Principal's Office support staff
Dr Bethan Williams
Executive Officer to the Principal
Bethan Williams is Executive Officer to the Principal. She works closely with the Principal on a day-to-day basis and also with respect to arrangements for the Booker Prize Project, the annual Awards Dinner and high-profile visits. Bethan assists the Principal with preparation for speaking engagements by undertaking research and producing briefing notes. Her role involves liaising with colleagues in the Development Office, and other units, on behalf of the Principal, and she is also secretary of the Senate Business Committee. Her position has recently developed to include managing the administration of arrangements for honorary graduands, and other graduation-related tasks.
Before joining the Principal’s Office in 2009, Bethan worked for the Master of St Catherine’s College, Oxford. She is a graduate of the University of St Andrews, and has a doctorate in mediaeval English.
Tel: 01334 462029
Fax: 01334 462543
baw@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Fiona Thompson
Executive Officer to the Principal's Office
Fiona Thompson is the Executive Officer to the Principal’s Office. Fiona works with all the members of the Principal’s Office on a variety of strategic projects and on the development and execution of new policies. She also works with Schools and Units to facilitate the flow of management information to inform the members of the PO. Fiona staffs the Principal’s Office meetings and monitors the matters arising. In addition she attends the Heads of Schools’ meetings, PARC and SDG to help co-ordinate actions and communication issues between all these groups and the PO.
Fiona is the main contact for staff and building issues within College Gate and is line-manager to the Reception Staff within the building. She manages the support for the members of the PO to help ensure that the Principal’s Office operates as effectively as possible as an integrated team and oversees the budget for the PO.
Fiona is also responsible for the administration for the Principal's medal, and has recently taken on the co-ordination of the Graduation ceremonies.
Fiona worked in the Planning Office in the University of Bristol for two years following 20 years as a Research Scientist in both Bristol and Glasgow; she has a PhD in molecular virology.
Tel: 01334 467212
Fax: 01334 462543
fjt71@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Jackie Balfour
Executive Personal Assistant to the Principal
Tel: 01334 462544
Fax: 01334 462543
jb12@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Sheona Ogilvie
Secretary to the Principal
Tel: 01334 462544
Fax: 01334 462543
Sheona.Ogilvie@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Lyn Murphy
Administrative Assistant to the Principal's Office
Tel: 01334 462551
Fax: 01334 462543
mm112@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Mary Ingram
Personal Assistant to the Deputy Principal and Vice-Principal (Research) and to Professor Peter Clark
Tel: 01334 462542
Fax: 01334 462543
mi17@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Barbara Porter
Personal Assistant to the Quaestor and Factor
Tel: 01334 462016
Fax: 01334 462106
bp7@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Lisa A. Parker
Personal Assistant to the Master of the United College
Tel: 01334 462552
Fax: 01334 462543
lap21@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Lorna McLaren
Personal Assistant to the Vice-Principal (External Relations) and to the Academic Registrar
Tel: 01334 463321
Fax: 01334 463388
lm72@st-andrews.ac.uk
Dr Birgit Weinman
Personal Assistant to the Vice-Principal (Governance and Planning) and to the Chief Information Officer
Tel: 01334 462555
Fax: 01334 462543
bew1@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Vanessa Hughes
Personal Assistant to the Vice-Principal (Proctor)
Tel: 01334 462583
Fax: 01334 462554
vls@st-andrews.ac.uk
Ms Lesley Stephen
Personal Assistant to the Finance Director and to the Chief Legal Officer
Tel: 01334 462553
Fax: 01334 462106
ls38@st-andrews.ac.uk
College Gate Reception
Mrs Angela Struthers
Receptionist (08:00-13:00)
Tel: 01334 462525
Fax: 01334 467432
cgrecep@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Michele Behan
Receptionst (12:30-17:30)
Tel: 01334 462525
Fax: 01334 467432
cgrecep@st-andrews.ac.uk
Planning Office
Mrs Lorna Sillar
Senior Planning Officer
Lorna Sillar has been responsible since 2008 for facilitating the annual strategic planning process in academic schools and administrative units. Lorna is also responsible for monitoring and reporting the University’s performance against institutional key performance indicators.
A zoology graduate of the University of Glasgow specialising in molecular developmental biology, she was employed as a Research Manager in Teratology, Glaxo Group Research Ltd (GSK) in Hertfordshire from 1981-1984. Lorna pursued postgraduate neurochemistry research in the University of Bath’s Biology and Biochemistry Department, latterly supported by a Wellcome Trust Research Assistantship 1985-1989. Lorna subsequently worked for the Longman Group (part of Pearson PLC) as Sales and Marketing Manager in the Commercial Electronic Publishing Division, from 1989 to 1994.
From 1994-1998, Lorna was Director of the Centre for Sponsored Programmes, the University’s office responsible for the administration of research grants and contracts and also technology transfer including the formation of spin-out companies. She became the Director of St Andrews Research and Enterprise Services (RES) (Medical, Life and Environmental Sciences) in the Technology Transfer Office from 1998-2008.
Tel: 01334 462387
Fax: 01334 46254
lorna.sillar@st-andrews.ac.uk
Research Policy Office
Dr Helen Reddy
Senior Research Policy Officer
Dr Helen Reddy was appointed as Senior Research Policy Officer at the University of St Andrews in 2004. She is responsible for co-ordinating and managing activities in order to achieve the research objectives of the University, working with the Deputy Principal and Vice Principal for Research.
Helen graduated with a PhD in Cardiovascular Research from the University of Edinburgh in 1989. After three years working as a Clinical Biochemist in the NHS she spent two years carrying out post-doctoral research in a pharmaceutical company in Palo Alto, USA. On returning to the UK she worked on cell signalling with Professor Sir Philip Cohen at the University of Dundee before moving into research administration.
She has a long-standing interest in the management of research information and was the lead on the introduction of the new Research Information System (PURE) into the University in 2010. Helen is co-ordinating and planning our institutional submission to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) and represents the University on a variety of national groups related to REF and research information management.
Tel: 01334 462429
Fax: 01334 462543
hr2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Ms Jennifer White
Research Information Systems Administrator
Tel: 01334 467220
Fax: 01334 462543
jaw14@st-andrews.ac.uk
Mrs Laura Bates
Research Policy Officer
Tel: 01334 464141
Fax: 01334 462543
lb587@st-andrews.ac.uk
Home Office Liaison Office
Home Office Liaison Officer
Tel: 01334 462527