Liz joined AMRC  in 2007. She is head of research.

Her role is to support member charities in their grant-giving activities, from providing advice on developing a research strategy to evaluating the impact of research portfolios. In 2010-11 she chaired the AMRC IP working group and managed the audit of members' peer review practices. Liz is a member of the REF 2014 subpanel for clinical medicine.

Liz oversees the professional development programme: working with experts from within AMRC, the wider membership, and outside organisations to provide workshops in the areas of AMRC’s activities. 

Liz also manages the five-yearly audit of members’ peer review practices, which ensures that all members are operating according to AMRC’s principles of peer review. The other aspect of her role is in managing the AMRC grants database and providing sector-wide analyses of figures and trends in medical research grant-giving.

Liz studied physiology at the University of Leeds University, and has a PhD in neuroscience from UCL. Liz's postgrad and postdoctoral studies examined the effect of neural transplantation in a rat model of Huntington’s disease.

In 1995, Liz moved into grant management and administration in the public and charity sector. Before joining AMRC she was R&D manager at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, where she worked closely with the academic and clinical trials units, and developed skills in intellectual property, contract negotiation, understanding the NHS and working across cultural and organisational divides.