Research and Innovation

Title: Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation)
Email: a.l.meredith@keele.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1782 734489
Location: Claus Moser CM2.15
Contacting me: Executive Assistant - Sheila Allen s.a.allen@keele.ac.uk

Biography

Anna Meredith joined Keele as PVC Executive Dean, Faculty of Natural Sciences in 2024. Prior to this she was at the University of Edinburgh (since 1992), and between 2018 and 2022 she was Head of Melbourne Veterinary School. She is a Professor of Zoological and Conservation Medicine and her interests and expertise lie at the interface between animal, human and ecosystem health (One Health), the conservation of biodiversity, and wildlife population health.

Professor Meredith graduated from the University of Oxford (MA Physiological Sciences), University of Cambridge (MA and VetMB) and University of Edinburgh (PhD), and is a Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Recognised Specialist in Zoological Medicine.

Outside academia she has held a variety of governance and board roles, and is a current member of the UK Government's Animal Sentience Committee, Chair and Trustee of Wildlife Vets International, and Trustee of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland and Restoring Upland Nature. A Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, she is a member of the RCVS Fellowship Board and Chairs the Fellowship Science Advisory Panel. She previously chaired thew UK Government's Zoos Expert Committee for 10 years ad advised Scottish Government as a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Council. During her time in Australia Professor Meredith served as a Member of the Management Committee of Wildlife Health Australia (WHA) and on the Boards of Zoos Victoria and the Centre for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (CEBRA).

She was awarded an OBE in 2019 for services to animal welfare and the veterinary profession.