Professor Dame Janet Finch joins Manchester

One of the country's leading social scientists and retiring Keele University Vice Chancellor is to join The University of Manchester. Professor Dame Janet Finch will take an honorary position at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, based in the School of Social Sciences, next month. Professor Finch will retire from her role as Vice Chancellor at Keele University, where she has been since 1995 in August. Before that she was at Lancaster University, where she was Pro Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations. She has recently been appointed Chair of Main Panel C for the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework exercise, the new system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions to be completed in 2014. She was awarded a CBE in the 1999 New Year's Honours List for services to Social Science. In the same year she was named as one of the Founder Academicians of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences.