Janet Beer
Dame Janet Beer | |
|---|---|
| Vice-Chancellor of University of Liverpool | |
| In office February 2015 – December 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Howard Newby |
| Succeeded by | Tim Jones |
| President of Universities UK | |
| In office 2017–2019 | |
| Preceded by | Julia Goodfellow |
| Succeeded by | Julia Buckingham |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1 August 1956 |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | University of Reading University of Warwick |
| Profession | Professor of English and American Literature |
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.