The Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) is responsible for the development and implementation of the University’s strategies for research and knowledge exchange. They also oversee the Doctoral College and the University’s interdisciplinary research Institutes.
Professor Fiona Matthews joined the University of Hull in October 2023.
Prior to her role as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise), Fiona was the Dean of Research and Innovation (and Professor of Epidemiology) in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University.
A statistician by training, prior to Newcastle she was a Programme Leader at the MRC Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge University (where she obtained her PhD). In 2018 she became Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University and was responsible for their REF2021 submission.
Fiona is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. Externally, Fiona has been chair of an ESRC Grant Assessment Panel and a panel member for the MRC Centre of Research Excellence and is currently on the panels for the ESRC Centre call and the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships.
Fiona’s research interests include utilising and developing state of the art analysis methods to investigate ageing, healthy life expectancy and autism using population based epidemiological studies and routine data. Fiona’s particular research focus involves interdisciplinary research to understand the influence of inequalities in population health.