Anna Vaishnav
Research Culture Development Manager
Anna’s role
The main aspects of Anna’s role on the Thrive team includes engaging with stakeholders across the university sector, AHRC, and UKRI more broadly, to understand the functionality of established processes through the lifecycle of a funding call and to determine the systems and structural changes required to support new models of team-based working.
Working with AHRC, Anna will develop and deliver a pilot funding call which supports exploration and trialling of models of team-based working. This will include capturing the experiences of research teams involved in preparing applications to the pilot call and sharing across the research sector an understanding of an emerging model of team-led research projects.
About Anna
Anna has over a decade’s experience designing, developing, delivering and managing research projects across a number of disciplines – spanning the academic, business and third sectors.
Anna previously led a project to design, deliver and embed a new co-developed, evidence-based and research-informed system of best practice in the Youth Justice System across Greater Manchester, working closely with a wide and varied group of stakeholders to embed institutional change and pioneering a right-based participatory action research approach in a youth justice setting.
Anna has experience of developing research proposals from within HEIs, including as an investigator on a number of UKRI-funded initiatives. She is currently also Research Development Manager for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool.
Anna recently lived for a number of years in India studying yogic and vedantic philosophy, before returning to Liverpool where I now live with my husband and two Indian street cats – Kali and Aja.
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