Last updated: December 2012
Meet our Manchester team
Director - Colin Sibley, Professor of Child Health and Physiology
Professor Colin Sibley is the Director of our Maternal and Fetal Health Research Centre in Manchester. His research interests focus on problems related to the placenta, which can lead to pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia, fetal growth restriction, miscarriage and stillbirth. He is the current elected President of the International Federation of Placenta Associations.
Principal investigators
John D Aplin - Professor of Reproductive Biomedicine
Paul Brownbill - Research Fellow
Ian Crocker - Senior Lecturer
Leroy Edozien - Consultant Obstetrician and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Jo Glazier - Senior Research Fellow
Sue Greenwood - Research Fellow
Alex Heazell - Walport Clinical Lecturer
Edward Johnstone - Clinical Senior Lecturer
Dame Tina Lavender - Professor of Midwifery (appointed a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to midwifery)
Rebecca Lee Jones - Lecturer
Tracey Mills - Lecturer
Jenny Myers - Clinical Senior Lecturer
Colin Sibley - Professor of Child Health and Physiology
Clare Tower - Consultant Obstetrician and Honarary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Mark Wareing - Senior Scientist
Melissa Westwood - Reader
Melissa Whitworth - Consultant Obstetrician and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer
Philip Baker - Honorary Visiting Professor
Independent postdoctoral research fellows
Michelle Desforges
Karen Forbes
Lynda Harris
Postdoctoral research fellows/associates
Jayne Charnock
Mark Dilworth
Christina Hayward
Sarah Jones
Jo Stanley
Kate Widdows
Research midwives/practitioners
Alysha Allibone
Nicola Bamford
Kerry Barker
Giovanna Bernaviticus
Jane Boscolo-Ryan
Catherine Chmeil
Julie Dillon
Paula Doran (nee Evans)
Rachel Grimshaw
Christine Hughes
Claire McGuire
Lynsey Moorhead
Lynda Peacock
Natalie Patterson
Catherine Ricklesford
Cara Taylor
Helen Taylor
Suzanne Thomas - Research Midwife Co-ordinator
Technicians
Sally Mosley - Laboratory Manager
Helen Bischof
Liz Cowley
Ainsley Garrod
Kurt Mynett
Lewis Renshall
Research students
Alaa Alkhalefa
Khiria Alsaghir
Bo Baker
Stephane Berneau
Sarah Coleman
Natalie Cureton
Zoe Darwin
Hayley Derricott
Paula Diaz
Chloe Duval
Chris Fitzpatrick
Kim Hannam
Lucy Higgins
Chloe Hirst
Isaac Huen
Charlotte Hulme
Tolu Junaid
Anna King
Sammi Leane
Sylvia Liu
Siofra McDermott
Vicki Palin
Lewis Renshall
Peter Sipos
Steffi Swietlik
Deirdre Thajam
Caroline Wright
Administrative staff
Jean French