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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.

People

Director of Research and Innovation Services

Mark Cranmer

Email: Mark.Cranmer@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Operations Officer

Patrycja Rzepka

Email: przepka@citystgeorges.ac.uk

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Research Support Services

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.

NameTitleEmail address
Dr Claudia Kalay Head of Research Support Services claudia.kalay.1@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Ann Strydom Research Support Services Manager (Operations) ann.strydom@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Dr Dilly Tawakkul Research Support Services Manager (EU)  d.tawakkul@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Dr Talal Ous Research Support Services Manager (SST, Bayes, Law, SPGA, SCC) talal.ous.1@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Peter Aggar Research Support Services Manager (SHMS) peter.aggar.1@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Adeyemi Adebiyi Senior Research Support Services Officer adeadebi@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Ewa Azizali Senior Research Support Services Officer ewa.azizali@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Pedro Centeno Senior Research Support Services Officer pedro.centeno@citystgeorges.ac.uk
George Fadiora Senior Research Support Services Officer george.fadiora@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Oliver Palmer Senior Research Support Services Officer opalmer@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Vacant Senior Research Support Services Officer  
Vacant Senior Research Support Services Officer  
Joint Clinical Research Services (JCRO)

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.

NamePositionEmail
Vacant Head of Clinical Research Services and Co‑Lead of Joint Clinical Research Office  
Georgia Bullock Clinical Research Governance Manager gbullock@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Shivani Patel Clinical Research Associate shpatel@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Melissa Gunc Clinical Research Associate mgunc@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Stefanie  Chan Clinical Research Associate schan@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Research and Innovation Finance

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.

NamePositionEmail
Rangika Kottahachchi Head of Research and Innovation Finance Rangika.Kottahachchi@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Jose Zambrano-Navarro Research Finance Integration Manager jzambran@citystgeorges.ac.uk
John Burkhill Senior Research and Innovation Accounting Officer (Consultancy, Studentships and Research) jburkhil@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Adenike Badekale-Adeyemi Senior Research Accounting Officer (EU) Adenike.Badekale-Adeyemi@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Roshni Dadhaniya Research and Innovation Management Accountant Roshni.Dadhaniya@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Fathima Ahamed Senior Research Accounting Officer Fathima.Ahamed@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Stephen Lahiff Senior Research Accounting Officer Stephen.Lahiff@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Tej Daswani Senior Research Accounting Officer tdaswani@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Estela Papagianni Senior Research Accounting Officer epapagia@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Saida Rashid Research and Innovation Accounting Officer Saida.Rashid@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Ukeme Jacob Research and Innovation Accounting Officer Ukeme.Jacob@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Research and Innovation Contracts

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.

NamePositionEmail
Vacant Head of Research and Innovation Contracts  
Lorena Goldsmith Research and Innovation Contracts Manager Lorena.goldsmith@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Khalim Otaki Research and Innovation Contracts Manager Khalim.Otaki@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Stas Vasiljevs Research and Innovation Contracts Manager svasilje@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Gabriel Chin Senior Research and Innovation Contracts Officer gchin@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Vacant Senior Research and Innovation Contracts Officer  
Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange

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.

NamePositionEmail
Ambalika Batra‑Penny Head of Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange (on maternity leave) abatra@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Rebecca Pulraj Acting Head of Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange rpaulraj@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Danny Tyler Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Manager Danny.Tyler@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Caroline Sipos Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Manager Caroline.Sipos@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Lale Day Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Manager Lale.Day@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Michael Drummond Knowledge Transfer Partnerships Manager Michael.Drummond@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Beth Richards Senior Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Officer brichard@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Vacant Senior Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Officer  
Vacant Senior Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Officer  
Intellectual Property and Commercialisation

Focused on protecting and commercialising the university’s research outputs, this team manages patents, licensing, spinouts, and the development of new Intellectual property opportunities.

NamePositionEmail
Ian Gibbs Head of Intellectual Property and Commercialisation Ian.Gibbs@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Powlami Ghosh Intellectual Property and Commercialisation Manager Powlami.Ghosh@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Tia Khan Intellectual Property and Commercialisation Manager (0.5 FTE) T.Khan@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Khalid Shukri Intellectual Property and Commercialisation Manager kshukri@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Vacant Intellectual Property and Commercialisation Manager (0.5 FTE)  
City Ventures

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).

NamePositionEmail
Ralph La Fontaine Head of Entrepreneurship Ralph.La-Fontaine@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Sarah Worth Partnership and Social Impact Manager Sarah.Worth@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Vacant Senior Entrepreneurship Operations Officer  
Fatima Jeylani Senior Community Officer Fatima.Jeylani.2@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Vacant Education Entrepreneurship Officer  
Vacant Marketing and Events Officer  
Vacant Venture Space Officer  
Hatidzhe Mehmed Community Assistant Hatidzhe.Mehmed.2@citystgeorges.ac.uk
Vacant Community Assistant  

Research and Innovation Contacts by School

Who to contact for what, within Research and Innovation Services, organised by School.

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School of Health & Medical Sciences (SHMS)

Team: Research Support Services

Contact for support with: Guidance on developing and submitting research funding applications and dissemination of funding opportunities.

SHMS Research GroupsNameEmail

Research Support Services Manager for SHMS (Tooting and Clerkenwell)

Peter Aggar

peter.aggar.1@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Clerkenwell

Ewa Azizali

Ewa.Azizali@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Tooting- Infection and Immunology

Oliver Palmer

opalmer@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Tooting – other

Adeyemi Adebiyi

adeadebi@citystgeorges.ac.uk

For all EC/ECR grant funding submissions

Dilly Tawakkul

Dilly.Tawakkul.1@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Team: Research and Innovation Finance

Contact for support with: Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions.

SHMS Research GroupsNameEmail

For all EC/ECR grants

Adenike Badekale-Adeyemi

Adenike.Badekale-Adeyemi@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Clerkenwell

  • Department of Global, Public and Population Health and Policy
  • Department of Nursing and Midwifery

Fathima Ahamed

fathima.ahamed@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Clerkenwell

  • Department of Psychology and Neuroscience

Idrish Dudhwala

idrish.dudhwala@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Clerkenwell

  • Department of Optometry and Visual Science
  • Department of Allied Health

Jacob Ukeme

ukeme.jacob@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Tooting

  • Research Finance Integration Manager (senior point of contact)

Jose Zambrano-Navarro

jzambran@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Tooting

  • Infection and Immunity

Estela Papagianni

epapagia@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Tooting

  • Neuroscience and Cell Biology
  • Cardiovascular and Genomics
  • Population Health

Tej Daswani

tdaswani@citystgeogres.ac.uk

Tooting

  • Infection and Immunity
  • Cardiovascular and Genomics

John Burkhill

jburkhil@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Team: Research and Innovation Contracts

Contact for support with: Negotiating, drafting and managing agreements to enable research and protect the researcher and University.

SHMS Research GroupsNameEmail

Tooting

Stas Vasiljevs

Gabriel Chin

svasilje@sgul.ac.uk

gchin@citystegorges.ac.uk

Clerkenwell

Khalim Otaki

Lorena Goldsmith

khalim.otaki@citystgeorges.ac.uk

lorena.goldsmith@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Team: Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange

Contact for support with: Partnerships with external organisations including consultancy, contract research, KTPs and wider knowledge‑exchange activities.

SHMS Research GroupsNameEmail

All

Rebecca Paulraj

rpaulraj@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Team: Intellectual Property and Commercialisation

Contact for support with: Protection and commercialisation of research outputs including patents, licensing, spinouts and new IP opportunities.

SHMS Research GroupsNameEmail

All

Powlami Ghosh

Powlami.Ghosh@citystgeorges.ac.uk>

School of Science & Technology (SST)
TeamContact for support with…SST Research GroupsNameEmail
Research Support Services Guidance on developing and submitting research grant funding applications and dissemination of funding opportunities (Except EC/ERC grant funding)

All

Talal Ous (covering for vacant Research Support Services Officer role)

Talal.Ous.1@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research Support Services For all EC/ERC grant funding submissions

All

Dilly Tawakkul

Dilly.Tawakkul.1@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

Adenike Badekale-Adeyemi

Adenike.Badekale-Adeyemi@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Finance Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions.
  • Department of Engineering
  • Department of Computer Science

Stephen Lahiff

stephen.lahiff@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Finance Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions. Department of Mathematics

Idrish Dudhwala

idrish.dudhwala@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Contracts Negotiating, drafting and managing agreements to enable research and protect the researcher and University. All

Khalim Otaki

Lorena Goldsmith

khalim.otaki@citystgeorges.ac.uk

lorena.goldsmith@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange Partnerships with external organisations including consultancy, contract research, KTPs and wider knowledge‑exchange activities. All

Lale Day

lale.day@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Intellectual Property and Commercialisation Protection and commercialisation of research outputs including patents, licensing, spinouts and new IP opportunities. All

Khalid Shukri

kshukri@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Bayes Business School
TeamContact for support with…NameEmail

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 Support Services

For all EC/ERC grant funding submissions Dilly Tawakkul Dilly.Tawakkul.1@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:

Adenike Badekale-Adeyemi

Adenike.Badekale-Adeyemi@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Finance

Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions.

Stephen Lahiff

stephen.lahiff@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Contracts

Negotiating, drafting and managing agreements to enable research and protect the researcher and University.

Khalim Otaki

Lorena Goldsmith

khalim.otaki@citystgeorges.ac.uk

lorena.goldsmith@citystgeorges.ac.uk

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

The City Law School
TeamContact for support with…NameEmail

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 Support Services

For all EC/ERC grant funding submissions Dilly Tawakkul Dilly.Tawakkul.1@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

Adenike Badekale-Adeyemi

Adenike.Badekale-Adeyemi@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Finance

Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions.

Idrish Dudhwala

idrish.dudhwala@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Contracts

Negotiating, drafting and managing agreements to enable research and protect the researcher and University.

Khalim Otaki

Lorena Goldsmith

khalim.otaki@citystgeorges.ac.uk

lorena.goldsmith@citystgeorges.ac.uk

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

School of Policy & Global Affairs (SPGA)
TeamContact for support with…NameEmail

Research Support Services

Guidance on developing and submitting research funding applications and dissemination of funding opportunities.

Pedro Centeno

Pedro.Centeno@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research Support Services

For all EC/ERC grant funding submissions

Dilly Tawakkul

Dilly.Tawakkul.1@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

Adenike Badekale-Adeyemi

Adenike.Badekale-Adeyemi@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Finance

Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions.

Idrish Dudhwala

idrish.dudhwala@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Contracts

Negotiating, drafting and managing agreements to enable research and protect the researcher and University.

Khalim Otaki

Lorena Goldsmith

khalim.otaki@citystgeorges.ac.uk

lorena.goldsmith@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange

Partnerships with external organisations including consultancy, contract research, KTPs and wider knowledge‑exchange activities.

Caroline Sipos

caroline.sipos@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

School of Communication & Creativity (SCC)
TeamContact for support with…SCC Research Groups NameEmail

Research Support Services

Guidance on developing and submitting research grant funding applications and dissemination of funding opportunities (Except Ec/ERC grant funding)

All

Pedro Centeno

Pedro.Centeno@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research Support Services

For all EC/ERC grant funding submissions

All

Dilly Tawakkul

Dilly.Tawakkul.1@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

Adenike Badekale-Adeyemi

Adenike.Badekale-Adeyemi@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Finance

Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions.

  • Department of Journalism
  • Department of Performing Arts

Ukeme Jacob

ukeme.jacob@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Finance

Financial lifecycle management of research and innovation projects in line with funder terms and conditions.

  • Department of Media, Culture and Creative Industries
  • The Violence and Society Centre

Idrish Dudhwala

idrish.dudhwala@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Research and Innovation Contracts

Negotiating, drafting and managing agreements to enable research and protect the researcher and University.

All

Khalim Otaki

Lorena Goldsmith

khalim.otaki@citystgeorges.ac.uk

lorena.goldsmith@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Business Engagement and Knowledge Exchange

Partnerships with external organisations including consultancy, contract research, KTPs and wider knowledge‑exchange activities.

All

Caroline Sipos

caroline.sipos@citystgeorges.ac.uk

Intellectual Property and Commercialisation

Protection and commercialisation of research outputs including patents, licensing, spinouts and new IP opportunities.

All

Tia Khan

T.Khan@citystgeorges.ac.uk

 

 

 

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