Janet Beer
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Janet Beer is the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University. She took over from Graham Upton
in September 2007, having previously been Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Arts and Humanties at Manchester Metropolitan University
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Professor Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, took up post in 2007. She is a graduate of Reading and Warwick Universities and as a postgraduate student, held a fellowship at Yale University. She worked for the Inner London Education Authority between 1983 and 1989 and has fulfilled academic and leadership roles at Warwick, Roehampton and Manchester Metropolitan.
Professor Beer has an established record of research in late nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature and culture and contemporary Canadian women’s writing. She has published widely in these fields and is currently completing a study of the late writing of Edith Wharton.
Professor Beer has a significant national profile and is the current chair of the national steering group for the National Student Survey (HEFCE). She sits on the Advisory Board of the Higher Education Policy Institute, is a Board member of the Higher Education Academy and Chair of its Academic Council, a Board member of the Equality Challenge Unit, a member of the Financial Sustainability Strategy Group (HEFCE), a member of the Advisory Group: Matched funding scheme for voluntary giving (HEFCE), the Finance and Management Policy Group (UUK), a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of American Studies and, in August 2009, became the Chair of University Alliance.
Graham Upton
Graham Upton is acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Cumbria. He was the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, from September 1997 to August 2007....
in September 2007, having previously been Pro-Vice Chancellor and Dean of Arts and Humanties at Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester Metropolitan University is a university in North West England. Its headquarters and central campus is in the city of Manchester, but there are outlying facilities in the county of Cheshire. It is the third largest university in the United Kingdom in terms of student numbers, behind the...
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Professor Janet Beer, Vice-Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, took up post in 2007. She is a graduate of Reading and Warwick Universities and as a postgraduate student, held a fellowship at Yale University. She worked for the Inner London Education Authority between 1983 and 1989 and has fulfilled academic and leadership roles at Warwick, Roehampton and Manchester Metropolitan.
Professor Beer has an established record of research in late nineteenth and early twentieth century American literature and culture and contemporary Canadian women’s writing. She has published widely in these fields and is currently completing a study of the late writing of Edith Wharton.
Professor Beer has a significant national profile and is the current chair of the national steering group for the National Student Survey (HEFCE). She sits on the Advisory Board of the Higher Education Policy Institute, is a Board member of the Higher Education Academy and Chair of its Academic Council, a Board member of the Equality Challenge Unit, a member of the Financial Sustainability Strategy Group (HEFCE), a member of the Advisory Group: Matched funding scheme for voluntary giving (HEFCE), the Finance and Management Policy Group (UUK), a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of American Studies and, in August 2009, became the Chair of University Alliance.