New Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education appointed

Professor Whatmore is Professor of Environment and Public Policy at Oxford, and the institution's Academic Champion for Public Engagement with Research. She read geography at University College London, where she also completed a DPhil. She completed her DSc at the University of Bristol. A Fellow of Keble College, she has previously held posts at UCL, Bristol, Leeds and the Open University. Her research addresses cultures of nature and interrogates the ways in which human relations with the natural world are practiced and contested in the conduct of science, governance and everyday life. A Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Whatmore is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), and is an appointed member of the Defra Science Advisory Council (SAC) and Chair of its Social Science Expert sub-group. Professor Whatmore said: 'I look forward to working with the Vice-Chancellor, colleagues and students across the University and colleges to advance Oxford's exceptional educational opportunities.