Anne Wolfes

I lead the planning, delivery, and continuous development of the Medical Sciences Division’s researcher development and skills training portfolio, to support graduate students and researchers at scale. I also contribute to wider university, national, and global researcher development projects.

My core aims are to align training with divisional priorities, research culture commitments, and funder requirements. Alongside this, I shape and implement policy to evolve training provision to better serve research staff and students across research and teaching, professional skills, and career development. To achieve this, I work closely with the Director of Skills Training and Researcher Development and the Skills Training Coordinator, as well as with academic leadership and professional services colleagues, plus external partners.

I act as a key point of coordination and representation for training and researcher development, support governance through committee work (for example as Secretary to the divisional Skills Training Committee), and oversee operational delivery, including budget management and strategic partnerships across the University and beyond.

I have served in various roles at the central, divisional, and departmental level at the University since 2022, all with a focus on researcher professional and career development and to support research staff and students in their research commitments.

Before joining the University professional services, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London and at the University of Oxford, as a consultant for a biotech company start-up, and also as a medical writer and editor for 2.5 years between my academic research appointments. My PhD was in the Molecular Physiology of the Brain, at the Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences.

I continue to give professional skills workshops (as a freelancer) for researchers at all seniority levels, with a focus on science communication, project and time management, and career-planning.