Robyn Rowan

Robyn Rowan joins us as a School Research Grants Administrator from the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences. She will be supporting the McDonald Institute. Robyn has over 12 years of experience in research grants administration, with 11 years at Arizona State University, including roles as the Assistant Director for Research Advancement with the School of Life Sciences and most recently as Research Advancement Manager for the Biodesign Institute. In 2025 she moved to the University of Cambridge and supported the Department of Social Anthropology as a School Research Grants Assistant. She is a Certified Research Administrator (CRA)—awarded by the Research Administrators Certification Council in the US. Robyn is the key contact for research grant administration in the MIAR, providing financial and administrative support across the full grant lifecycle.