Self-Assessment Team

Professor Patrick Bailey (Co-Chair)  Dean of Natural Sciences

He came to Keele in January 2008, after a varied academic background. His research has focused on Work on protein mechanisms, most recently on peptide transporters; the synthesis of alkaloids (toxic natural products that often have valuable pharmaceutical properties if used/developed in the right way) and studies on the synthesis and properties of unusual macrocycles. More.      

Pofessor Susan Bruce (Co-Chair) Head of School of Humanities

Susan Bruce is Professor of English and currently Head of Keele's School of Humanities.  Her previous roles at Keele include the Presidency of the local association of the UCU.  She has a long-standing interest in questions of gender equality and has in the past served as a member of Keele's Equal Opportunities Committee.  Her research is concerned with Early Modern and Twentieth-Century literatures, and she is currently co-editing a volume with a colleague from the University of Auckland entitled Feminist Moments.

Jo Lawton - Athena SWAN Support Officer        

Appointed to support the strategic development of the Athena SWAN Charter Scheme and to co-ordinate and promote the scheme within the University. Jo also provides advice and support to enable departments to apply for Athena SWAN Awards.  Jo is personally and professionally committed to promoting the gender equality agenda and informs her work with part-time study of an MA in Diversity Management.

Main contact for submission, Jo also services the self-assessment panel.  

If you would like to support the work of the SAT do please contact Jo.

Email : e.j.lawton@keele.ac.uk 

Room : Dorothy Hodgkin, Room DHO.09
Tel + 44 (0) 1782 733339

Professor Fiona Cownie - Prov Vice Chancellor (Educaion & Student Experience)

Jacqueline Potter - Head of the Learning and Professional Development   Centre

 Lucy King - Head of Recruitment, Outreach & Access

Anne Loweth - Athena SWAN Champion School of Life Sciences

Appointed as a Lecturer in Biochemistry in 2003 and promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2006. She was Head of School of Life Sciences from 2008-2013, during which time she led the school’s successful bid for a silver Athena SWAN award. She has served on Senate and Council and has sat on the Equality and Diversity Sub-Committee of Council. Research has focused on signal transduction in pancreatic beta cells in type 1 diabetes.

Sue Sherman -  Athena SWAN Champion School of Psychology

Appointed as a lecturer in the School of Psychology in September 2005. Her research is directed at revealing the mechanisms underlying language processing, focusing mainly on how we process words. She is particularly interested in how words are recognised in both the visual and the auditory modalities and in the effects of psycholinguistic variables (such as frequency, age of acquisition and concreteness) and linguistic variables (such as morphology) on the development and operation of these processes. Her research also focuses on aspects of implicit and explicit memory, particularly in the context of false memory for words. More.

Katie Szkornik - Lecturer in Geography, Athena SWAN Champion - SPGS

Appointed lecturer in Physical Geography in January 2007. Her main research interests lie in the field of Holocene sea-level change focussing on the use of diatoms and foraminifera as sea-level indicators and the development, application and assessment of microfossil-based transfer functions for reconstructing past sea-level change. She is also interested in identifying the driving mechanisms behind long-term changes in sea level (testing glacio- hydro- isostatic models). More.

Jane Richardson - Senior Lecturer, Athena SWAN Champion for the Research Institutue:Primary Care and Health Sciences

Stuart McKenna - Equality & Diversity Manager

Nikki Williams- Computing and Mathematics

Appointed as a Learning and Teaching Fellow in the School of Computing and Mathematics in September 2006.  Her research interests include knowledge modelling, computational aesthetics, elicitation techniques and computer science education. More.

Kelly Montana-Williams - Faculty Business Manager (Maternity Cover)

Dr Jamie Pringle, Lecturer in the School of Physical and Geographical                                     Sciences

Dr Charles Day, Lecturer in Computing and Mathematics