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Kevin Shakesheff | |
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| Vice Chancellor of Keele University | |
| Assumed office 2025 | |
| Pro-Vice Chancellor of Open University | |
| In office 2021–2025 | |
| Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of Nottingham | |
| In office 2015–2021 | |
| Succeeded by | Zoe Wilson [1] |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1969 [2] |
| Website | https://about.open.ac.uk/governance-ou/executive-team/pro-vice-chancellor-res |
| Education | University of Nottingham |
| Alma mater | University of Nottingham Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| Awards | RISE award (EPSRC) [3] |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Regenerative Medicine Biological Therapy |
Kevin Shakesheff FMedSci is a British Medical Biologist. He is Vice-Chancellor of Keele University [4] ,and has served as Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the Open University. [5]
Shakesheff qualified as a Pharmacist in the early 1990s and received a PhD in Advanced Drug Delivery Systems from the University of Nottingham [6] School of Pharmacy. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT In 1997 Shakesheff returned to the University of Nottingham as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow. He became a Professor in 2002,and in 2015 became the first Pro-Vice Chancellor for Science there. [5] [6] In 2019 he was elected to the Chair of OneNottingham. [7]
Shakesheff became the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the Open University in 2021,and in September 2025 became Vice Chancellor of Keele University.