Lucy Cavendish College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.
Dame Alison Fettes Richard,is an English anthropologist,conservationist and university administrator. She was the 344th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge,the third Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge since the post became full-time,and the second woman. Before arriving at Cambridge,she served as the provost of Yale University from 1994 to 2002.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom,which was responsible for the distribution of funding for higher education to universities and further education colleges in England since 1992. It ceased to exist as of 1 April 2018,when its duties were divided between the newly created Office for Students and Research England.
Julia Elizabeth King,Baroness Brown of Cambridge,is a British engineer and a crossbench member of the House of Lords,where she chairs the Select Committee on Science and Technology. She is the incumbent chair of the Carbon Trust and the Henry Royce Institute,and was the vice-chancellor of Aston University from 2006 to 2016.
Dame Sandra June Noble Dawson,is a British social scientist and academic. She was Master of Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge from 1999 to 2009,making her the first woman to be master of a formerly all male College at the University of Cambridge. She was the inaugural KPMG Professor of Management Studies at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
Dame Glynis Marie Breakwell is a British social psychologist,researcher and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath. In January 2014 she was listed in the Science Council's list of '100 leading UK practising scientists'. Her tenure as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bath was marred by controversy over her remuneration,culminating in her dismissal.
Dame Janet Valerie Finch DBE,DL,FAcSS is a British sociologist and academic administrator. She was Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations at Keele University,and has held a number of other public appointments in the UK. She currently holds an honorary position at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life,based in the School of Social Sciences,University of Manchester. She is also part of Flooved advisory board.
Dame Jean Olwen Thomas,is a Welsh biochemist,former Master of St Catharine's College,Cambridge,and Chancellor of Swansea University.
Dame Veronica Evelyn Sutherland,DBE,CMG is a former British career diplomat who served in the Diplomatic Service of the United Kingdom from 1965 until 1999,including a stint as Ambassador to the Republic of Ireland. After retirement,she was appointed President of the Lucy Cavendish College,Cambridge from 2001 until 2008.
Sir Keith Burnett,CBE,FRS FLSW FINSTP is a British physicist and President Elect of the Institute of Physics. He is Chair of the Nuffield Foundation —an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance educational opportunity and social well-being,founding Chair of the Academic Council the Schmidt Science Fellows,and a member of the Board of international education providers Study Group.
Professor Dame Janet Patricia Beer,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.
Dame Ann Patricia Dowling is a British mechanical engineer who researches combustion,acoustics and vibration,focusing on efficient,low-emission combustion and reduced road vehicle and aircraft noise. Dowling is a Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Mechanical Engineering,and from 2009 to 2014 she was Head of the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge,where she was the first female professor in 1993. She was President of the Royal Academy of Engineering from 2014 to 2019,the Academy's first female president.
Dame Lynn Faith Gladden is the Shell Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge. She served as Pro-vice-chancellor for research from 2010 to 2016.
Dame Alice Rosemary Murray,was an English chemist and educator. She was instrumental in establishing New Hall,Cambridge,now Murray Edwards College,Cambridge,and was the first woman to hold the office of Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.
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.
Ruth Sarah Farwell retired as Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Buckinghamshire New University in February 2015.
Dame Julia Unwin was chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust(JRHT). The Guardian in 2007 described her as a "major player in the voluntary sector." In 2012 she was appointed by the Scottish Government as a member of the Expert Working Group on Welfare and Constitutional Reform.
Dame Helen Valerie Atkinson is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University's School of Aerospace,Transport and Manufacturing. She was previously Head of the University of Leicester's Department of Engineering and later Leicester's Graduate Dean. In 2010,she was designated one of the UKRC's Women of Outstanding Achievement and featured in the Women of Outstanding Achievement Photographic Exhibition. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2007,was a vice-president of the Academy from 2012 to 2014 and was elected to its Trustee Board in 2014.
Dame Clare Lucy Marx was a British surgeon who was president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from July 2014 to July 2017,the first woman to hold the position,and former chair of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management. From January 2019 until July 2021,Dame Clare was chair of the General Medical Council,the first woman appointed to that role.
Dame Ann Geraldine Limb is a British educationalist,business leader,charity chair and philanthropist. In September 2015,she became the first woman Chair of The Scout Association since the organization was founded by Robert Baden Powell in 1907. Limb also serves as the 789th High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire,the first Quaker to hold this office.
