
The Team
Dr Robert Haines
Research Lifecycle Programme Director
Robert is the Head of Research IT and an Honorary Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science. He is one of the originators of the term ‘Research Software Engineer’, has served for six years as an elected representative of the UK RSE Association, chaired the first conference of Research Software Engineers in 2016, and is a founding trustee of the Society of Research Software Engineering.
Robert has worked in a wide range of domains for research projects of various types and sizes from small proof-of-concept investigations up to long-term multi-partner UKRI, EU and US NSF projects. He has collaborated with diverse organisations such as utility companies, national laboratories, start-ups and public bodies, as well as other universities. He also contributes to a number of open-source software communities. His favourite programming language is Ruby.
Robert’s research interests include software engineering, software sustainability, software use in open and reproducible research, software citation and credit, and career paths for software engineers and data scientists. He teaches on two course units in the Department of Computer Science: ‘Software Engineering’ for second year undergraduate students and ‘Agile and Test-Driven Development’ in the taught postgraduate programme.
Email: Robert.Haines@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)
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)
Carly Moseley (Business Change Manager)
Caroline Hargreaves (Business Change Manager)
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)
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)
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.
The RLP Progamme Board
- Dr Angus Hearmon
- Dr Andrew Walsh
- Prof Chris Taylor
- Lorraine Beard
- Rachel Emmott
- Tony Brown
- Sarah March
- Dr Andrea Nini
- Dr Paul Dennington
- Dr Kamie Kitmitto
- Lita Denny
- Dr Guyda Armstrong
- Malcolm Whitehouse
- Dr David Topping
- Dr Peter Liddel
- Prof John Ainsworth
- Vikki Goddard
- Prof Carole Goble
- Dr Caroline Jay
- Prof Ian Cotton
Get in touch
Contact the programme team