Meet the team
Information on our staff who work on collaboration and innovation.
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Key responsibilities
- Development and delivery of Ulster University’s Research & Impact Strategy
- Operational leadership of the Department for Research & Impact
- Chief Executive of Innovation Ulster Limited, the University’s commercialisation company
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Key responsibilities
- Leadership in delivery of Ulster’s Institutional Knowledge Exchange Strategy
- Strategic leadership for commercial and non-commercial research impact
- Public engagement for dissemination of Ulster’s research base
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Key responsibilities
- Championing the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships programme (KTP) and adding value through research income generation
- Stimulating leading Knowledge Exchange collaborations between the University’s researchers and N.I. businesses
- Delivering demonstrable results for the University’s Research & Impact Agenda
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Key responsibilities
- Assisting academic founders to identify, shape and appropriately structure spinout opportunities
- Educating and training University researchers in commercialisation, demonstrating its contribution to research impact
- Enhancing the growth and value of the existing Ulster portfolio companies
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Key responsibilities
- Validating economic potential of research outcomes and developing commercial impact
- Championing the Proof of Concept programme institutionally
- Educating and training University researchers in commercialisation, demonstrating its contribution to research impact
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Key responsibilities
- Manage, support and promote Ulster’s Knowledge Exchange product provision (Consultancy, Innovation vouchers and FUSION)
- Champion Knowledge Exchange, representing the university’s expertise and research capacity externally
- Contribute to Ulster’s impact agenda through the generation of knowledge exchange activity
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Key responsibilities
- Provides strategic leadership for the Doctoral College
- Chairs the Doctoral College Board and represents the DC at senior level in the university and externally
- Policy development for postgraduate research at Ulster
Tim Brundle
Director of Research and Impact
Research & Impact
Fiona McElroy
Head of Innovation & Impact
Innovation & Impact
Amanda Fullerton
Knowledge Exchange Manager - KTP
Innovation & Impact
Fergus Begley
Start Up Manager
Innovation & Impact
Dr John MacRae
Commercialisation Manager
Innovation & Impact
Kerry Patterson
Knowledge Exchange Manager - Consultancy
Innovation & Impact
Professor Marie Murphy
Dean of Postgraduate Research and Director of the Ulster Doctoral College
Ulster University Doctoral College
Chris Shannon
Student Enterprise & Entrepreunership Manager (Students' Union)
Uusu Finance Team