Chris Manion

Chris is Head of Grants at the British Science Association (BSA) and has responsibility for delivering The Ideas Fund, which is piloting a new way of supporting communities to work in partnership with researchers. Chris has over 15 years’ experience in delivering grant making programmes both in the UK and internationally, ranging from a £240m programme designing and building youth centres across England, to supporting livelihoods for disabled people in East Africa. He’s passionate about how funding practice needs to change in order to achieve long-term impact.