Janet Beer

Dame Janet Beer
Vice-Chancellor of University of Liverpool
In office
February 2015 – December 2022
Preceded bySir Howard Newby
Succeeded byTim Jones
President of Universities UK
In office
2017–2019
Preceded byJulia Goodfellow
Succeeded byJulia Buckingham
Personal details
Born (1956-08-01) 1 August 1956
Alma materUniversity of Reading
University of Warwick
ProfessionProfessor of English and American Literature
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Professor Dame Janet Patricia Beer, DBE is a British academic who served as the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from February 2015 until December 2022. She 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.