Experience

Insigneo Institute for in silico medicine

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Marketing and Communications Officer

  • May 2017 - Present

  My role is to make strategic improvements to the marketing and communications activities within Insigneo to improve effectiveness and to raise the profile of the Institute. Including, developing and implementing a Marketing and Communications Strategy, developing the Institute's on-line content, social media, and communicating and promoting a range of events and activities.The Insigneo Institute for in silico Medicine is an initiative between the University of Sheffield's Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine, and the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust. Insigneo will realise the scientific ambition behind the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH), producing a transformational impact on healthcare. Insigneo performs cutting edge research in areas of fundamental and applied biomedical modelling, imaging and informatics. It will pursue the research agenda of the VPH initiative; in particular, in the first five years it will focus on the Digital Patient, in Silico Clinical Trials, and Personal Health Forecasting. It will achieve transformational impact on healthcare through multidisciplinary collaboration in strategic areas, which initially will include personalised treatments and independent, active and healthy ageing.



The University of Sheffield

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Digital Communications Officer, Imagine Project

  • Oct 2015 - Aug 2017

  My role is to assist with the delivery of a strategy for improving communications with key stakeholders. The Imagine project is a five year Connected Communities project running from 2013-2017 funded by The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) which brings together a range of research projects working together across universities and their local communities. The research is being undertaken through a consortium with Sheffield University leading on the Cultural Making of Civic Engagement. The other universities are Edinburgh, Durham, Brighton and Huddersfield. The focus is on imagining better communities through the arts and humanities. The bid was co-produced with community partners and represents the Civic University in action with a broad public engagement vision representing the future of engaged research.

• Communications Officer, NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR)

  • May 2015 - May 2017

  My role is to implement and evaluate the school’s Communications Strategy, liaising with a broad range of stakeholders across the school’s partner institutions and external partners, to promote the work of the school.Established in April 2012, with a total budget of £20 million over 5 years, the NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR) aims to build the evidence base for effective public health practice by bringing together England’s leading public health research expertise in one virtual organisation.The school is a partnership between 8 leading centres of academic public health research excellence. The member centres are as follows: the Universities of Sheffield (lead), Bristol, Cambridge, Exeter, UCL; The London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); the LiLaC collaboration between the Universities of Liverpool and Lancaster and Fuse; The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, a collaboration between Newcastle, Durham, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside Universities.



NIHR (National Institute for Health and Care Research)

• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Communications Officer - NIHR School for Public Health Research

  • May 2015 - May 2017

  My role is to implement and evaluate the school’s Communications Strategy, liaising with a broad range of stakeholders across the school’s partner institutions and external partners, to promote the work of the school.Established in April 2012, with a total budget of £20 million over 5 years, the NIHR School for Public Health Research (NIHR SPHR) aims to build the evidence base for effective public health practice by bringing together England’s leading public health research expertise in one virtual organisation.The school is a partnership between 8 leading centres of academic public health research excellence. The member centres are as follows: the Universities of Sheffield (lead), Bristol, Cambridge, Exeter, UCL; The London School for Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM); the LiLaC collaboration between the Universities of Liverpool and Lancaster and Fuse; The Centre for Translational Research in Public Health, a collaboration between Newcastle, Durham, Northumbria, Sunderland and Teesside Universities.



The Mercury Centre (The University of Sheffield)

• Marketing and Administration Officer

  • Jan 2011 - Sep 2015

  Responsible for the marketing communications for the Mercury Centre Innovative Materials and Manufacturing research centre. The Mercury Centre is an £11.5m research centre, part financed by the European Regional Development Fund, that aims to support the Yorkshire and Humber region's economic development by enabling industry to secure a globally leading position through faster time to market for new sectors.The Centre offers access to the latest innovative near net shape manufacturing technology that can add functionality, improve product quality, reduce costs and eliminate process steps.



Mercury Centre

• Marketing and Administration Officer

  • Jan 2011 - Sep 2015



Jefferson Sheard Architects

• PR & Communications Manager

  • 2007 - 2010

• Customer Relationship Manager

  • 2003 - 2007

• Secretary/Receptionist

  • 1999 - 2003