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.
11 Facts About Janet Beer
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Janet Beer 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.
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Dame Janet is a graduate of the University of Reading and Warwick University and held a fellowship at Yale University.
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Janet Beer worked for the Inner London Education Authority between 1983 and 1989 and fulfilled academic and leadership roles at Warwick, Roehampton and Manchester Metropolitan.
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Janet Beer was: a Trustee of UCAS from 2012 until 2017 and chaired their Audit Committee, a Trustee of the British Council from 2014 until 2020, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Higher Education Policy Institute from 2007 until 2017.
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Dame Janet Beer completed her term of office as chair of the steering group for the National Student Survey in 2016.
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Janet Beer previously chaired the Equality Challenge Unit and served as Vice President of Universities UK, England and Northern Ireland.
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Dame Janet Beer is a Council member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and chairs their Assurance Board; she is a member of the Advisory Board for the Government Skills and Curriculum Unit, Patron of the Mark Evison Foundation and took up the position of Chair of the Sport and Recreation Alliance in July 2022.
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Dame Janet Beer has an established record of research in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American literature and culture and contemporary Canadian women's writing.
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Janet Beer has written a number of books about Edith Wharton, most recently, in 2011, 'Sex, Satire and the Older Woman'.
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Janet Beer has published widely on early twentieth-century American literary figures, transatlantic relationships, and cultures.