Meet the Team
Name: Martin Longstaff Position: Head of Research and Development Support
Email: m.longstaff@uel.ac.uk,Tel: 020 8223 7485, Mob: 07725 794264
Key responsibilities: Martin is responsible for managing the ReDS team and developing the team strategy to support the university's research and knowledge exchange income-generation activity.
Name: Sean Tonkin Position: Research Development Manager
Email: s.tonkin@uel.ac.uk, Tel: 020 8223 6450
Key responsibilities: Sean is responsible for Research Development team and manages the UEL research development activity.
Name: Tom Egan Position: External Funding Officer
Email: t.egan@uel.ac.uk, Tel: 020 8223 6352
Key responsibilities: Tom is responsible for providing accountabilities support for externally funded projects and supporting staff with externally funded contracts.
Email: s.weirauch@uel.ac.uk Tel: 020 8223 2731
Key responsibilities: Sonja is responsible for advising on and distributing funding opportunities to academic staff and for supporting the application process up to submission. Sonja also supports colleagues with external funding contracts.
Email: smather@uel.ac.uk Tel: 020 8223 7349
Key responsibilities: Simon is responsible for supporting academics in the development and submission processes of research funding applications. He also updates the UEL Research Funding blog, which includes searching for funding opportunities, and supports staff with external funding contracts.
Email: M.Devereaux@uel.ac.uk Tel: 020 8223 7485
Key responsibilities: Michelle is responsible for developing and overseeing innovative projects to benefit UEL, its partners and our learning and business community.
Email: h.chaplin@uel.ac.uk Tel: 020 8223 7100
Key responsibilities: Hannah is responsible for coordinating UEL’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) submission from an operational perspective.
