Kevin Shakesheff is a British Medical Biologist. He has served as Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the

Open University The Open University (OU) is a Public university, public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by List of universities in the United Kingdom by enrolment, number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate ...

since April 2021.

Career

Shakesheff qualified as a Pharmacist in the early 1990s and received a PhD in Advanced Drug Delivery Systems from the

University of Nottingham The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, England. It was founded as University College Nottingham in 1881, and was granted a royal charter in 1948. Nottingham's main campus (University Park Campus, Nottingh ...

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. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at

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In 1997 Shakesheff returned to the University of Nottingham as an

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Advanced Fellow. He became a Professor in 2002, and in 2015 became the first Pro-Vice Chancellor for Science there. In 2019 he was elected to the Chair of OneNottingham. Shakesheff became the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the

in 2021, and in September 2025 he will become Vice Chancellor of

Keele University Keele University is a Public university#United Kingdom, public research university in Keele, approximately from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, it was granted uni ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shakesheff, Kevin Living people British biologists Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Vice-chancellors of Keele University People associated with the Open University Alumni of the University of Nottingham