Overview

Project manager for the Molecular Mechanics Initiative, funded by the UKRI Strategic Projects Fund, Physics of Life, supporting PIs Professor Frank Vollmer and Professor Jennifer Littlechild on that project and Professor Vollmer’s wider portfolio of awards.

Responsible for monitoring progress, finance, meetings and events, reporting to UKRI. Moving towards the final year of the project 2021/22 working with the team on impact and user engagement, potential commercialisation, case studies.

Gillian's early background was in design and construction, educated at Birmingham School of Architecture, working as a consultant in information management, technical and product research, with interior designers, architects and product designers; specialising in furniture, colour systems and technical standards.  

From 2011 to 2018 Gillian worked for the University of Bristol, initially managing the Centre for English Language and Foundation Studies and from 2012 she was School Manager of the School of Arts. For the eight years before that she was Director of the Architecture Centre in Bristol.