The Team

Dr Angus Hearmon

Research Lifecycle Programme Director

Angus is the Research IT Programme Director and IT Services Business Partner for research. 

He has a background in the chemical industry where he spent 20 years – ten years running nuclear magnetic resonance labs, and ten years running the research IT function and a knowledge management consultancy. After a few years as a management consultant covering strategic change in process industries, he joined the Civil Service on large IT projects. After eight years he became Business Development Director of a government laboratory, a role including research IT accountability. His last project in government was selling the lab to the private sector. 

Angus’s background in IT includes programming in Fortran, interfacing and networking large instrumentation, running applications development units, enterprise architecture of a large government department and developing large databases for research data. He has also consulted in knowledge management and research systems improvement. 

Angus spends his time at the University ensuring that the £15.4 million investment in the Research Lifecycle Programme maximises benefits for both researchers and the University.

Email: Angus.Hearmon@manchester.ac.uk  

 

Dr Kamie Kitmitto

Programme Manager

Kamie is a geospatial expert interested in the creation, value addition and management of data big and small.

After finishing his PhD in Geomatics Engineering at UCL and a stint in industry, he moved to Manchester in 1991 to provide consultancy and training to the academic community on the use of geospatial technologies.

Kamie is interested in the creation and utilisation of Spatial Data Infrastructure and their part in supporting, research, visualisation and analysis.

Email: Kamie.Kitmitto@manchester.ac.uk 

 

The RLP Project Team

Anthony Allen (Business Change Manager)

• Facilitate research networking and collaboration

 

Bryan Archer (Project Manager)

• Enhancing support for research: end-to-end processes
• Professional Services for research
• Digital Collections
• Improve access, export and preservation of data

 

Bill Ayres (Research Data Management Lead)

• Improve access, export and preservation of data

 

Carly Moseley (Business Change Manager)

• Databases for research
• Survey tools 

 

Caroline Hargreaves (Business Change Manager)

• Enhancing support for research: end-to-end processes
• Professional Services for research

 

Malcolm Brown (Project Manager)

• Research support interface, reporting and communications 
• Implement a costings approach and tool to model grants
• Pure Awards Management

 

Sarah Barton (Project Manager)

• Design a Research IT Innovation Community

 

Dr Simon Hood (Project Manager)

• Incrementally build compute capacity and improve access to compute resources
• High Performance Compute investments
• Streamline procurement of cloud solutions

 

Traceyanne Sinclair (Business Change Manager)

• Professional services for research
• Implement a costings approach and tool to model grants
• Facilitate research networking and collaboration

 

Dr Vivian Liang-Bradbury (Business Change Manager)

• Develop a service to manage restricted data

 

The RLP Interns

Kenta Ishikawa

Kenta has a background as an IT project manager in a Japanese government agency. He completed a Master’s in Digital Development (Management of information systems and international development) at The University of Manchester, researching effective system integration in education.

He coordinates various projects across the current Research Lifecycle Programme and provides support in new system implementation and data migration.

Freya Zhang

Freya recently finished her master’s degree of Educational Leadership in The University of Manchester and working for the Research Lifecycle Program (RLP) currently. She currently focusing on the CRM system, Research Risk Profiler (RRP) and capability map projects.