andrew smith

International Research Manager in the United Kingdom

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academic - scientific - public sectors

contract delivery - budget control

governance - ethics

communication infrastructure - public outreach - team building

Graduated 1980: St Catharine's College, Cambridge University Economics Tripos

I worked for international businesses in UK to 1995 when our family moved to New Zealand.

I was Senior Economist at science-engineering-environmental-infrastructure consultancy, then Corporate Planner at Dunedin City Council and Strategy Advisor at NZ Institute for Crop & Food Research.

I returned to England in 2006 as Executive Manager - Major Projects for the Biomedical Science Department of Sheffield University, the admin lead for a portfolio of EU-funded projects.

To 2011 at Sheffield University I managed the EU projects EStools and IPODD.

2010-12 I helped develop MC ITN TRUST at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals, supported participation by Sheffield in EuroStemCell and RoboCom, and of DMU in THE ISSUE.

2012-14 at Glasgow University I managed IBIS EU Project.

2014-18 at Edinburgh University I was Project / Centre Manager with the Administrative Data Research Centre - Scotland.

2018-22 Research Programme manager at Cambridge University's Centre for Digital Built Britain.

Since 2022 Coordinator at Centre for Logistics and Sustainability at Heriot-Watt University