Catherine Lyall

She is Emerita Professor of Science and Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh.  She is an experienced science policy researcher and evaluator of knowledge exchange and interdisciplinary research activities who has acted as a consultant to public research funding organisations across the UK and Europe.  She has brought this experience to bear in her previous publications, including Being an Interdisciplinary Academic.  How Institutions Shape University Careers (Palgrave Pivot, 2019); Interdisciplinary Research Journeys (with Ann Bruce, Joyce Tait and Laura Meagher, Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) and, most recently, Foundations in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research: A Reader (with Bianca Vienni Baptista and Isabel Fletcher, Bristol University Press, 2023).  She is currently delivering a programme of training for interdisciplinary research evaluators as part of the UKRI Cross Research Council Responsive Mode pilot scheme.