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Gary Williams, the Research and Building Partnerships Manager for Social Sciences, graduated from the University of Essex with a degree in History. He then completed an MA in War Studies at Kings College London and did a PhD in Politics at the University of Hull. Gary returned to Essex as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History before becoming a Research Assistant in the Department of Politics at the University of Edinburgh, working on a project about privacy protection in the virtual society. Gary found himself back at Essex again when he was appointed Senior Research Officer at Qualidata (now part of the Data Archive) before moving to the Economic and Social Research Council where he was a Senior Science Manager for seven years before returning, yet again, to Essex. Gary has published several articles and a book – US-Grenada Relations: Revolution and Intervention in the Backyard (2007).
Beate Reinhardt, the Research and Building Partnerships Manager for Science and Health, graduated from the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, with an MSc in Biology. She then studied for a PhD in Cell Biology jointly at the University of California Irvine (UCI), USA, and the Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany. After spending a short postdoctoral period at UCI studying the molecular basis of morphogenesis using the primitive animal Hydra as a model organism, she took a postdoctoral position at the University of Sheffield, where she studied the role of plant hormones during leaf development. Her first job outside the lab was as information and funding officer at the University of York before moving to the University of Essex.
