Steven Arthur Hill is Director of Research at
Research England, a council of
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Education
Hill was educated at the
University of Cambridge where he studied the
Natural Sciences Tripos
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. He moved to the
University of Edinburgh where he was awarded a
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in 1990 for research on the regulation on
mitochondrial function in ''
Cucumis sativus L.'' seedlings supervised by
Chris Leaver.
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Career and research
After various
postdoctoral research appointments, Hill served as a
Lecturer
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in the
Department of Plant Sciences at the
University of Oxford for eight years. He moved into
science policy, with two roles at the
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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(DEFRA), focussing on bringing science and research into
policy-making. Subsequently, he was appointed head of the strategy unit at
Research Councils UK (RCUK), and then took up the post of head of
research policy at the
Higher Education Funding Council for England
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(HEFCE) in 2013.
References
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Living people
21st-century British botanists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh