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Kevin Shakesheff | |
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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 has served as Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the Open University since April 2021. [4]
Shakesheff qualified as a Pharmacist in the early 1990s and received a PhD in Advanced Drug Delivery Systems from the University of Nottingham [5] 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. [4] [5] In 2019 he was elected to the Chair of OneNottingham. [6]
Shakesheff became the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the Open University in 2021,and in September 2025 he will become Vice Chancellor of Keele University. [5] [7]