Meet the team

  • Professor Richard Kingston

    Professor Richard Kingston

    Director

     

  • Sarah Barton

    Sarah Barton

    Strategy and Operations Manager

    Sarah’s role is to support the Associate Vice President for Digital and Innovation in developing and delivering Digital Futures platform strategy, and to lead the Research Platforms Team.

  • Kitty Lo

    Kitty Lo

    Communications and Engagement Coordinator

    Kitty manages communications and engagement activities for the Centre for Digital Trust and Society and the cybersecurity research community. 

  • Izzy Hall

    Izzy Hall

    Communications and Engagement Coordinator

    Izzy supports the Data Science and AI research community, and manages engagement around the interface of creative and technology research.

  • Yingru Chen

    Yingru Chen

    Events, Projects and Communications Support Intern

    Provides events, projects and communications support to the Research Platform teams, maintaining and developing communication, events and administration activities.

  • Madhav Banati

    Madhav Banati

    Events, Projects and Communications Support Intern

    Provides events, projects and communications support to the Research Platform teams, maintaining and developing communication, events and administration activities.

  • Stuart Coulson

    Stuart Coulson

    Cyber Ecosystem Project Manager (DiSH)

    Stuart supports the DiSH project to bring together experts in digital and cyber security from the public, private and academic sectors to help Greater Manchester’s digital security startups to innovate and grow.

  • Phil Wallace

    Phil Wallace

    Cyber Ecosystem Project Manager 

    Phil is responsible for managing a portfolio of events, relationships and research projects related to digital trust and security across Greater Manchester.