TAMMY-LOUISE DUFTY

University of Birmingham — Aug 2023 – Present

• Provide strategic and operational support for research funding applications across EPS and LES faculties, with a focus on pre-award processes including due diligence, export control, and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) compliance.
• Advise academic staff on funder requirements, impact planning, and proposal development for schemes including UKRI, Horizon Europe, and major charities.
• Deliver workshops and one-to-one support on funding strategy, bid writing, and research planning.
• Collaborate with internal teams (finance, legal, ethics) and external partners to facilitate interdisciplinary and international research projects.
• Contribute to institutional research strategy through data analysis, reporting, and policy input.

Key Skills

• Research funding strategy and development
• Pre-award support and compliance (due diligence, RRI, export control)
• Stakeholder engagement and collaboration
• Proposal writing and review
• Training and capacity building
• Strategic planning and reporting
• Interdisciplinary and international research support

Tools & Systems

• Worktribe – research management and costing
• Je-S / UKRI Funding Service – application submission, also other funder portals incl, Royal Society, CRUK and Leverhulme
• MS Excel, Power BI, SharePoint – data analysis and reporting
• MS Teams, Zoom, Outlook – communication and coordination

Would you like help tailoring this for a specific job or sector (e.g., moving into strategy, policy, or a different university)?

• Collaborated with academics and research facilitators to ensure accurate funding applications.
• Reviewed submitted applications for compliance with costings and guidelines.
• Conducted due diligence and export control assessments on external companies when required.
• Confirmed submission eligibility for academics or coordinated submission through relevant portals.
• Reported pending Research Awards in Worktribe for college board oversight.
• Distributed funding opportunities to college mailing lists as needed.
• Oversaw Grant Setup process, ensuring timely processing of awarded applications.
• Provided training for team members on new procedures to enhance operational efficiency.

• Initially this role was to look after the projects of Dr A Beggs in ICGS research and non-research projects, looking into the finances and staffing and clearing up any issues.
• Taking over the monitoring of CRUK and ECMC Centres.
• In January 2020 I was asked to help with Global Surgery Unit (GSU) 50% shared between the 2 roles.
• In April 2020 I was taken onto GSU full time, inheriting the website (external) and the newsletter through Mailchimp.
• I also had to raise Requisitions and monitor all the expenditure.
• There have been a few trials that have run through the Unit which I was tasked with confirming the finances.
• I also have to pull all the reporting together for QSTOX to NIHR.

• College of Social Sciences, College Research Support Office, Helping academics who are applying for funding to price their application with the correct prices and making sure that all relevant funding guidance has been adhered to.
• Arranging meetings with academic colleagues to discuss any requirements, also communicating through email and telephone conversations when required.

• Finance Office/Research Finance, Costing and Pricing of Research Projects to a variety of funders PRE and POST award, moving to PRE Award in Feb 2017.
• Project Administration for the finance and staffing on the project from the start to end.
• This was completed with numerous schools and colleges within the University.
• Responsibilities: Management and training of new starters in the role, completing Professional Development Review assessment criteria with the new starter to enable them to succeed in the role.
• Responsibility of signing and approving of Multi Million Pound research projects before they are submitted to the funder.
• Costing and pricing of research projects, completing the submission process to the funder’s specifications.
• Ensuring that all the information is correct and that no errors are made.
• Creating a Research Project on the in-house system, and ensuring that all the staffing requirements are met and there are no VISA or budgetary issues with HR.
• Key Achievements: Whilst in the role I was part of a group that changed a process, the staffing sign off process was very long and involved a lot of signatures and paperwork, this was dramatically reduced as part of the change enabling time saving and a reduction in paperwork.

• Processing of individual expenses of the sales representatives within the company, progressing to processing the payroll inputs for the sales representatives with their timesheets submitted.

• A general administrator that invoiced companies or private individuals when a Parking Barrier or Post had been installed.
• SAGE Line 50, receptionist duties and was the main point of contact within the office.