David Seymour Latchman | |
---|---|
Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck, University of London | |
In office 1 January 2003 –31 December 2023 | |
Chancellor | Anne,Princess Royal |
Preceded by | Sir Timothy O'Shea (as a Master) |
Succeeded by | Sally Wheeler |
Personal details | |
Born | January 1956 68) London,United Kingdom | (age
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA,PhD) University of London (DSc) |
David Seymour Latchman CBE (born January 1956) [1] is a British geneticist and university administrator. From 2003 to 2023 he has been Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck,University of London, [2] and since 1999 professor of genetics at University College London. [3]
Born into a Jewish family, [4] he is nephew and heir to the childless wealthy property developer Maurice Wohl and is chair of the Maurice Wohl Charitable Foundation. [5] As a child he attended Haberdashers' Boys' School. [6] Subsequently,in 1978,he obtained Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. In 1981 he was awarded by University of Cambridge Doctor of Philosophy and in 1993 by University of London,higher doctorate,Doctor of Science. [7]
Latchman worked in the medical molecular biology unit at University College London (UCL),and at Middlesex School of Medicine.
He has been professor of molecular pathology,and director of the Windeyer Institute of Medical Science,at UCL,and was dean of the Institute for Child Health (1999–2002). [8]
He serves on several committees including London Development Agency (observer status);Universities UK Research Policy Network;National DNA Database Ethics Group;London First (board member).[ citation needed ] [9]
As Master of Birkbeck,he voiced protest at UK government proposals to cut funding for second degrees. [10] Latchman was also a vocal advocate for part time degrees and government support to improve access for adults to higher education. [11]
Latchman was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours for services to higher education. [12]
Beginning in 2014,Latchman’s laboratory at UCL Institute of Child Health came under scrutiny after an anonymous whistleblower alleged that dozens of papers from the lab were doctored. [13] Two screening expert panels in 2014 and 2015 found evidence of research fraud in 14 papers from 1990 to 2013. [14] Even though the two investigations found no evidence that he intended to commit fraud or was aware of the fraud,they found he had been reckless in his running of the lab and co-authoring on the research and upheld an allegation of research misconduct against him. [14] A 2018 disciplinary hearing concluded that there were insufficient grounds for any formal action against him,noting that fraud was difficult to detect and urged senior research leaders to consider when to stop being named authors on papers. [13] [14] As of 2020,6 papers have been retracted and 2 papers have been corrected. [14] Colleagues called for his resignation,but Latchman remained a part-time professor of human genetics at UCL,and master of Birkbeck. He no longer has a lab and has stopped supervising research. [14]
Following his twenty years vice-chancellorship at Birkbeck,in 2024,he assumed the position of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of London,which is federal university consisting of seventeen member universities. As a Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of London,he is responsible for supporting the Board of Trusties of the University of London. [15]
The UCL Institute of Education (IOE) is the faculty of education and society of University College London (UCL). It specialises in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties. Prior to merging with UCL in 2014,it was a constituent college of the University of London. The IOE is ranked first in the world for education in the QS World University Rankings,and has been so every year since 2014.
Birkbeck,University of London,is a research university located in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London,England,and a member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute by its founder Sir George Birkbeck and its supporters- Jeremy Bentham,J. C. Hobhouse and Henry Brougham- Birkbeck is one of the few universities to specialise in evening higher education in the United Kingdom.
Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott,PPRSE,FRCPSG,FMedSci,FRCPath was a Scottish microbiologist who was Principal of the University of Strathclyde. He succeeded Lord Wilson of Tillyorn as President of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in October 2011 and was succeeded by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell in October 2014.
Paul William Wellings CBE DL FRSN FRSA FAICD is an Australian/British ecologist and long serving university leader. He is notable for his past service as Vice-Chancellor of University of Wollongong (2012–21),Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster University (2002–12) and Deputy Chief Executive of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (1999-2002).
Sir Malcolm John Grant,,FAcSS is a barrister,academic lawyer,and former law professor. Born and educated in New Zealand,he was the ninth President and Provost of University College London –the head as well as principal academic and administrative officer of the university –for over a decade from 2003 until 2013.
Professor Pamela Gillies is a Scottish academic and educator who served as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University from March 2006 until January 2023.
David William Rhind is a British geographer and expert on geographic information systems (GIS). He was Vice-Chancellor of City University,London,until July 2007.
Martyn Thomas CBE FREng FIET FRSA is a British independent consultant and software engineer.
Sir Steven George West is a British podiatrist,the vice-chancellor,president and chief executive officer of the University of the West of England since 2008. He holds a number of national and international advisory appointments in higher education,healthcare policy and regional government.
Jean Duthie Beggs CBE FRS FRSE DSc is a Scottish geneticist. She is the Royal Society Darwin Trust Professor in the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh.
The UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) is an academic department of the Faculty of Population Health Sciences of University College London (UCL) and is located in London,United Kingdom. It was founded in 1946 and together with its clinical partner Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH),forms the largest concentration of children's health research in Europe. In 1996 the Institute merged with University College London. Current research focusses on broad biomedical topics within child health,ranging from developmental biology,to genetics,to immunology and epidemiology.
Dame Julia Mary Goodfellow is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent,and Chair of the British Science Association. She was the president of Universities UK from 1 August 2015 until July 2017.
Martin Bobrow is a British geneticist,and Emeritus Fellow,Wolfson College,Cambridge.
Andrew Brian Wathey was the Vice-Chancellor of Northumbria University from 2008 to May 2022. He now holds the role of Chair of the National Archives’Board.
Rodney Harris was a British geneticist.
Richard Somerset Houlston is a British medical geneticist. He is a professor of molecular and population genetics at the Institute of Cancer Research in London.
The Proposed National Education Service is a 'unified National Education Service (NES) for England to move towards cradle-to-grave learning that is free at the point of use',proposed by the Labour Party in their manifesto for the 2017 general election. The National Education Service was again included in the Labour Party's manifesto for the 2019 General Election.
Julia Clare Buckingham is a British pharmacologist,academic and academic administrator. She is the former Vice Chancellor of Brunel University London,UK.