Research Governance

The University of Suffolk is committed to maintaining the highest standards of integrity and excellence in research. We ensure that all research undertaken by our staff and students complies with the appropriate ethical, legal and professional frameworks and procedures.

This website details the University's policies in relation to research. Further information can be found on the Transforming Lives:University of Suffolk Strategy for Research Excellence 2023-20 30

For further details about our research policies, please contact: Andreea Tocca, Head of Research Development at A.Tocca@uos.ac.uk.

Research Concordats

The links to the following Concordats for the University of Suffolk can be found below.

View the Concordats

Research Ethics

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University of Suffolk is committed to ensuring research undertaken by its staff and students is of the highest professional standard.

Research Ethics

Research Committees

Various committees to assist in the development of research in the University of Suffolk Schools.

Research Committees

Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021

The University of Suffolk REF 2021 submission

REF 2021

HR Excellence in Research Award

The University of Suffolk has achieved the European Commission HR Excellence in Research Award.

HR Excellence in Research Award

Research Governance Staff Profiles

- Professor Emma Bond

Professor Emma Bond is Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Professor of Socio-Technical Research at the University of Suffolk. As Pro Vice-Chancellor Research, Emma is a key member of our University’s Executive and Senior Leadership Team and has a significant role in driving the r...

- Andreea Tocca

Andreea has worked for the University of Suffolk since September 2010. She has a master's degree in quantitative economy (MSc), a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and an MPhil in Health and Social Care. She is an Academic with 25 years of experience in higher education and p...

- Stephen Walford

Stephen is the Head of Research Management in the University of Suffolk Research Office. ...

- Katie Tyrrell

Since joining the University of Suffolk, Katie has worked alongside local, national and international organisations to investigate the impact of interventions, programmes and service delivery upon the welfare and wellbeing of people across the lifespan using both qualitative and qua...

- Lucy Williamson

Lucy supports the Research Directorate team at the University of Suffolk, providing administrative support for the Research Institutes. Lucy is administrator for the Institute of Health and Wellbeing and the Institute for Social Justice and Crime, and also provides support to the wi...

- Sue Raychaudhuri

Sue supports the Research Directorate (RD) team at the University of Suffolk working with Professor Emma Bond, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Andreea Tocca, Head of Research Development. Sue is responsible for all research engagement activities and research governance within ...

- Dr Sarah Richards

Sarah was appointed Head of the Suffolk Doctoral College in 2021. Prior to this role she was an Associate Dean for Research in the School of Social Science and Humanities for three years. She is an Associate Professor of social policy specialising in Childhood Studies and has twenty...

- Hazel Sellers

Hazel joined the University in March 2022 and is currently working full-time as Co-ordinator of the Suffolk Doctoral College. She is responsible for processing PhD enquiries, organising inductions and social events for PGR students, co-ordinating queries, maintaining student re...

- Kerri Stevenson

Kerri is our newly appointed Postgraduate Research Academic Coordinator, working within the Suffolk Doctoral College in the Research Directorate team. Her role involves processing PhD applications and supporting students from their initial enquiry right through until the students co...

- Professor Miranda Horvath

Professor Horvath is a leading international researcher in the field of forensic psychology, specifically Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). She is co-editor of the second edition of The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology (2021, Cambridge University Press) and is curren...

- Professor Colin R. Martin

Colin R Martin is the Clinical Director of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Suffolk, UK and Professor of Clinical Psychobiology and Applied Psychoneuroimmunology. He is a Chartered Health Psychologist and a Chartered Scientist. He also trained in analy...

- Professor Valerie Gladwell

Professor Gladwell is extremely passionate about enhancing lifelong health, helping people to achieve, thrive and flourish by utilising the five ways to wellbeing: be active, take notice, give, connect and learn. ...

- Professor Darryl Newport

Darryl Newport (Professor of Energy and Sustainable Development) is the Director of the Suffolk Sustainability Institute at the University of Suffolk, UK. He is adjunct Professor of Sustainable Materials Engineering at the University of East London. He has a wide research interest...

- Dr Amanda Hodgkinson

Dr Amanda Hodgkinson SFHEA is an award-winning internationally published novelist, journalist and writer. Her writing research focuses on the representation of family relationships and narrative identity with a focus on historical fiction and the importance of place, and the role o...

- Professor Nicholas Caldwell

Professor Nicholas Caldwell is Professor of Information Systems Engineering at the University of Suffolk. He is also currently Associate Dean (Research and Knowledge Exchange) for the School of Engineering Arts Science and Technology. ...

- Professor Clare Rigg

I am Professor of Leadership & Management and Associate Dean (Research) at the University of Suffolk Business School. In my research I take a social sciences approach to studying how managers and leaders learn and develop their practice. Recent projects include Implications of...

- Dr Noreen Cushen-Brewster

Noreen is an experienced clinician, having specialised in oncology, with a strong scientific and research background. She has worked in several senior nursing roles within health and social care across the UK, Australia and Ireland. She is passionate about putting the pati...