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Research and Innovation Services supports the development, delivery, and impact of research across City St George’s. The Directorate brings together specialist teams who provide end-to-end support - from securing funding to managing partnerships and commercialising outcomes.
We work with City St George’s researchers and external partners to provide a professional support service to enable research and innovation. Research and Innovation Services operate a business partnering support model, with staff in most teams aligned to City St George’s six Schools.
Download our full Research and Innovation organisation chart (PDF).
Mark Cranmer
Email: Mark.Cranmer@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Patrycja Rzepka
Email: Patrycja.Rzepka@citystgeorges.ac.uk
This team provides comprehensive support throughout the development and submission of research funding applications. The team are also responsible for the dissemination of research funding opportunities, research security and due diligence issues.
Dr Claudia Kalay
Dr Dilly Tawakkul
This specialist team provides support for the set-up, governance and management of clinical research studies, ensuring all research is conducted in line with regulatory standards.
City St George’s provides clinical research management and governance support jointly with St George’s, Epsom and St Helier Hospital Group through the JCRO. All University researchers undertaking clinical research projects are supported, for local, national and international clinical research studies.
Responsible for overseeing the financial lifecycle of research and innovation projects, this team works with researchers to ensure effective financial management in accordance with funder terms and conditions and in liaison with funding bodies.
The Contracts team negotiates, drafts, and facilitates agreements that underpin research and innovation activity, ensuring that contracts are put in place with all partners to enable research and innovation and protect the researcher’s and University’s interests.
This team facilitates consultancy and partnerships with external organisations, contract research, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and a wide range of knowledge‑exchange activities that extend the university’s impact both within the UK and worldwide.
sbrv374@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Focused on protecting and commercialising the university’s research outputs, this team manages patents, licensing, spinouts, and the development of new Intellectual property opportunities.
City Ventures offers entrepreneurship education and support programmes for students, alumni and the City of London startup community, including two modern co‑working incubators at Better Space (127 Farringdon Road) and Venture Space (Bayes Business School, Bunhill Row).
Entrepreneurship Operations Officer
Who to contact for what, within Research and Innovation Services, organised by School.
Contact for support with: Guidance on developing and submitting research funding applications and dissemination of funding opportunities.
Research Support Services Manager for SHMS (Tooting and Clerkenwell)
Peter Aggar
peter.aggar.1@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Clerkenwell
Centre of Cognition and Neuroscience
Centre for Health & Care Innovation Research
Centre for Language and Communication Science Research
Centre of Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health
Centre for Mental Health Research
Centre for Applied Vision Research
Centre for Food Policy
Acute and Clinical Care Research Group
City St George's Research Radiographer Group
Targeted Therapy Technology Research Group
Organisational Wellbeing and Leadership Research Group
Creative Health & Wellbeing Research Group
Ewa Azizali
Ewa.Azizali@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Tooting
Institute for Infection & Immunity (except for Neonatal and Paediatric Infection (CNPI))
Oliver Palmer
opalmer@citystgeorges.ac.uk
(The James Hope) Cardiovascular Research Institute
Neuroscience and Cell Biology Research Institute
Centre for Cellular Mechanisms of Disease Centre
Population Health Research Centre
Centre for Co-production & Participatory Research Centre
Centre for Healthcare Education Research Centre
Adeyemi Adebiyi
adeadebi@citystgeorges.ac.uk
For all EC/ECR grant funding submissions
Dilly Tawakkul
Dilly.Tawakkul.1@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Institute for Infection & Immunity (Neonatal and Paediatric Infection (CNPI))
Centre for Health, Environment, Development, and Global Equity Institute
Katrina Sansum
Karen.Samuel@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Contact for support with: Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions.
For all EC/ECR grants
Adenike Badekale-Adeyemi
Adenike.Badekale-Adeyemi@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Fathima Ahamed
fathima.ahamed@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Idrish Dudhwala
idrish.dudhwala@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Jacob Ukeme
ukeme.jacob@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Jose Zambrano-Navarro
jzambran@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Ashraf Asmal
Ashraf.Asmal.3@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Vacant
TBC
Contact for support with: Negotiating, drafting and managing agreements to enable research and protect the researcher and University.
Stas Vasiljevs
&
Gabriel Chin
svasilje@sgul.ac.uk
gchin@citystegorges.ac.uk
Lorena Goldsmith
lorena.goldsmith@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Contact for support with: Partnerships with external organisations including consultancy, contract research, KTPs and wider knowledge‑exchange activities.
All
Rebecca Paulraj
Victoria Bemmer
Rebecca.Paulraj@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Victoria.Bemmer@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Contact for support with: Protection and commercialisation of research outputs including patents, licensing, spinouts and new IP opportunities.
Powlami Ghosh
Powlami.Ghosh@citystgeorges.ac.uk>
Talal Ous (covering for vacant Research Support Services Officer role)
Talal.Ous.1@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Stephen Lahiff
stephen.lahiff@citystgeorges.ac.uk
SL Day
Khalid Shukri
kshukri@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Research Support Services
Guidance on developing and submitting research grant funding applications and dissemination of funding opportunities (Except EC/ERC grant funding)
George Fadiora
George.Fadiora@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Research and Innovation Finance
Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions.
For all EC/ECR grants:
Research and Innovation Contracts
Negotiating, drafting and managing agreements to enable research and protect the researcher and University.
Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange
Partnerships with external organisations including consultancy, contract research, KTPs and wider knowledge‑exchange activities.
Danny Tyler
danny.tyler@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Intellectual Property and Commercialisation
Protection and commercialisation of research outputs including patents, licensing, spinouts and new IP opportunities.
Tia Khan
T.Khan@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions, for all EC/ECR grants
Guidance on developing and submitting research funding applications and dissemination of funding opportunities.
Pedro Centeno
Pedro.Centeno@citystgeorges.ac.uk
For all EC/ERC grant funding submissions
Caroline Sipos
caroline.sipos@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Guidance on developing and submitting research grant funding applications and dissemination of funding opportunities (Except Ec/ERC grant funding)
Ukeme Jacob
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