Before joining DPIR Francesca worked for Oxford’s Department of Materials managing a flagship DESNZ/UKRI-funded project. In this role she set up and managed a £7.5m funding scheme to enable academics and students to access labs across the UK, as well as conducting web development, funder liaison and reporting, and financial/contractual management. Prior to this, Francesca worked for ten years as a Commissioning Editor in academic and educational publishing at OUP and Taylor & Francis, supporting academics to develop book proposals and successful publications. Francesca holds an undergraduate degree and MPhil in Classics from the University of Cambridge, where she studied ancient literature, philosophy and linguistics.
Responsibilities
My key responsibilities as part of the Research Facilitation Team are:
- Pre-award support - all aspects of applications including budgets
- Administration of the OxPo exchange programme
- Leading on comms for the research team (e.g. research newsletter, research funding opportunities webpage).
Key contacts
Office hours
I am part-time and usually work the following hours:
- Mondays 8 - 3 (from home)
- Tuesdays 9.15 - 4 (from home)
- Wednesdays 9 - 4 (Manor Road Building)
- Thursdays 9.15 - 2.45 (from home)
- Fridays 9 - 4.30 (Manor Road Building)
