevin Sales

Health and Life Sciences Facing Cluster

For all day-to-day enquiries contact: HLS-ResearchCluster@exeter.ac.uk

Cluster Lead (and point of escalation): Roz Harrison – R.D.Harrison@exeter.ac.uk

Faculty Finance lead: Tina Sale: T.L.Sale@exeter.ac.uk

Department Leads

Department	Department Lead
Biosciences	Sarah Donovan
Clinical and Biomedical Sciences	Lucy Carpenter
Health and Care Professions	Stephanie Fletcher
Health and Community Sciences	Karolina Jaworek
Psychology	Stephanie Fletcher
Public Health and Sports Sciences	Ray Perrins
Centre for Medical Mycology (CMM)	Vicki Dunn
Living Systems Institute (LSI)/ Centre for Medical Mycology (CMM)	Matt Amesbury

Funder support

Funder	Funder Support
BBSRC	Sarah Donovan
MRC	Vicki Dunn
NIHR	Karolina Jaworek and Ray Perrins
Wellcome Trust	Lucy Carpenter

Cornwall Research Cluster

For all day-to-day enquiries contact: Cornwall-ResearchCluster@exeter.ac.uk

Cluster Lead (and point of escalation): Jen Siggs – j.m.siggs@exeter.ac.uk

Department Leads

Discipline	Discipline Lead
Ecology and Conservation	Jane Rowe
Earth and Environmental Sciences	Hannah Mackintosh
Engineering (Cornwall)	Jane Rowe
HASS Penryn	Jen Siggs
Management (Cornwall)	David Scott
European Centre for Environment and Human Health (ECEHH)	Hannah Mackintosh
Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI)	Sarah Ashton

EU and International

For all day-to-day enquiries contact: euresearch@exeter.ac.uk. Research Development raseu@exeter.ac.uk

For RD queries please contact the Cluster Lead of the appropriate cluster above

Cluster Lead (and point of escalation RF): Kevin Sales – k.m.sales@exeter.ac.uk

There are five cluster teams who each have enhanced funder expertise (see above). Three are faculty facing (ESE, HLS and HASS Clusters) and support Exeter-based academics within those faculties, one provides specific support for Cornwall-based academics (Cornwall cluster) and we have one cluster that specialises in specific support grants for EU and major international funding bodies across all areas (EU & International Cluster)

Clusters also contain specific faculty/ funder facing roles and responsibilities:

Cluster Leads: Cluster leads lead the funder clusters and are the point of escalation for project based concerns, For faculty-facing clusters, the cluster lead works with the APVC-R&I to strategically manage the project portfolio
Faculty Finance Leads: Each faculty-facing cluster has a faculty finance lead who supports the head of finance in each faculty with financial planning associated with the research portfolio
Department/ Institute Leads: All departments and University Research Institutes have a named Research Development contact who works with the DoRIs/ Institute Manager to support the strategic development of their research portfolio

Funder Expertise: Funder clusters have responsibility for having the strategic expertise and understanding of the University’s profile with specific major funders. Whilst individual bids are supported appropriately across all our clusters (depending on PI homing) the support for the Funder Advisory Networks (FANS) and for specific understanding of the funder sits with specific clusters.