Andrew Smith
Centre Coordinator
I have been managing and supporting a portfolio of large EU- and UKRI-funded projects, leading the administration of contractual and operational requirements, leaving the lead science coordinator in each project to get on with doing the science.
Areas of interest
- Research Programme and Project Support
Qualifications
- BA Economics University of Cambridge 1980
- MA University of Cambridge 2020
- Prince2 Practitioner in Project Management 2021
Background
To 2011 at University of Sheffield I managed esTOOLS, an integrated project in hESCs and iPSCs, and IPODD; and 2010-12 the development of the Marie Curie Initial Training Network TRUST at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. I was briefly Governance task leader in the FP7 Coordinating Action RoboCom. From 2012 at University of Glasgow I was the Project Coordinator for the EU INTERREG IVA IBIS project, developing tools for aquatic resources management, based at SCENE on Loch Lomond; and in parallel was evaluator of Aqua-tnet, the EU-funded European Thematic Network in the field of aquaculture, fisheries and aquatic resources management. From 2014 I was Business Project Manager with ADRC-S, the Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland, at the University of Edinburgh’s Bioquarter-based data science hub, one of the BEIS/ESRC Big Data Network Phase I investments From November 2018 I was Research Programme Manager at CDBB, the Centre for Digital Built Britain at Cambridge University.
From April 2022 I am Centre Coordinator at the Centre for Logistics and Sustainability at Heriot-Watt University. From June 2023 this includes the EPSRC-funded TransiT hub.