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Research Services Points of Contact Guide

The Points of Contact Guide has been designed to help you find the correct person or team to speak to about your specific query. If after using this guide you still don't know who to contact, please email research@westernsydney.edu.au

Starting point in the lifecycle of a Grant

Grants Services (Pre-Award)

  • CAT 1 and 2 Competitive Grant Submissions
  • Clearance Forms
  • Proposal / Budget Development
  • A copy of the final application (particularly if the grant has been awarded)
  • Contact the Research Development Officers at GrantsServices@westernsydney.edu.au

Business Services

  • CAT 2-4 Grant Submissions (Tenders, EOIs, RFQs, RFPs etc)
  • Clearance Forms
  • Proposal / Budget / Contract (initial review) Development, Intellectual Property advice.
  • Contact the Business Development Officers at BusinessServices@westernsydney.edu.au

Grant to be setup in RMS

Research Support and Innovation Team

  • Allocation of project code
  • Setting up project in RMS including milestone reporting and invoicing schedule.
  • Raising first invoice (assuming it is upon execution of contract)
  • Project not appearing on the Research Portal
  • First point of contact if you don’t know who to contact regarding your query
  • Contact the team at research@westernsydney.edu.au

Grant is setup and appearing on the Research Portal

Research Grants and Contracts (Post-Award)

  • Checking milestone / payment schedule (if an invoice has been raised), preparing acquittals
  • Extension requests and contact with government agencies (e.g. ARC or NHMRC) and Industry Partners
  • Contact the Grants Officers at postaward@westernsydney.edu.au

Ethics

Foreign Interference

Research Infrastructure

Research Analytics and Reporting

Other Divisions

Publications

Higher Degree Research (HDR) Candidates

Contacts

Pro Vice-Chancellor Research

Professor Kevin Dunn, Pro Vice-Chancellor Research

Ivanka Banach, Executive Assistant and Project Officer to the PVC Research
02 9678 7250

Grants Services

For general enquiries, please email GrantsServices@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Liesel Senn, Manager, Grants Development
02 4736 0928 (Ext 2928)

Dr Ben Dowswell, Research Development Officer
02 4736 0889 (Ext 2889)

  • NICM Health Research Institute
  • Translational Health Research Institute
  • School of Health Sciences
  • School of Medicine

Manijah Hakim, Research Development Officer
02 9678 7621 (Ext 7621)

  • Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture
  • Institute for Culture and Society
  • School of Business
  • School of Humanities and Communication Arts
  • School of Law
  • School of Psychology
  • School of Social Sciences

Dr Jodie Narayan, Research Development Officer
02 4736 0281 (Ext 2281)

  • Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
  • The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development
  • School of Nursing and Midwifery

Dr Uli Wagner, Research Development Officer
02 4736 0619 (Ext 2619)

  • School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences
  • School of Education
  • School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment
  • School of Science

Business Services

For general enquiries, please email BusinessServices@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Dušan Milojevic, Manager, Industry Innovation & Partnerships
02 9685 9949 | 0400 084 768

Dr André Urfer, Industry Partnerships Adviser (STEM)
02 9685 9742 | 0437 832 890

  • NICM Health Research Institute
  • The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development
  • Translational Health Research Institute (THRI)
  • School of Computer, Data and Mathematical Sciences
  • School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment
  • School of Health Sciences
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Science
  • Centre for Infrastructure Engineering

Nathanael Small, Business Development Adviser (HASS)
02 9685 9405 | 0418 244 664

  • Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment
  • Institute for Culture and Society
  • School of Business
  • School of Education
  • School of Humanities and Communication Arts
  • School of Law
  • School of Nursing and Midwifery
  • School of Psychology
  • School of Social Sciences
  • Transforming early Education and Child Health (TeEACH) Research Centre
  • Urban Transformations Research Centre
  • Young and Resilient Research Centre
  • Centre for Educational Research

Business Development Adviser (Health) (Position vacant)
02 9685 9845

Laura Robinson, Senior Administrative Officer (Monday to Thursday only)
02 9685 9800

Post-Award, Data and Systems

Gary Long, Manager, Post Award, Data and Systems
02 4736 0888 (Ext 2888)

Matthew Spencer, Research Application Administrator

Research Grants and Contracts (Post-Award)

For general enquiries, please email postaward@westernsydney.edu.au

Moufid Atme, Research Grants Officer (Wednesday to Friday only)
02 4736 0881 (Ext 2881)

Andrea Kantek, Research Grants Officer (Monday to Thursday only)
02 4736 0850 (Ext 2850)

Rick Romero, Research Contracts Coordinator (Acting)
Please email ResearchContracts@westernsydney.edu.au

James Young, Research Grants and Finance Officer
02 4736 0811 (Ext 2811)

Research Support and Innovation Team

For general enquiries, please email research@westernsydney.edu.au

Sunil Chand, Coordinator, Systems, Process Enhancement and Innovation
02 4736 0846 (Ext 2846)

Sue Manning, Senior Administrative Officer, Research
02 9678 7079

Linda Schotanus, Senior Administrative Officer, Research
02 4736 0072 (Ext 2072)

Karissa Costelo, Senior Administrative Officer, Research
02 4736 0311 (Ext 2311)

Stephanie Banach, Senior Administrative Officer, Research
02 9678 7180

Craig Bromley, Senior Administrative Officer, Research

Melissa Fowler, Research Scholarships Finance Officer

Research Analytics and Reporting

For general enquiries, please email ResearchData@westernsydney.edu.au

Alison Dayes, Research Data Officer
02 9852 5382 (Ext: 5382)

Research Ethics and Integrity

Dr Shantala Mohan, Director, Research Impact and Integrity
02 4736 0581 (Ext 2581) | 0414 309 758

Aagya Nepal, Ethics & Integrity Project Officer
02 4736 0229 (Ext 2229)

Katrina Trewin, Impact Officer
02 4736 0287 (Ext 2287)

Human Ethics

Tracy Mills, Human Ethics Officer
02 4736 0278 (Ext 2278)

Ann Ahern, Human Ethics Officer
02 4736 0320 (Ext 2320)

To contact the Human Ethics team, please email HumanEthics@westernsydney.edu.au

Animal Ethics

To contact the Animal Ethics team, please email AnimalEthics@westernsydney.edu.au

Biosafety and Radiation Safety

Dr David Cheng, Ethics Officer
02 4736 0884 (Ext 2884)

For biosafety and radiation safety enquiries, please email BiosafetyRadiation@westernsydney.edu.au

Foreign Interference

Matthew Hunter, International Relations Development Manager
02 9852 5388

Shaista Khan, International Relations Education and Communications Officer
02 4736 0631 (Ext 2631)

To contact the Foreign Interference team, please email DFATreporting@westernsydney.edu.au

Researcher Development

For enquiries regarding the University's Researcher Development Program, please email ResearcherDevelopment@westernsydney.edu.au

eResearch

Dr Jeff Wang, Intersect eResearch Analyst
02 4620 3952 | 0456 269 623

Research Publications

The Library collects publications for Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) (opens in a new window)

Publications are no longer collected for the Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) (opens in a new window)

For assistance, please contact your School Librarian or the Library’s Research Engagement Team

Further information is available on the Library website

Research Infrastructure

For general enquiries, please email ResearchFacilities@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Juan Cooper, Senior Manager, Research Infrastructure
02 9678 7081 | 0432 695 960

Emma Rich, Research Facilities Administration Officer
02 9678 7091

Advanced Materials Characterisation (AMC) Facility

Dr Richard Wuhrer, Facility Research Manager
02 9685 9089 | 0411 877 476

Biomedical Magnetic Resonance (BMR) Facility

Dr Scott Willis, Facility Research Manager
02 4620 3114

Greenhouse Research Education Training Facility (RETF)

Goran Lopaticki, Facility Coordinator
02 4570 1944

Dr Wei Liang, Senior Technical Officer, Crop Management
02 4570 1946 | 0401 689 757

Mass Spectrometry Facility

Meena Mikhael, Facility Research Manager 
02 4620 3909 | 0409 819 361

Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Facility

Dr Caroline Janitz, Facility Research Manager
02 4570 1809 | 0405 396 555

For further information, please see Research Infrastructure

Our Locations

Level G, Building BA
Penrith campus (Werrington South)
Great Western Highway
Werrington NSW 2747

River Cottage, Building EV
Parramatta South campus
Victoria Road
Parramatta NSW 2150

Postal Address

Research Services
Western Sydney University
Locked Bag 1797
Penrith NSW 2751