The Research Contracts and Partnership Agreements team offers dedicated support and resources for:

• Meeting with researchers and partners to establish goals and mutual beneficial outcomes during the research planning phase
• Establishing the appropriate type of agreement for your research partnership
• Advising in budget development
• Set-up and routing of internal approvals through the Research On Line Application system

Team contacts

• researchcontracts@uwo.ca

Team Members

Caroline Calmettes

Director,Research Contracts & Partnership Agreements

Telephone: 519-661-2111, ext. 80120
Email: ccalmett@uwo.ca

• Leads and provides expertise to the Research Contacts team.
• Provides guidance to researchers and external sponsors, and acts as a liaison to ensure research contracts meet Western's policies, collective agreement and best practices
• Provides services to support sponsored research contracts and agreements involving industry, government and not-for-profit partners
• Areas of support include: master research agreements, industry partners and multi-party research projects

Suzanne Brett Welsh

Contracts Officer

Telephone: 519-661-2111, ext. 89425
Email: sbrettwe@uwo.ca

• Provides guidance and acts as a liaison to ensure research contracts meet Western's policies, collective agreement and best practices

Goretti Fordyce

Contracts Officer

Telephone: 519-661-2111, ext. 80180
Email: gfordyc3@uwo.ca

• Provides guidance and acts as a liaison to ensure research contracts meet Western's policies, collective agreement and best practices
• Reviews, negotiates, and provides guidance for inter-institutional agreements, subgrant and subcontract agreements
• Reviews and negotiates Tri-Agency/ US government subgrants, inter-institutional grant/ Heart & Stroke grant/ and network agreements, Western International MOUs and research collaboration agreements
• Areas of support include: Canada Foundation for Innovation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, European Union

Brenda Marston

Administrative Assistant

Telephone: 519-661-2111, ext. 85315
Email: bmarston@uwo.ca

• Facilitates administrative processes to ensure the maintenance of smooth operations within the Western Research portfolio
• Supports procurement, accounts receivable, budget monitoring and payroll
• Manages logistics, ordering, and tracking for office supplies and equipment
• Provides administrative assistance to Research Contracts team with record keeping, document coordination and communications

Heather Martin

Senior Contracts Officer

Telephone: 519-661-2111, ext. 84503
Email: heather.martin@uwo.ca

• Provides guidance and acts as a liaison to ensure research contracts meet Western's policies, collective agreement and best practices
• Reviews, negotiates, and provides advice and guidance to researchers for research contracts and agreements with federal and provincial government entities, agencies, foundations and other non-profit sponsors
• Supports the following programs and agreements: Canadian Space Agency and visiting student agreements with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
• Supports and manages community-based research agreements

Nancy McCreery

Contracts Coordinator

Telephone: 519-661-4254
Email: nancy.mccreery@uwo.ca

• Provides guidance and acts as a liaison to ensure research contracts meet Western's policies, collective agreement and best practices
• Reviews, negotiates, and provides advice and guidance for data transfer/material transfer agreements
• Reviews, negotiates and provides guidance for non-disclosure agreements and processes for equipment loan/ transfer agreements and software license agreements
• Manages the process for NIH dbGaP requests for datasets

Marta van Horik

Senior Contracts Officer

Telephone: 519-661-2111, ext. 81351
Email: mkobrzyn@uwo.ca

• Provides guidance and acts as a liaison to ensure research contracts meet Western's policies, collective agreement and best practices
• Reviews, negotiates, and administers sponsored research contracts and agreements with industry partners
• Supports the following matching funds agreements related to: NSERC Alliance, OCI VIP, Mitacs Accelerate, NSERC Alliance-OCI VIP, NSERC Alliance-Mitacs Accelerate
• Areas of support include: Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, (incl. Robarts Research Institute), Health Sciences, ImPaKt Facility