Julia Goodfellow
| Dame Julia Mary Goodfellow | |
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| Born | 1 July 1951 |
| Citizenship | UK |
| Institutions |
University of Bristol University of Kent Open University Birbeck College |
| Thesis | Structural studies of the corneal stroma (1975) |
| Notable awards |
DBE FMedSci, |
| Spouse | Peter Goodfellow |
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Website www |
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Dame Julia Mary Goodfellow, DBE, FMedSci, FInstP (née Lansdall; born 1 July 1951) is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent, and Chair of the British Science Association. She is the president of Universities UK from 1 August 2015 until July 2017.
Goodfellow completed her BSc degree in physics at the University of Bristol and obtained a PhD degree in biophysics at the Open University Research Unit in Oxford. She began her career as Professor of Biomolecular Science at Birkbeck College in 1995, and was promoted to Vice Master in 1998. In 2002, she was appointed chief executive of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, the first woman to lead a UK research council. Goodfellow served as chair of the British Science Association from 2009 to 2014.
In 2007, she was appointed Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent. In 2011, she was appointed to both the Council for Science and Technology and the Science and Technology Facilities Council. Currently, Goodfellow is a member of the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) advisory board.
Goodfellow has been elected Universities UK president from 2015-2017 and is the first woman to hold the role. In 2015, Goodfellow stated that Universities UK supported staying in the European Union, citing the “economic growth, employable graduates and cutting edge research discoveries” that the EU could provide in the education sector.
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