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Ms Sophie Archard

Research Strategy, Planning and Performance Manager
HLS Research & Impact Directorate Professional Services
Part of
HLS Research & Impact Directorate
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences

About

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

My role is to support decision making on where to go and how to get there. I’m Research Strategy, Planning and Performance Manager in the Directorate, and my specialisms are business intelligence and finance. I joined the University in 2014 as a research co-ordinator in the Institute of Psychology, Health and Society, then moved to what used to be the Faculty Research and Impact team in 2017. After Project SHAPE, I was appointed to my current post in the new Research and Impact Directorate. Previously, I was a bid developer in Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and prior to that, in BI and finance related posts in local authorities and the NHS.

I work with all four Institutes and the other four Directorates in the Faculty, and with the other two Faculties’ Research and Impact teams and the central Research and Impact Strategy team. The areas I personally lead on are below and anyone would be welcome to contact me with any queries.

RI&D lead for:
• RSPP team general contact
• Research activity reporting, including:
o Aligned to CREATE and Strategy 2031 ambitions, including HESA cost centre co-ordination
o Faculty, Institute and Directorate requirements. Please do get in touch with any requests
o Support for wider University activities to automate and centralise reporting
o Support for wider University system development
• Annual Output Evaluation Programme
• REF2029, including:
o Governance
o Eligibility
o Contribution to Knowledge and Understanding (outputs) preparations
o Professional Services support co-ordination across the Faculty

Committee/Group roles:
• HLS Faculty Research and Impact Strategy Committee (FRISC) Secretary