Nancy Rothwell is the first woman Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester and is co-chair of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science & Technology. During her leadership at Manchester, the university’s reputation has been strongly enhanced and is now in the world’s top 50 universities, seventh in Europe and fifth in the UK. She takes a strong and active interest in the public communication of science and in addition to her academic career she has been involved in running and advising various research and funding bodies including the Medical Research Council, Cancer Research UK and the Biotechnology, Biological Sciences Research Council. Staying largely out of the sector politics fray, a recent turn on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs demonstrated her unusual standing and public reach for a university vice chancellor.
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Nancy Rothwell
Nancy Rothwell is the first woman Vice Chancellor of the University of Manchester and is co-chair of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science & Technology. During her leadership at Manchester, the university’s reputation has been strongly enhanced and is now in the world’s top 50 universities, seventh in Europe and fifth in the UK. She … Continued
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