Dame Janet Beer | |
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Vice-Chancellor of University of Liverpool | |
In office February 2015 – December 2022 | |
Preceded by | Sir Howard Newby |
Succeeded by | Tim Jones |
President of Universities UK | |
In office 2017–2019 | |
Preceded by | Julia Goodfellow |
Succeeded by | Julia Buckingham |
Personal details | |
Born | 1 August 1956 |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Reading University of Warwick |
Profession | Professor of English and American Literature |
Professor Dame Janet Patricia Beer,[1] DBE is a British academic who served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from February 2015 until December 2022. She took over from Howard Newby, having previously been Vice-Chancellor at Oxford Brookes University and Pro-Vice Chancellor Academic and Dean of Humanities, Law and Social Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University.[2][3]