ESPA - Key Persons


Andew Leslie

Job Titles:
  • Department for International

Atiq Rahman

Job Titles:
  • Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies ( Co - Chair )

Becky Murray

Job Titles:
  • Impact Manager
Role: Responsible for delivering ESPA's impact strategy and ensuring that knowledge generated by the ESPA programme is made as accessible as possible to relevant stakeholders in order to maximise the programme's influence on policy and practice. She was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research into Results Limited.

Beth Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC )

Bouchra Chakroune

Job Titles:
  • Impact and Reporting Specialist
Role: Responsible for impact related reporting to ESPA's funders and working with ESPA's researchers, local partners and project staff to build programme impact, promote research into use and to synthesis lessons emerging from ESPA research to support and improve evidence based decision-making. She was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research into Results Limited.

Dave Bell

Job Titles:
  • Programme Events Co - Ordinator
Role: Managed, planned and co-ordinated national and global events, and the associated budget, reporting, travel and accommodation logistics. He was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research Into Results Limited

Dominique Butt

Job Titles:
  • Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC )

Dr Kate Schreckenberg

Job Titles:
  • Director
Role: Provided scientific leadership and was responsible for leading the ESPA community as they worked together to synthesise scientific findings and programmatic learning - as well as on engagement with strategic partners - to secure ESPA's legacy. Led the Directorate's Senior Management Team with oversight of all Directorate activities. She was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research Into Results Limited.

Eeli Lee

Job Titles:
  • Ordinator
  • Programme Co - Ordinator
Role: Supported Directorate activities with a focus on financial coordination and day to day planning and monitoring alongside quarterly and annual programme reporting. Supplemented management of research project data to support research into use, communications and legacy. She was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research into Results Limited.

Eliane Reid

Job Titles:
  • Operations Manager
Role: Responsible for the successful operational delivery of the Directorate's programme of work, in line with the strategic goals set by the ESPA Director and the programme's funders. Part of the Directorate's Senior Management Team, with responsibility for strategic long-term planning, ensuring effective delivery of results and reporting of ESPA Directorate activities. She was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research Into Results Limited.

James Gigg

Job Titles:
  • Data and Communications Intern
Role: Supported data collection, management, quality assurance and analysis to support the programme's monitoring and evaluation and reporting as well as wider communications and website redevelopment. He was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research into Results Limited

Katrina Brown

Job Titles:
  • University of Exeter ( Co - Chair )

Liz Carlile

Job Titles:
  • Communications Advisor
Role: Director of Communications at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED); she advised the overall ESPA programme on communications matters. Her interests include research communications and policy influence, strategic marketing communications, communication and marketing strategy, writing for policy, working with the media, research communication monitoring and evaluation. Liz has also been a member of Mid Term Review panels for DFID-funded research programme consortia and a member of an ESRC funding assessment panel.

Mahesh Poudyal

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
Role: Supported programme-wide academic synthesis activities and a process of over-arching synthesis culminating in a book chapter and a journal paper, taking the lead on responsive demand-led synthesis activities, and supporting the general legacy-building activities of the ESPA Programme. He was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research into Results Limited.

Mairi Dupar

Job Titles:
  • Communications Specialist
Role: Responsible for strategic communications and engagement across a wide range of stakeholder groups, to share ESPA's science and programmatic lessons learned effectively. Included producing ESPA's summary for policy-makers, editing multiple publications for general audiences, commissioning and co-directing multiple films and guiding redevelopment of ESPA's website. She was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research into Results Limited.

Mary Day

Job Titles:
  • Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC )

Sam Mwangi

Job Titles:
  • Advisor

Simon Kerley

Job Titles:
  • Natural Environment Research Council ( NERC )

Sophie Martin

Job Titles:
  • Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC )

Steve Bass

Job Titles:
  • International Institute for Environment and Development ( Chair )

Tobias Nyumba

Job Titles:
  • Associate
Role: Supported development of the professional development course - training materials for African university lecturers to deliver to their students. He was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research into Results Limited.

Valeria Izzi

Job Titles:
  • Impact and Learning Specialist
Role: Contributed to maximising the accessibility of research findings to policy-makers and development practitioners with the aim of achieving significant and sustainable development. Supported ESPA activities to build impact and to ensure that knowledge generated by research projects and a number of other related programmes were made accessible to relevant stakeholders. She was based at the University of Edinburgh, Research into Results Limited.