Meet the team

Tim Brundle

Director of Research and Impact

Research & Impact

• 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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Fiona McElroy

Head of Innovation & Impact

Innovation & Impact

• 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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Amanda Fullerton

Knowledge Exchange Manager - KTP

Innovation & Impact

• 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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Feargal Cosgrove

Licensing Manager

Innovation & Impact

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Fergus Begley

Start Up Manager

Innovation & Impact

• 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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Dr John MacRae

Commercialisation Manager

Innovation & Impact

• 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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Sinead Hunter

Intellectual Property Manager

Research Governance

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Kerry Patterson

Knowledge Exchange Manager - Consultancy

Innovation & Impact

• 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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Professor Marie Murphy

Dean of Postgraduate Research and Director of the Ulster Doctoral College

Ulster University Doctoral College

• 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

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Chris Shannon

Student Enterprise & Entrepreunership Manager

Uusu Finance Team

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