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Christina Miariti

Biography

Christina is Programme co-Director of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC). She has 17 years of experience in Higher Education in research development and impact roles. She has managed collaborative awards (EC Framework programmes 6 and 7) for a research centre of the University of Sheffield (SEERC) and most recently worked with researchers to develop impact plans for grant applications as a member of the Impact team at the University of Sussex. She has delivered a range of workshops on research impact and has designed bespoke materials and guidance on related topics.

Before moving to Higher Education, she worked briefly as a radio reporter and held Communications posts for Associations and NGOs.

Christina has a MBA (University of Sussex Business School) and a MA in International Communications (University of Leeds) and is a Scholar of the Onassis Public Benefit foundation.

Christina has worked on project management for the Resource Lab, and also on TIPC programme pillars to facilitate the knowledge community and strengthen links between people, projects and practices for Transformative Innovation Policy globally.

University Profile: https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p115782-christina-miariti

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TIP Knowledge Infrastructure Report

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Introducing Theory of Change from Sustainability Transitions Perspective

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Creating the conditions for second-order learning in a digital space

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