Matthew Hosken

Currently supporting two multimillion-pound projects: LifeArc Centre for Acceleration of Rare Disease Trials and NIHR HealthTech Research Centre for Diagnostic and Technology Evaluation.

• Established and embedded governance frameworks by setting up external advisory boards, organisational breakdown structures, and centre-wide strategy documents, ensuring transparent decision-making and clear accountability across multi-institutional research programmes.
• Coordinated business case development for industry–academic collaborations, leading the triage process for companies seeking to co-apply for grants. This included advising on suitable funding streams and structuring applications to align with funder expectations. To date, this has supported 16 grant submissions (value >£10M), with £4M in total project value successfully secured.
• Supported procurement of a external vendor for a digital research platform, including gathering stakeholder feedback, defining minimum viable product requirements, managing invitation-to-tender process, supporting commercial negotiations, and advising on IP structuring.
• Assisted in multi-year project financial planning, advising on staff and non-staff costings, ensuring compliance with budget limits, and implementing reporting structures and project controls that facilitated smooth reporting periods and received positive sponsor feedback
• Assisted in developing Patient and Public Inclusion and Engagement (PPIE) strategy, facilitating positive social impact across projects in line with governmental guidelines.
• Led stakeholder analysis and communications strategy to strengthen internal and external relationships, align project outputs with sponsor and Ministerial requirements, and resolve complex logistical challenges across multi-team projects.

• Supervised daily operations, coordinated administrative support and managed staff to deliver key operational duties within university staff.
• Collaborated with wider teams and generated strategies to provide proactive, responsive project support for yearly events.
• Streamlined existing processes to improve and optimise office operations, focusing on improving data driven processes to improve employee work quality and speed.

• Devised and implemented improvements to reporting procedures ensuring compliance with governmental organizations
• Moulded customer interaction around services, taking on customer feedback to improve accessibility of application systems and improve user experience by developing data from multiple sources into accessible presentations.
• Assisted team in resolving staffing issues, offering quick and effective support to maintain service efficiency.

• Authored a series of campaign opinion pieces that sparked public debate on important political issues
• Organized fundraising events, increasing campaign awareness and garnering contributions
• Accounted for campaign budgeting discussions and management of funds.

• Collected and organized research data, wrote proposals and responses on behalf of the MP for constituent correspondence
• Developed issue-based presentations and delivered opinion briefs for use in parliamentary debates.