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Sarah Chaytor

Director of Strategy and Policy, UCL Research, Innovation & Global Engagement, UCL

Director of Strategy and Policy, UCL Research, Innovation & Global Engagement, UCL Sarah Chaytor is Director of Strategy & Policy for UCL Research, Innovation & Global Engagement. She was a co-founder and is currently co-Chair of UPEN, the Universities Policy Engagement Network; leads the £10 million Capabilities in Academic-Policy Engagement project; and is Co-Principal Investigator and Strategic Engagement Director for the International Public Policy Observatory. She is also a Co-Director of the Research on Research Institute. Sarah established and oversees UCL’s flagship academic-policy engagement initiative, UCL Public Policy, to connect UCL research to public policymaking. She works closely with the Vice-Provost (Research, Innovation and Global Engagement) on the strategic management of UCL’s research and innovation agenda and the coordination of activities across the portfolio. She has a particular focus on external stakeholder engagement and research policy, as well as institutional strategic initiatives.