Programme Speakers
Sue Johnson
Sue joined the Research and Business Services Division at The University of East Anglia (UEA) as Consultancy Manager in 2005. Her background is in plant molecular biology and she worked at the John Innes Centre for twenty years. Having moved to UEA in 2001 she received a staff bursary and completed a part-time MBA which led to her move to the Technology Transfer and Commercialisation Group
.Since becoming Consultancy Manager she has seen the business grow considerably from 38 contracts with a value of £341K in 04/05 to 100 contracts with a value of £950K in the first 3 quarters of 07/08. She was also responsible for setting up a consultancy expertise register which covers the whole Norwich Research Park which includes the John Innes Centre and Institute of Food Research.
UEA was recently awarded a grant from HEFCE’s Shared Services Initiative and Sue is looking at rolling out UEA’s consultancy model to other HEIs. She is particularly interested in the notion of ‘collaborating to compete’ and the joining up of HEIs into a large register of expertise thus enabling capacity building to allow collaboration on consultancy projects.
