Janet Finch

Dame Janet Valerie Finch DBE, DL, AcSS is a British sociologist and academic administrator. She was Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Social Relations at Keele University, and has held a number of other public appointments in the UK. She currently holds an honorary position at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, based in the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. Finch has published extensively on family relationships, her research interests focusing especially on inter-generational family relationships. In September 1995, Finch was appointed... Vice-Chancellor at Keele University, having previously been a Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Lancaster University. At Keele, she has overseen substantial alterations of the University and the increasing development of a private Science and Business Park.. Upon the appointment at the Keele Univeristy, she has pioneered the use of management consultants from the accountancy firm Coopers to figure out the way forward for the University. It is very likely that this has been the first instance of any British University to do such a pioneering piece of work.
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