Shelley Lyon Email & Phone Number

• My primary responsibility is managing and coordinating research grants within the Department of Infectious Diseases, the University of Melbourne (at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity). My role also.
• Identifying and communicating funding opportunities and resources available via the University to assist researchers with their funding applications, providing advice and resources.
• Assisting with training of junior or new academic research staff and students.
• Coordinating the submission of large/complex collaborative research proposals to national and international funding opportunities (i.e. NHMRC, MRFF, NIH).
• Producing Doherty Institute research and publication reports for internal and external stakeholders.
• Working closely with University of Melbourne central, faculty and school divisions as well as the Doherty Institute to align strategic and operational processes.

Clayton, Victoria, Australia

As the Acting Senior Grants Officer (applications), my role was to oversee the management of all applications submitted for competitive health and medical research funding at Monash University. In this role I supervised one Grants Officer (GO) and nine Assistant Grants Officers (AGOs) and developed remote training program to enable working-from-home during.

Melbourne, Australia

• As a Grants Officer at Monash University, my role in one of Australia’s busiest and most successful central research offices was to provide support and advice to researchers applying for competitivenational and.
• Providing customer-focused administrative support to researchers in the process of Pre- and Post-award research administration
• Developing and implementing processes to ensure submission of compliant and eligible grants application to national and international funding bodies.
• Liaising with various internal and external stakeholders in relation to matters of pre- and post-award administration of research grants
• Recording grant application review and submission activity in the University’s research management information system (Pure) and other associated spreadsheets

Melbourne, Australia

• Gained over four years of experience teaching international and local undergraduate students in first, second and third year Microbiology practical laboratory and tutorial sessions while completing a PhD in.
• Responsible for preparing and conducting tutorial sessions to successfully engage students
• Extensive experience with correcting and grading student reports and literature reviews
• Mentored students in group research assignments
• Experience with using the Moodle Learning Management system to facilitate undergraduate teaching
• Tutoring professional development workshops using molecular biology based techniques

• Responsible for designing and conducting laboratory experiments
• Assisting with research projects
• Maintaining laboratory working environment and equipment
• Accurate record keeping and report preparation

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Medical Microbiology And Bacteriology

Activities and Societies: Vice president of Monash University Microbiology Postgraduate Society (2013) OH&S student representative.

Bachelor’S Degree, Microbiology, General, 3.75 Gpa, 81.8 Wam

• Obtained High academic achievement award (2008) • Received Medicine Nursing and Health Sciences - Domestic Honours Scholarship (2011) •.

High School

Activities and Societies: Debate team