ARIES is a large consortium of many different partners, and the management of ARIES is transparent, responsive, equitable and experienced. We place heavy emphasis on integration and empowerment of collaborative partners, postgraduate research students, and academic colleagues throughout our organisation.

The operational purpose and membership of our Boards is described below.

Advisory Board (AB)

The overall direction of the DTP is guided by an Advisory Board drawn from our research user community. It promotes links between academic, policy, and collaborative partner communities within and beyond ARIES. It advises on maximising impact from ARIES research on society, industry, policy, and the wider scientific arena; and how best to realise the career aspirations of ARIES PGRs.

	Dr Lucinda Gilfoyle, Anglian Water – Catchment & Coastal Strategy Manager Chair of the Advisory Board Lu manages the AW Catchment Management Strategy which is about preventing pollution from getting into our raw waters in the first place, rather than relying upon ‘end of pipe’ treatment solutions to remove it once it is there. This approach requires working in partnership with a large number of both internal and external stakeholders. Her team comprises of coastal, biodiversity and agricultural experts who work closely alongside operational teams to deliver water quality outputs for both marine waters and, sources used for abstraction. Lu’s background is in Operations and she has held a number of managerial positions across our Water, Operational Management Centre and Water Recycling departments. She is also trained in both a Gold and Silver Command.  She has a degree in Environmental Toxicology and a PhD in Water Treatment and is a Chartered Environmentalist. Lu was awarded Chartered Environmentalist of the year by the Society for the Environment in 2015 and is a fellow of the Institute of Water. She is also the Chair of the Institute of Water Eastern Area.
	Professor Iain Stewart, Director of the Sustainable Earth Institute, Plymouth University Iain Stewart is Jordan-UK El Hassan bin Talal Research Chair in Sustainability at the Royal Scientific Society in Jordan. His research expertise is in geohazards and recent geological change, alongside interests in promoting geoscience to the public. Much of Iain’s geocommunication activities stem from his 15 year partnership with BBC Science, making television documentaries on the nature, history and state of the planet. As well as receiving an MBE for services to UK geoscience in the 2013 Birthday Honours list, he has received awards for geoscience communication from numerous international geoscientific bodies. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Iain is also President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and of the Devon Wildlife Trust. Much of Iain’s work involves international capacity-building around geo-environmental science communication, and in 2018 his Plymouth post was recognised as a UNESCO Chair of Geoscience and Society.
	Dr Tim Hill, Chief Scientist, Natural England Tim is a member of Natural England’s Senior Executive who, alongside his wider organisational leadership role, has specific responsibility for the use and quality of science & evidence in Natural England. Tim has worked for Natural England, its predecessor English Nature and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee for over 20 years in various leadership, management and specialist roles including: marine ecology; marine and terrestrial nature conservation; protected areas designation, management and regulation; wildlife management; access; and team and project management Tim has a PhD in Marine Ecology (University of Liverpool) and a joint honours degree in Marine Biology and Zoology (University College North Wales). Tim has been a member of Natural England’s Senior Executive since December 2014, with former senior leadership roles including Director Regulatory Services and Access and Director of Evidence. Tim has been Natural England’s Chief Scientist since 2011.
	Dr Stuart Rogers, Chief Scientist Cefas Stuart is an experienced marine scientist with a strong track record of building Cefas’ reputation and customer base. He has had a lot of operational experience through direct management and accounting responsibility as Director of Environment and Ecosystem science teams, and has published widely in the peer-reviewed literature.  He is also actively involved in delivering science and evidence to government as a senior adviser to Defra Marine and Fisheries, and providing support for UK government in Europe.  Through the Cefas Management Board he now has corporate responsibility for strategy and science planning, implements the Cefas Science and Evidence Strategy, and delivers our Ministerial Indicators for science output and self-investment.  He is responsible for the strategic direction of Cefas science and is accountable for the quality of evidence and advice to our customers.
	Professor Christine Maggs, Chief Scientist Joint Nature Conservation Committee Prof Christine Maggs graduated with a Botany degree from St Catherine’s College, Oxford in 1978 and a PhD from National University of Ireland, Galway in 1983. Formerly Executive Dean of the Faculty of Science & Technology at Bournemouth University, she is now the Chief Scientist and Deputy Chief Executive of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. Her main research interests are molecular systematics of seaweeds with particular interests in alien marine algae and plants, biological conservation, and sustainable seaweed exploitation. She has described two new orders and three new families of alga and has published over a hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers and written three books on seaweeds. Professor Maggs has been the Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Phycology for 16 years and is on the Editorial Board of Annales Botanici Fennici and Systematics and Biodiversity. She was appointed as Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2013 and is a member of the REF2021 subpanel UoA 7 Earth and Environment. In addition, in 2017, Professor Maggs was awarded the British Ecological Society Equality and Diversity Champion award for her contributions to enhancing the practice of equality and diversity in the ecological community.

Strategy Board (SB)

The Strategy Board is responsible for the overall running of the DTP, and for all aspects of policy and strategy development; under the advice of the Advisory Board. It is responsible for the assessment of project proposals; allocation of studentships; monitoring DTP and overall training progress against success criteria set by NERC and the Advisory Board, and reporting to NERC.

Members of the Strategy Board

	Prof Jenni Barclay ARIES Director and Chair of the ARIES Strategy Board Professor of Volcanology, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia Contact
Prof David Bilton ARIES Deputy Director Professor of Aquatic Biology School of Biological and Marine Sciences , University of Plymouth Contact
	Prof Greg Price ARIES Deputy Director Professor of Earth Sciences School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences
Prof Alex Dickson Head of Impact Lecturer in Geochemistry, Department of Earth Sciences Royal Holloway University of London Contact
	Prof Parvadha Suntharalingam Head of Training, Chair of Training and Progression Panel Professor of Environmental Sciences School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Dr Corinne Whitby Head of Equality and Diversity, Senior Lecturer School of Biological Sciences, University of Essex
	Prof Jim Groombridge Head of Multidisciplinarity, Professor of Biodiversity Conservation School of Anthropology & Conservation, University of Kent
Dr Ruth Airs Head of Wellbeing/non-HEI hosting partner representative Senior Analytical Biogeochemist and Head of Postgraduate studies Plymouth Marine Laboratory
	Ms Melanie Steele Head of Quality and Information Postgraduate Research Service, University of East Anglia
Dr Annie Winson Hosting Partner Representative Hazard and Vulnerability Specialist British Geological Survey
	Prof David Richardson Hosting Partner Representative Hazard and Vulnerability Specialist School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia
Dr John Ewen Hosting Partner Representative Research Fellow Institute of Zoology-Zoological Society of London
	Dr Rob Robinson Hosting Partner Representative Associate Director, Research British Trust for Ornithology
Dr Nick Isaac Hosting Partner Representative Macroecologist Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
	Dr Kelsey Byers Hosting Partner Representative, Group Leader, Building Robustness in Crops (BRiC), Harnessing Biosynthesis for Sustainable Food and Health (HBio) John Innes Centre
Prof Geraint Tarling Hosting Partner Representative Science Leader British Antarctic Survey
	Dr Jose De Vega Hosting partner representative Group Leader, Agricultural Biodiversity and Genomics Earlham Institute
Dr Michael Cunliffe Hosting Partner Representative Lecturer, School of Biological and Marine Sciences, University of Plymouth Research Fellow, Marine Biological Association
	Dr Eoin O’Gorman Hosting partner representative Lecturer, School of Life Sciences University of Essex
Dr Rob Holland Collaborative Partner Representative Development & Assurance Lead (Techniques) Oil Spill Response Ltd
	Dr Stephen Dye Collaborative Partner Representative, Physical Oceanographer, Cefas Honorary Lecturer, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Dr Jo-Anne Pitt Collaborative Partner Representative Senior Specialist: Research Analysis and Evaluation: Air, Land and Water Research Team Environment Agency
	Dr Clare Le Brecht Collaborative Partner Representative Senior Associate – Environment and Sustainability Mott MacDonald
Dr Robert Hawkes Collaborative Partner Representative Conservation Scientist Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
	Dr Alice Brewer ARIES Operational Manager Doctoral Training Partnerships Officer Postgraduate Research Service, University of East Anglia

The ARIES Sceretariat

The ARIES Secretariat is embedded in the UEA PGR Office at UEA and is the first point of contact for staff, PGRs, collaborative partners, and external enquirers and be contacted by emailing the DTP.

	Dr Alice Brewer ARIES Operational Manager Doctoral Training Partnerships Officer Postgraduate Research Service, University of East Anglia