Lucy Williams

Biography 

Lucy Williams is the Senior Project Manager on the Prosper Project in the Academy at the University of Liverpool. Lucy has a degree in Chemistry and prior to joining the University of Liverpool worked at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for twenty years. Lucy’s roles there included Head of Physics Programme, where she led a team of 4 responsible for developing and managing a national portfolio of Physics research and postgraduate training in Universities with a budget of £35M p.a. She then moved to take up the role of Head of Marketing and Communications where she developed the strategy for EPSRCs corporate communications and stakeholder relations and managed the team of 16 responsible for delivering them. Her final role at EPSRC was Head of the Developing Leaders Team where she was responsible for delivering and developing EPSRC strategy for supporting researchers in the external academic community - from PhD through to world leading researchers.  Lucy joined the University of Liverpool just over 3 years ago as a Strategic Project Manager in the Research, Partnerships and Innovation Directorate where she was responsible for co-ordinating large strategic research funding and fellowship bids including the initial bid for the Prosper project.  Lucy has also worked part time for the last 14 years, part of the time in a job share, to allow her to juggle family and working life!