# Pre-Award Teams

**Source**: https://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/sciences/faculty-research-operations/faculty-research-operations-pre-award/
**Parent**: https://www.york.ac.uk/about/departments/sciences/faculty-research-operations/

## Pre-Award teams

The pre-award teams are working with academics to create budgets, handling pre-award approvals processes and project management of submission process.

### Pre-Award Team 1

*Use your departmental email address below to contact the team:*

- Biology - [biol-research-office@york.ac.uk](mailto:biol-research-office@york.ac.uk)
- Chemistry - [chem-research@york.ac.uk](mailto:chem-research@york.ac.uk)
- Environment & Geography - [environment-research@york.ac.uk](mailto:environment-research@york.ac.uk)
- Psychology - [psychology-research-support@york.ac.uk](mailto:psychology-research-support@york.ac.uk)

| Staff member | Role and working days |
| --- | --- |
| Hayley Taylor | Pre-Award Team Leader (maternity leave cover, to October 2026)  *Monday to Thursday* |
| Laura Smith | Pre-Award Team Leader  *On maternity leave* |
| Jane McCarthy | Pre-Award Grant Coordinator  *Monday to Thursday* |
| Laura Tissiman | Pre-Award Grant Coordinator  *Tuesday and Thursday* |
| Hannah Lee-Fessey | Pre-Award Grant Coordinator  *Monday to Friday* |
| Marie Fleming | Pre-Award Grant Officer  *Monday to Friday* |
| Ciaran Ogilvie | Pre-Award Grant Officer  *Monday to Friday* |
| Heather Oldfield Steenson | Pre-Award Grant Officer                                *Monday to Friday* |
| Martha Harrold | Pre-Award Grant Officer                                   *Monday to Friday* |

### Pre-Award Team 2

*Use your departmental email address below to contact the team:*

- Computer Science - [cs-rso@york.ac.uk](mailto:cs-rso@york.ac.uk)
- ISA - [pet-research-support@york.ac.uk](mailto:pet-research-support@york.ac.uk)
- Maths - [maths-research@york.ac.uk](mailto:maths-research@york.ac.uk)
- PET - [pet-research-support@york.ac.uk](mailto:pet-research-support@york.ac.uk)

| Staff member | Role and working days |
| --- | --- |
| Catherine Jardine | Pre-Award Team Leader  *Monday to Friday* |
| Paul Rosen | Pre-Award Grant Coordinator  *Tuesday to Friday* |
| Warren Langthorne | Pre-Award Grant Coordinator  *Monday to Friday* |
| Vicky Jackson | Pre-Award Grant Coordinator  *Monday to Thursday and alternate Fridays* |
| Miyako Shimoji | Pre-Award Grant Officer  *Monday to Friday (Friday AM only)* |
| Kathryn Davies | Pre-Award Grant Coordinator  *(part-days except Wednesday)* |
| Rachel Adamson | Pre-Award Grant Coordinator  *(part-days across the week)* |

**Team members are contactable by Zoom phone; please pre-arrange any phone or Zoom meeting unless urgent.**

Health Sciences, HYMS and SEIY are separately supported by embedded PSS teams. Please contact the relevant team directly if you are based in these departments/centres.