Summary
As Faculty of Health Sciences Research Manager Belen supports the delivery of the Faculty Research Strategy, working closely with the Associate Dean Research, Directors of Research and Principal Investigators and provides operational leadership for the management of research activities in the Faculty. She leads a small Research Office Team with responsibility to develop service provision to support the Faculty’s research ambitions.
Belen works closely with UoH internal stakeholders involved in research management activity like the University Research & Enterprise Directorate, the Health Sciences Research Development Manager and Faculty Director of Business, Enterprise & Engagement. In addition she liaises with research funding agencies and strategic research partners like the NHS partners, including the R&D Department in the Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH).
Belen took up her appointment within the faculty on January 2019. She joined us having spent the majority of her career in research support management and administration roles at different government and research institutions in the UK and abroad. She has latterly worked at the University of York within the Research and Enterprise Directorate heading the European Research Development Team.