Biography
Roles & responsibilities: To deliver the scientific aims of the Centre through day-to-day management, with a focus on growth and development, training, promotion and providing support to the Centre members.
Beverly has worked for the University of Edinburgh since 2004, first as a postdoctoral research fellow in cognitive epidemiology and then as a Scientific Administrator/Centre Manager for a range of research Centres. She joined the UK DRI as Edinburgh’s Centre Manager in December 2017.
Beverly completed an MA (Hons) Psychology (1996-2000) at the University of Edinburgh. She later moved to London to complete a PhD at UCL looking at the impact of retirement on later life cognition in the British Whitehall II cohort (2007). In her current position as Centre Manager, Beverly’s overall responsibility is to oversee the day-to-day running of the Centre. This is a varied role which involves assisting around 150 Centre members in recruitment/contracts, grant availability, education/training, implementation of new research strategies and procedures, co-ordinating research projects, and events/conference management. She also monitors the Centre’s financial budgets. Finally, Beverly supports the Centre Director as his EA.