Grants/Admin

This page briefly describes what I’ve done in the realms of university management (known in our world as ‘admin’), and also in externally funded research (third stream income).

Loughborough University:

* Director of the Glendonbrook Institute for Enterprise Development (May 2014 – September 2015 )

* Associate Dean for Enterprise, Loughborough University in London (LUiL) (June 2013 – February 2015)

* EPSRC sponsored ‘LEADeR champion’ (October 2012- April 2013)

* Member of Senate (2010-2014)

* Member of the Joint Senate-Council Human Resources Committee (2012-2015)

* Negotiator on the Academic and Related Staff Negotiating Committee (2010-11)

* Member of University restructuring sub-committee (2010-11)

* Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes (2009-)

* Loughborough University’s ECPR Representative (2007-)

* Secretary of the ECPR’s Standing Group on the European Union (2007-)

King’s College London

* Member of Academic Board (2006-7)

* Director of Taught Postgraduate Programmes (2006-7)

University of Bristol

* Deputy Director, Governance Research Centre (2003-6)

* Delegate to the Joint Negotiating Committee (2005)

External Examining Roles

Aberystwyth University (2010-2014)

London Metropolitan University (2004-2009)

Miscellaneous:

2015 – Judge for Shell LiveWIRE Smarter Future Awards

2015 – Member of the LV= Member Panel

Third Stream Income:

* At the University of Bristol, part of my job role was facilitating  and supporting the third stream income efforts of colleagues. My tenure coincided with a very large increase to the third stream income into the Department of Politics. I secured and delivered two consultancy projects to the European Parliament and one to Oxford Analytica, during this time, as well as acting as an advisor to the UK MoD.

* Also at the University of Bristol, I secured funding and delivered research based events for NATO (2004-5), for DFID on arms control, (2005), and secured an Institute for Advanced Studies grant to bring visiting scholars to the university.

Grants:

* CI on a major Horizon 2020 grant, held at Loughborough University.

* Michael Goodman and I won a successor grant to continue and expand the ‘Learning Lessons from the Secret Past’ project – August 2014.

* Michael Goodman and I won an AHRC grant titled ‘Learning Lessons from the Secret Past’ – March 2011, which finished in May 2013.

* I held, with Philip Davies (Brunel) an ESRC Research Workshops Grant for a series of events titled ‘Intelligence into the 21st Century’ (2008-9)

* My PhD was funded by the ESRC Doctoral Research Scheme (2000-3).

* As a matter of routine I apply twice yearly for research council, or charity grants. In this last academic session I applied for British Academy, and ESRC grants.

Consultancy:

* I have held multiple consultancy contracts with clients in the United States, the European Parliament, and British industry.

Evidence:

I have provided evidence to the House of Commons, and to the European Parliament.