Janet Beer

Dame Janet Beer
Vice-Chancellor of University of Liverpool
In office
February 2015 – December 2022
Preceded bySir Howard Newby
Succeeded byTim Jones
President of Universities UK
In office
2017–2019
Preceded byJulia Goodfellow
Succeeded byJulia Buckingham
Personal details
Born (1956-08-01) 1 August 1956 (age 68)
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Reading
University of Warwick
ProfessionProfessor 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]

  1. ^ "New Year's Honours 2018" (PDF). Gov.uk. Government Digital Service. 29 December 2017. p. 10. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  2. ^ "New Vice-Chancellor appointed". Archived from the original on 30 May 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2008.
  3. ^ Alexandra Smith (6 October 2006). "Oxford Brookes appoints new VC". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 8 April 2008.