Meet the team

Find out more about our fantastic Development and Alumni Relations Team (DART).

For general enquiries, please email: alumni@liverpool.ac.uk 

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Dominic Boyd
Director of Development and Alumni Relations

Dom provides strategic leadership for the University's Development and Alumni Relations team, overseeing fundraising, alumni relations and operations. A member of the External Relations leadership team, Dom leads the University's fundraising and alumni engagement strategy, working with philanthropists, graduates and partners around the world to build meaningful connections with the University, support its strategic ambitions and foster a globally connected community.

D.Boyd@liverpool.ac.uk

 

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Michaela Riches
Deputy Director of Development and Alumni Relations

michaela.riches@liverpool.ac.uk | 07909 897643

 

Monica Holmes
Monica Holmes
Executive Assistant to the Director

Monica is the Executive Assistant to Dom the Director.

monica.holmes@liverpool.ac.uk | 0151 795 4683

Development

General enquiries: giving@liverpool.ac.uk 

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Rosita Spenton
Development Assistant

Rosita provides the team with project management, administrative and organisational support. Rosita is the main point of contact for general fundraising enquiries and information.

rlangley@liverpool.ac.uk 

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Mark Horne
Head of Philanthropy

Mark leads the individual and major giving team, and works directly with some of Liverpool’s most significant donors and senior volunteers to make a transformative difference for our students, our world-leading research, our city and the University. If you’d like to learn how you can make a contribution please do contact Mark.

mark.horne@liverpool.ac.uk | 07812 238523

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Frankie Spickernell
Head of Trusts and Corporate Philanthropy

Frankie oversees relationships with major charitable trusts and foundations, in addition to philanthropic corporate partners. This includes working across each faculty, and with senior volunteers, to align the University of Liverpool’s world-leading reaching and teaching with funders’ strategic priorities. If you are a Trustee of a trust or foundation, or help to support your corporation’s CSR function, please don’t hesitate to contact Frankie for an introductory conversation. 

Francesca.Spickernell@liverpool.ac.uk 

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Rachel Harrison
Trusts and Foundations Manager

Rachel.Harrison@liverpool.ac.uk

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Edward Keeble
Trusts and Foundations Manager

Edward.Keeble@liverpool.ac.uk  

 

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Sarah Lee
Development Manager

Sarah works with outstanding alumni and supporters who want to give back to the University by supporting our fundraising priorities, volunteering their time, and sharing experiences with current students.

sarah.lee@liverpool.ac.uk | 07973 247832

 

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Emma Kane
Development Manager

Emma works with exceptional alumni and supporters dedicated to making a difference to the University. They contribute by supporting our fundraising goals, volunteering their time, and sharing advice and experience with current students. If you’re interested in making an impact, please do contact Emma.

emma.kane@liverpool.ac.uk | 07442 843279

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Sophie Bentley
Development Manager

Sophie collaborates with alumni and supporters who are passionate about giving back—whether through strategic fundraising, volunteering their time, or sharing their experiences and expertise with current students. Together, creating a lasting impact and shaping the future of our University community.

sophie.bentley@liverpool.ac.uk | 07350 426916

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Catherine El-Saiegh
Development Manager

Catherine works closely with alumni and supporters who are passionate about helping the University and its students thrive. Through philanthropy, volunteering, and sharing expertise, supporters make a transformative difference to our students, world leading research, the city, and the University.

Catherine.El-Saiegh@liverpool.ac.uk

 

Megan Bradshaw
Donor Relations Manager

Megan.Bradshaw@liverpool.ac.uk | 07825 087236

 

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Carolyn Jones
Legacy Officer

Carolyn is the first point of contact for supporters who are considering leaving a gift to the University in their Will. She is responsible for all aspects of the legacy giving programme, helping to raise awareness through calendar events and developing marketing materials.

carolyn.jones@liverpool.ac.uk | 0151 795 1067


Dr Carly Deering
Stewardship Officer

Carly is responsible for communicating with donors to keep them informed of the impact and outcomes of their donations, updating them on relevant activities at the University and accomplishments of scholarship recipients.

cdeering@liverpool.ac.uk

Alumni and supporter engagement

General enquiries: alumni@liverpool.ac.uk  

Anita Irving

Anita Irving
Associate Director of Alumni Engagement and Regular Giving

Anita leads the Alumni & Supporter Engagement team and is responsible for delivering the alumni and supporter engagement strategy to connect our global network of more than 300,000 Liverpool alumni, parents and supporters across the globe to the University.

anita.irving@liverpool.ac.uk | 0151 795 5642 | 07812 238517

 

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Caroline Mitchell
Head of Alumni Engagement

Caroline leads the alumni engagement team to implement activities and events which help to empower our global alumni community to build their connections through our global and academic networks, and to volunteer their support to enhance University aims such as the experiences and careers of students and graduates.

caroline.mitchell@liverpool.ac.uk | 07387258442   

Haibei Feng

Haibei Feng
Alumni Engagement Manager (China)

Haibei is responsible for engaging with University of Liverpool alumni living in Mainland China and is based at XJTLU, our partner campus in Suzhou. She would love to hear from any alumni in the China networks, whether you are Chinese or expatriate.

haibei.feng@liverpool.ac.uk | 0086 512 88169091

 

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Chantel Baldry
Volunteer Engagement Manager

Chantel leads on developing and managing an innovative alumni volunteer programme. She works collaboratively with colleagues across the team and wider university to implement a range of activities to encourage alumni to offer their time and expertise to help advance key strategic aims.

c.baldry@liverpool.ac.uk 

 


Victoria Gilmore
Alumni Engagement Officer (Faculty of Health and Life Sciences)

Victoria is responsible for our alumni and supporter volunteer engagement programme. https://forms.office.com/e/bYujZQnNhG. 

victoria.gilmore@liverpool.ac.uk

 

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Kaz Scattergood
Alumni Engagement Officer (Humanities and Social Sciences)

K.Scattergood@liverpool.ac.uk

 

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Katie Baker
Alumni Engagement Office (Science and Engineering)

K.Baker7@liverpool.ac.uk 
 

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Dr Yiyi Wang
Alumni Engagement Officer (International)

Yiyi is responsible for engaging with and supporting our international graduate community.

Yiyi.Wang2@liverpool.ac.uk | 07741 102081

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Alice Brett-Dunning
Alumni Engagement Officer

Alice.Brett-Dunning@liverpool.ac.uk

 

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Lisa Gerraty
Alumni Engagement Manager (University of Liverpool Management School)

Lisa is responsible for our global network of Management School alumni, with a particular focus on engaging Postgraduate alumni.

lisa.gerraty@liverpool.ac.uk 

 

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Sam Riella
Alumni Engagement Officer (Management School)

Sam is responsible for engaging with our Management School undergraduate alumni, both in the UK and overseas, and encourages them to remain actively involved in the life of the University. 

samantha.riella@liverpool.ac.uk 

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Francesca McFarlane
Head of Alumni and Supporter Communications

Francesca leads the Communications and Regular Giving team, engaging alumni and supporters across a range of channels. Each month, our team is in touch with more than 150,000 alumni and supporters around the world. We highlight ways our community can support students and our research, and we also help our graduates and supporters stay connected to the University, the city and their classmates.

F.Mcfarlane@liverpool.ac.uk | 07818 5214957

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Ivy Sala
Regular Giving Manager

Ivy is responsible for our fundraising activity through telephone, mail and digital campaigns for the Student Fund as well as managing the annual disbursement of funds to student-facing projects.

ivy.sala@liverpool.ac.uk | 0151 794 6987

 

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Dr Sarah Green
Regular Giving Officer

Sarah builds relationships with outstanding alumni who want to give back to the University by supporting our fundraising priorities, volunteering their time and sharing experiences with our current students.

sgreen@liverpool.ac.uk | 07385 025263

 

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Charlotte Glover
Communications and Marketing Manager

Charlotte supports the delivery of our communication priorities, which includes our alumni e-newsletters and managing our social media channels.

charlotte.glover@liverpool.ac.uk | +44 7350 403215 | Connect with me on LinkedIn

 

Alison Barkley
Communications Support Officer

Alison.Barkley@liverpool.ac.uk 

 

Phil Jones
Communications Support Officer

P.Jones16@liverpool.ac.uk 

 

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Millie Nelson
Alumni Engagement Assistant

Millie is the first point of contact for general Alumni enquiries. She provides support for a variety of activities pertaining to the successful delivery of Alumni & Supporter engagement projects.

melissa.nelson@liverpool.ac.uk 

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Margaret Dzioba-Myszkowska
Events Coordinator

Margaret coordinates the Development and Alumni Relations team's key engagement events.

M.dzioba@liverpool.ac.uk | +44 (0)7584540828

Development services

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Stephanie Donnelly
Associate Director of Development Services

Stephanie is responsible for overseeing the strategic planning of the team ensuring all activities are aligned to Strategy 2031 and DART’s strategic plan. Stephanie is also responsible DART’s specialist functions: Prospect Research, Reporting & Insight, Gift Processing and Data Management.

stephanie.donnelly@liverpool.ac.uk 

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Stephen Kehoe
Head of Development Services

Stephen is responsible for the development and management of DART’s specialist functions: Prospect Research, Reporting & Insights, Gift Processing and Data Management which support DART activity through effective operations. Stephen is also the team's GDPR specialist, please speak to him if you wish to contact alumni or have any alumni data queries.

stephen.kehoe@liverpool.ac.uk

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Patrick Clancy
Data Systems and Insight Manager

Patrick manages our alumni database and associated systems. Data underpins everything we do, and Patrick works with colleagues and stakeholders to ensure that our data is managed in the most efficient way and is used to deliver the highest engagement possible with our audiences.

Patrick.Clancy@liverpool.ac.uk

 

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Jack Thorpe
Data Officer

alumni.data@liverpool.ac.uk

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Jo Dunnill
Data and Gift Administration Officer

alumni.data@liverpool.ac.uk

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Richard Simpson
Data Systems and Insights Officer

Richard.Simpson@liverpool.ac.uk

 

Roia McHugh
Research Manager

Roia.Mchugh@liverpool.ac.uk 

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Sarah Cowell
Senior Researcher

Sarah’s role is to identify individuals, organisations, and members of our alumni community who may be interested in supporting our work. She also helps to keep donor information updated, and works closely with the Development team to support their function.

Sarah.Cowell@liverpool.ac.uk

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Amy Charles
Senior Research Officer

Amy.Charles@liverpool.ac.uk

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Josh James-Farrell
Researcher

Josh helps to identify individuals who may be interested in supporting our work. He ensures the information the team holds is accurate and up to date.

Joshua.James-Farrell@liverpool.ac.uk

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