The Team
The Academic Engagement and Open Research teams work together to support staff and postgraduate students in their teaching and research. Find out more about the support each team offers below.
Academic Engagement Team
We offer advice, information, resources and support on:
- Reading list support
- Staff development
- Resource enquiries – print and digital
- Research
- Copyright
- Specialist support for students with SpLD
- Accessibility Guidance
- Academic skills – UniSkills
- Panopto
- Blackboard
As new resources, tools and software become available, we will work with you to explore how they can benefit you and your students. We attend Programme Boards to provide updates and answer queries and will be happy to attend other meetings and provide team training when requested.
Sonia Edwards
Academic Engagement Manager
Fariba Bannerman
Academic Liaison and Engagement Advisor
Olwen Pennington
Academic Liaison and Engagement Advisor
Open Research Team
We support open access publishing and research data management. We also encourage colleagues to consider other open options, like opening up the research lifecycle.
If you are considering adopting more open practices or have experiences of open practices, please get in touch with Judith Carr, Head of Open Research Services.
Judith Carr
Head of Open Research Services
Esther Byrom
Research Data Manager
Helen Bell
Academic Engagement Specialist
Rosie Sumner
Scholarly Communications Coordinator