Research Services
Research Services monitors, promotes, administers and reports Victoria University's research activities.
We support and enables the University’s research activity through a range of operational and strategic services delivered to University researchers and management.
About Research Services
We provide support to VU researchers in the areas of:
- external and internal research funding coordination, administration and review assistance
- negotiation support and administration of research contracts
- patenting and licensing support
- animal ethics and biosafety
- human research ethics and integrity
- data collection and reporting of research performance.
Research funding & contracts
Areas of expertise and service in this area include:
- Research funding (external and internal funding) | Email:
- Research agreements (financial and non-financial agreements) | Email:
- Patenting and licensing support.
Research funding & contracts team
- Senior Manager, Research Funding: Fiona Smith
- Senior Research Contracts Lawyer: Gina Georgiou
- Senior Research Officer Funding: Terence Pang
- Research Contracts Advisor
- Research Officer Funding: Li He and Jennifer Huynh
- Funding & Contract Administration Officer
Research Strategy, Policy & Infrastructure
Areas of service and support include:
- Support for the development and implementation of University level research strategy and policy
- Provision of research performance data management and reporting services
- Biosafety services
- Research infrastructure, including animal facilities | Email:
- Animal welfare services
- MORA- measuring individual research activity| Email:
Research Strategy, Policy & Infrastructure team
- Associate Director, Research Strategy, Policy and Infrastructure: Bree Nicholas
- Senior Manager, Research Infrastructure & Biosafety: Penelope Steer-Cope
- Animal Welfare Officer: Dr Steve Holloway
- Manager, Research Performance & Reporting: Alex Skevofylakas
- Research Performance Information Analyst: Anastasios (Tassos) Eleftheriadis
- Manager, Animal Facility: Anne Luxford
- Research Infrastructure & Biosafety Officer: Kelly Wilson
- Biosciences Research Support Officer: Valentina Jovanovska
Research governance
Areas of service and support include:
- Human research ethics | Email:
- Research Integrity | Email:
- Animal ethics | Email:
- Biosafety | Email:
Research Governance Team
- Chair Human Ethics: Deborah Zion
- Senior Manager Ethics & Integrity: Elizabeth Hill
- Senior Officer Human Research Ethics: Megan Garratt
- Senior Officer Animal Ethics & Biosafety
Supporting the VU researcher
The following areas include further information about how we support the VU researcher:
General enquiries
For more information about research funding opportunities, ethics applications, research development or collaborative research and commercialisation, contact our general enquiries service: