Vice-Chancellor


Professor Jane Norman was appointed the eighth President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham on 1 January 2025. 

The President and Vice-Chancellor is responsible for ensuring excellence and impact across all academic areas. This includes the delivery of an outstanding education and student experience; fostering outstanding research of global importance and deepening interaction, innovation and partnerships; inspiring an inclusive institutional culture; ensuring financial and environmental sustainability; and the fulfilment of the university’s global and civic mission.  

The Vice-Chancellor works closely with the Pro-Vice-Chancellors, as well as with the Registrar, and leads the senior team in ensuring the university's overall mission is being met and that policies established by the governing and legislative bodies are being fulfilled.

 A key part of the Vice-Chancellor's role is to represent the university both locally and externally to governments in the UK and overseas, to major donors and supporters, helping to raise the profile of the University of Nottingham nationally and internationally. The Vice-Chancellor leads development activities, including fundraising and the amplification of the university's reputation and scope, both in the UK and overseas.

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Profile

Professor Jane Norman graduated in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1986. She was awarded an MD by the University of Edinburgh in 1992 and trained in clinical and academic medicine in Edinburgh and Glasgow. 

Prior to joining the University of Nottingham as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost in December 2022 her previous roles include Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow (2007-2008), Director of the Edinburgh Tommy’s Centre for Maternal and Fetal Health (2008-2019), Vice Principal People and Culture at the University of Edinburgh (2013-2019) and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Bristol (2019-2022). She was an Honorary Consultant Obstetrician in the NHS in Glasgow (1995-2008) and in Edinburgh (2008-2019).   

Jane is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She has served as a Non-Executive Director of University Hospitals Bristol and Weston since 2021. In 2024, Jane was appointed to the Board of UK Research and Innovation.

Research & Teaching

For the last 30 years, Jane’s translational research programme has investigated factors responsible for the initiation of normal parturition and developed strategies for the prevention of preterm birth and stillbirth. Much of her work had been in conducting large multicentre randomised trials for the treatment and prevention of preterm birth and stillbirth.The interventions she has tested include drugs, diagnostic and therapeutic devices, and packages of care. She has conducted laboratory-based and preclinical studies, which demonstrated that normal and preterm parturition are both inflammatory events, and used routinely collected data to determine the optimal timing of birth for mother and baby. Her work has informed national and international guidelines, including those by the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (UK) and the World Health Organisation.

She has served on a variety of grant awarding panels, most recently chairing the Wellcome Trust Science Interview Panel and the National Institute for Health Research Global Groups grant panel. She was a member of panel 1A (clinical medicine) for the 2021 UK Research Excellence Framework. Jane was awarded the quinquennial ‘Eardly Holland Medal’ by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2020.

 

 

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