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Research Services
Nancy Hayter
Assistant Vice-President, Research Services
Email: nancy.hayter@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 3859
Areas of responsibility:
• oversees ORS research processes and policies
• signs off on research funding applications and awards following review by ORS staff
• involved in major institutional applications
• liaises with Dal central units, hospital research offices and funding agencies
• undertakes institutional reporting.
Trevor Weissent
Director, Finance and Operations
Email: trevor.weissent@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 1743
Areas of responsibility:
• advises on and oversees major institutional awards on behalf of the Vice-President Research and Innovation (VPRI)
• advises on and oversees operating and discretionary fund accounts under VPRI control, including business planning, funding proposals, financial reporting, and process development
• oversees daily operation and administration of the Office of Research Services.
Elaine Lee-Adams
Receptionist and Administrative Assistant
Email: elaine.lee-adams@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 1848
Areas of responsibility:
• provides reception support for the Office of Research Services
• maintains ORS boardroom schedule
• provides administrative support to ORS units.
Contracts/Legal
Esther Akinkugbe
Legal Advisor
Email: esther.akinkugbe@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 3431
Areas of responsibility:
• reviews legal agreements for ORS units (except ILI) related to research at Dalhousie including grants, contracts, transfer agreements, inter-institutional agreements, service agreements, sub-site agreements, clinical trials and other research matters
• provides legal advice on research-related issues through liaison with the Legal Counsel Office and provides advice on policies related to research.
Sara Leslie
Contracts Support Specialist &
ORS Administrative Assistant
Email: ORSLegal@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 4564
Areas of responsibility:
• provides specialized administrative support to ORS Legal
• serves as initial contact for ORS Legal and liaises with researchers and other departments on requests and queries
• provides administrative support to ORS units.
Ethics (Human)
Catherine Connors
Director, Research Ethics
Email: catherine.connors@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 1462
Areas of responsibility:
• oversees University’s Research Ethics Boards, Research Ethics unit and manages ethics review and oversight process for research involving humans
• develops policy, procedures and educational resources
• provides ethical guidance to researchers, responds to research participant concerns and serves as principal liaison on ethics issues with external stakeholders.
Angela Hersey
Manager, Research Ethics
Email: Angela.Hersey@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 1895
Areas of responsibility:
• advises researchers on project-related ethical issues
• prepares review letters.
Cali Goud
Ethics Support Specialist &
ORS Administrative Assistant
Email: cali.goud@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 3423
Areas of responsibility:
• serves as initial contact for inquiries and coordinates Board meetings
• facilitates the research ethics review process for initial submissions, re-submissions, amendment requests, continuing and final reports, and release of funds requests
• communicates REB decisions to researchers.
Grants and Contracts
David Spurrell
Manager, Grants and Contracts
Faculties of Science, Engineering, Computer Science, Architecture and Planning
Email: david.spurrell@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 1160
Areas of responsibility:
• manages Grants and Contracts Unit
• facilitates grant applications to the Tri-Agency and other Canadian funding agencies
• organizes outreach sessions and manages Dalhousie’s NSERC internal funding programs.
Christine Whitehouse (on leave)
Research Grants Facilitator
Email: christine.whitehouse@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 2872
Areas of responsibility:
• facilitates grant applications to the Tri-Agency and other Canadian funding agencies
• organizes outreach sessions and educational resources
• manages Dalhousie’s SSHRC internal funding programs.
Susan Haydt
Research Grants Facilitator
Faculties of Dentistry, Health, Medicine (and Biomedical Engineering), Arts and Social Sciences, Law, Management
Email: susan.haydt@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 1333
Areas of responsibility:
• facilitates grants applications to the Tri-Agency and other Canadian funding agencies
• organizes outreach sessions and educational resources.
Caroline Sequeira
Research Grants Officer, Post-award
Faculties of Agriculture, Architecture and Planning, Arts and Social Sciences, Computer Science, Engineering, Law, Management and Science
Email: caroline.sequeira@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 2247
Areas of responsibility:
• authorizes the opening of research accounts
• facilitates the transfer of funds between institutions
• ensures compliance with university and agency policies and procedures.
Annie Laroche
Research Grants Officer, Post-award
Faculties of Dentistry, Health and Medicine
Email: annie.laroche@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 1039
Areas of responsibility:
• authorizes the opening of research accounts
• facilitates the transfer of funds between institutions
• ensures compliance with university and agency policies and procedures.
Amanda Leslie
Research Administrator (temporary)
Email: Amanda.Leslie@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 4343
Areas of responsibility:
• supports the processing of grant applications and associated documentation
• updates and maintains grant application statistics and reports
• facilitates outreach sessions and events.
Cheryl Paris
Research Officer & Animal Care Coordinator
(Agricultural Campus)
Email: cheryl.paris@dal.ca Phone: 902 893 2635
Areas of responsibility:
• provides post-award support for the Faculty of Agriculture (grants and contracts)
• coordinates Animal Ethics for Agricultural campus.
Sara Murphy
Research and Development Coordinator
(Agricultural Campus)
Email: sara.murphy@dal.ca Phone: 902 893 6028
Areas of responsibility:
• facilitates grant applications from the Faculty of Agriculture
• advises on funding programs and university processes and policies
• organizes outreach events on the Agricultural campus.
Information Management
Jaq-Lin Larder
IM Database Administrator
Email: jaq-lin.larder@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 3853
Areas of responsibility:
• manages ROMEO research database and Researcher Portal
• prepares periodic and ad-hoc research funding reports
• oversees quality assurance program for ROMEO database.
Khyati Raval
Data Technician
Email: khyati.raval@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 1376
Areas of responsibility:
• provides support to Research Portal users
• compiles quality assurance reports
• inputs research data into ROMEO database.
Institutional Programs and International Research & Development (CFI, CRC, CERC, NCE, Genome etc.)
Shelley Brown
Manager, Institutional and International Programs
Email: shelley.brown@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 8885
Areas of responsibility:
• manages CRC, CFI, NFRF and other major institutional funding programs
• advises on funding agency and University policies and procedures
• coordinates teams for large-scale institutional applications and liaises with external consultant.
Danielle Andres
Facilitator, Institutional Programs
Email: danielle.andres@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 3036
Areas of responsibility:
• facilitates and reviews applications to Genome Canada, CFI JELF and RNS
• manages reporting to CFI and RNS.
Erin Murphy
Facilitator, Institutional and International Programs
Email: Erin.Murphy@dal.ca
Areas of responsibility:
• Facilitates and reviews applications to international funding opportunities, including NIH, Horizon Europe, and funding opportunities to support international collaboration, including IRDC, GAC and DFATD
• Supports institutional applications to CRC, CFI and NFRF (Transformation and International)
• Organises outreach sessions and educational resources
Chris Wirz
Financial Administrator
Email: chris.wirz@dal.ca Phone: 902-494-1742
Areas of responsibility:
• assists with the development of proposal budgets (international and institutional)
• provides financial oversight on Dalhousie international project accounts
• provides financial administrative support for various OVPRI/ORS accounts.
Cynthia Sawler
Research Administrator
Email: cynthia.sawler@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 3273
Areas of responsibility:
• facilitates CFI post-award, including Infrastructure Operating Fund (IOF)
• coordinates large-scale institutional competitions.
Amanda Leslie
Research Administrator (temporary)
Email: Amanda.Leslie@dal.ca Phone: 902 494 4343
Areas of responsibility:
• supports processing of International applications and documentation