RIS Impact Team

Research Impact Team

The Research Impact team is based in Research and Impact Services (R&IS). We offer support and expertise throughout the impact journey - from developing an idea and stakeholder mapping, to evaluation and evidence gathering.

The Research Impact Managers work centrally within R&IS to support and advise each faculty on impact planning and strategy, embedding impact into grant applications, and all matters pertaining to impact in the REF. The team also manages a multi-million-pound portfolio of institutional grants for research impact. Get in touch for:

Strategic advice on developing pathways to impact - via external engagement locally, regionally, nationally and internationally
Guidance on how to embed impact into funding bids
Advice on policy engagement opportunities and support for the development of policy briefs.
Support to track and record evidence of research impact
Delivery of the impact component of the Research Excellence Framework

Head of Research Impact

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Carolyn Silvester

Head of Research Impact (Assistant Director, Research and Impact Services)

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Faculty of Arts

Emma Roberts

Research Impact Manager

Emma joined the Impact Team in 2018, originally as an Impact Coordinator supporting the Faculty of Arts. She provides advice and training for academics to develop impact from their research, as well as managing the Arts and Humanities Impact Fund.

This post is currently vacant.

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Impact Support Officer (Faculty of Arts) - currently vacant

The Impact Support Officer provides support for researchers in the Faculty of Arts to plan, run and evaluate their Impact activities.

Faculty of Social Sciences

Dr Kathryn van de Wiel

Research Impact Manager

Departments: Economics; School of Law; Philosophy; Politics and International Studies

Kathryn joined the team in 2021, first as an Impact Support Officer in the Faculty of Arts and then later becoming a Research Impact Manager for the Faculty of Social Sciences. She has a PhD in Classics and Ancient History and has previously worked in widening participation to Higher Education. Kathryn programme-manages the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account together with her colleague, Helen.

Dr Helen Ackers

Research Impact Manager - on Maternity Leave until September 2025. Helen's post is being covered by Dr Lesley Chikoore.

Departments: Warwick Business School; Institute of Employment Research; Sociology; Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies; School of Education, Learning and Communication Sciences (comprising Applied Linguistics; Centre for Research into Intellectual and Development Disabilities (CIDD); Centre for Lifelong Learning; Centre for Teacher Education; and Education Studies)

Helen joined the team in 2021 from the University of Birmingham. She programme-manages the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account together with Kathryn van de Wiel.

Claire Wragg

Research Impact Coordinator

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Emily Woodruff

Research Impact Coordinator

Emily joined the team in 2023 and supports the development of impact in the Faculty of Social Sciences. This includes the administration of the ESRC IAA and the Policy Support Fund, as well as supporting with capacity building through impact-related training, events and activities.

Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine

Grace Prewett

Research Impact Manager

Departments: Chemistry; Computer Science; Engineering; Physics; WMG

Grace joined Warwick in 2018 to support the University’s portfolio of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs), and then moved into the Impact Team as Research Impact Manager for the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine in 2020.

She oversees the programme management of the EPSRC IAA, STFC IAA, and Space Sciences Fund.

Dr Rob Hollingworth

Research Impact Manager

Departments: School of Life Sciences; Statistics; Mathematics; Psychology; Warwick Medical School

Rob joined the Team in 2022 having previously worked as a postdoctoral researcher and then an Impact Development Officer at the University of Birmingham. Rob manages internal impact funding related to medical and biological sciences and supports the wider Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine to identify and support impactful research.

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Research Impact Coordinator - currently vacant

This post is currently vacant.

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Research Impact Coordinator - currently vacant

Cross-faculty Support

Dr Lesley Chikoore

Research Impact Officer

Department: Institute for Global Sustainable Development

Lesley joined the team in March 2018 and has supported researchers across the physical sciences and social sciences to develop and articulate the impact of their research, including support for Warwick’s submission to REF2021 in Main Panels A and B.

As well as providing impact support for IGSD, Lesley is responsible for developing and delivering Warwick Impact Academy’s impact training and development programme. Internally, Lesley's role also involves supporting the Impact Team in coordinating its systems and processes.

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India Holme

Research and Impact Development Manager (Regional)

India is currently working at the nexus of research development, impact and engagement, with a focus on Coventry and Warwickshire. She has prior experience working at a Local Authority, with a BA in Politics and Philosophy and MA in International Law and Politics.

India is an experienced inter-/transdisciplinary project manager with expertise in relationship building, research engagement, working with arts and cultural organisations, freelancers, and the third/voluntary/public sectors. She loves ideas, people and research and connecting them in sometimes unexpected ways, a big fan of participatory research and the phrase 'nothing about us without us', and personally interested in neurodiversity research and related projects - check out these webpages and get in touch! Place-based Research & Culture | Research at Warwick.