{"id":651,"date":"2026-06-15T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=651"},"modified":"2026-06-15T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T08:26:29","slug":"chief-research-support-and-compliance-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/06\/15\/chief-research-support-and-compliance-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Research Support and Compliance Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/karen-sergiou-9ab0a850\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Dr Karen Sergiou<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0has accepted\u00a0appointment\u00a0as Chief Research Support and Compliance Officer with effect from 3 August 2026.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Reporting to the Registrar and University Secretary, in this role\u00a0Karen will\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">lead the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/research-and-innovation\/research-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Research Support and Compliance Division<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">, which launched on 1 May following the recent\u00a0organisational\u00a0changes to strengthen Imperial\u2019s overall research capabilities. The Division\u00a0comprises\u00a0the following functions:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Research Support and Assurance<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Research Systems and Information<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Research Governance and Integrity<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Research Security and Contracts (including EU contracts)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Karen is widely recognised across the sector for her\u00a0expertise\u00a0in research operations, governance, assurance,\u00a0organisational\u00a0transformation\u00a0and digital change. Her current work includes\u00a0a central role\u00a0within our own Great Service Programme, where Karen has been leading development of the future research operating model and contributing specialist\u00a0expertise\u00a0to the Atlas implem<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">entation programme.\u00a0Previous\u00a0roles include\u00a0advising\u00a0the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford on their major research transformation\u00a0programmes, Director of Research Services at UCL, as well as\u00a0previous\u00a0Imperial experience as\u00a0Head of Research Operations.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Ben Hughes will continue to provide interim leadership of the Division until Karen starts, when he will join Karen\u2019s leadership team as Director of Research Security and Contracts.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Karen Sergiou\u00a0has accepted\u00a0appointment\u00a0as Chief Research Support and Compliance Officer with effect from 3 August 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}