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Professor Fiona Beveridge is Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Liverpool. A key member of the Senior Leadership Team, she also leads a large Faculty and works closely with external partners to maximise the University's reach and impact and to foster the University's international reputation.

Fiona is a Professor of Law, specialising in international and EU law, in particular foreign investment law and gender equality law and policy. She has a particular expertise in gender mainstreaming (that is, the idea that gender concerns should be addressed systematically in all areas and by all actors), and how this is implemented in international institutions, the EU, and in individual states. In the UK this approach is best exemplified by the public sector equality duty, now contained in the Equality Act 2010. She has completed two studies for the European Parliament FEMM Committee, ‘A New Strategy for Gender Equality Post 2015’ and ‘The EU Budget for Gender Equality’.

Fiona is Chair of the Board of the University of Liverpool Press and a Non-Executive Director for Alder Hey Children’s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Fiona was also a Trustee of the Liverpool Football Club Foundation, the official charity of Liverpool Football Club from 2012-19.

Professor Christopher Smith is the Executive Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and International Champion for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). He has been Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews since 2002, and he was also Vice-Principal (2007-2009), before being seconded as Director of the British School at Rome, the UK’s leading humanities and creative arts research institute overseas, from 2009 to 2017. He is the author or editor of over 20 books from textual editions to museum studies. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the Academia Europaea

Steven Hill is Director of Research at Research England. Steven was formerly Head of Research Policy at the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), and leads on all aspects of research policy and funding.

Steven is responsible for research funding, including quality-related funding (QR), general capital funding and the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund (UKRPIF). He also leads Research England’s research assessment and policy work, and is the chair of the steering group for the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). Policy responsibilities include research integrity, public engagement and open research, and Steven contributes to debates and discussions at home and overseas on the enhancement and assessment of research impact. His team also includes Research England’s analysis function. 

Rachel is Head of Open Research at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). She has worked in research policy and digital scholarship across national organisations including for the former Higher Education Funding Council, Jisc and the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). She has overseen national and international programmes that develop digital infrastructure for information and scholarship that have resulted in long-term sustainable services, and developed UK research data policy including open research data concordat.

She is an expert in open science and has been an expert adviser to the European Commission and was the UK representative on the European Open Science Cloud Governance Board and been engaged in the Research Data Alliance from its inception.

Rachel is also the UK representative on the G7 Open Science Working Group and a member of the Expert Group for Plan S, the international initiative seeking full and immediate open access to research publications.

Dr. Şule Şahin is a Senior Lecturer in Actuarial Science in the School for Business and Society at the University of York. Previously, she worked as a Lecturer in the Institute for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics at the University of Liverpool (2017-2021). She is a member of the AFIR-ERM Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis Management Working Party and has been part of the mortality modelling subgroup since January 2022. Her research interests lie in the area of mortality modelling, stochastic investment models for long-term applications, and actuarial compensations for loss of earnings. She serves as one of the co-editors of the open access Springer Actuarial Series book, "Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection”, published in 2021. She is also a fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

Professor Anthony Hollander is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research & Impact and Professor of Stem Cell Biology at the University of Liverpool. He provides strategic leadership for the development of research policy and for ensuring impact of the University’s research programmes in Liverpool and around the world. He is also responsible for commercialisation of research, for developing partnerships with companies and other external stakeholders and for the training of postgraduate research students.

Anthony’s research career has focussed on the development of stem cell therapies for treating diseases of cartilage. His former University of Bristol spin-out company, Azellon Ltd, developed a stem cell treatment for torn knee cartilage and his new University of Liverpool spin-out company, TrophiCell, is developing trophic stem cell therapies for a range of chronic diseases. He was previously part of a team that created the world’s first tissue engineered airway and is former President of the International Cartilage Repair Society, Chair of Utrecht University’s International Scientific and Societal Advisory Board for Life Sciences and Chair of the Russell Group Pro-Vice-Chancellor’s Research Network.

In March 2010 David Prosser became the Executive Director of RLUK, the representative body for the UK and Ireland’s leading research libraries. Before moving to RLUK, he was, from 2002, the founding Director of SPARC Europe, an alliance of over 110 research-led university libraries from 14 European countries advocating new models of scholarly communication. Previously, he spent ten years in science, technical, and medical journal publishing for both Oxford University Press and Elsevier Science. Before becoming a publisher he received a PhD and BSc in Physics from Leeds University, UK.

Georgina Endfield is APVC for the Research Environment and Postgraduate Research and Professor of Environmental History at the University of Liverpool.

In January 2017 Georgina joined the University of Liverpool as APVC for Research and Impact in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and remained in this role until December 2022 when she took on her current APVC position. She has held various roles including Honorary Secretary for Research and Higher Education for the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers, 2008-2014).

Georgina was a full panel member and also an Interdisciplinary Research Advisor for UoA 14 (Geography and Environmental Studies) in REF 2021. She is a member of the Leverhulme Trust Advisory Panel (starting 2023) and regularly participates in funding panels and moderating boards for AHRC, ESRC, NERC and UKRI. She was also a Steering Committee member of the Strategic Priorities Fund (SPF) UK Climate Resilience programme.

Georgina was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2023.

Anthony Cond has led an outstanding team at Liverpool University Press for the past 16 years, during which time LUP has twice been acknowledged as the UK’s academic publisher of the year. He is President-Elect of the Association of University Presses, an organisation representing more than 160 university presses across 17 countries, and has served on the Boards of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and UKSG, and on the Institute of English Studies Advisory Council. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Learned Publishing and founded the University Press Redux conference.

Alison Welsby is Editorial Director and Senior Commissioning Editor at Liverpool University Press. Involved in key decisions at management and Board level, Alison manages an exceptional team of commissioning editors, and is responsible for the books editorial strategy, partnership publishing, LUP’s Digital Collaboration Hub and Open Access books, plus translations and foreign rights. Alison also manages the award-winning Pavilion Poetry series, which is part of an undergraduate work placement with the University of Liverpool, and is passionate about mentoring and career development. Alison commissions books in history and art history, as well as on behalf of partners, and has been working in academic publishing for over twenty-five years.

Martin Wolf leads the University of Liverpool’s Library Open Research Team. This team is responsible for our strategies and services in support of the university’s shift towards the greater use of open research practices, including support for the management of research data, planning and deployment of resources to support open access publishing, and close liaison with other university departments on systems and processes for capturing and monitoring information on research outputs.

Martin has over two decades’ experience of working in research libraries, having worked previously at Cardiff University and the University of Warwick. He is especially interested in helping support positive change in the scholarly publishing environment.

Nicolás is a philosopher by training. He works on ethics, social and political philosophy, and philosophy of law. He studies questions such as 'what distinguishes right from wrong?' 'what makes humans free or oppressed?' and 'who has authority to govern over me and my choices?'

Nicolás is particularly interested in issue related to marginalised groups, children's rights and questions on social justice more generally.

As Director, Matt provides strategic leadership for Libraries, Museums and Galleries (LMG). He is responsible for setting the overarching vision for LMG services, collections, and spaces, and ensuring that these deliver against the ambitions of the University’s Strategy 2031. Matt works to enhance the impact and visibility of LMG’s activities through building partnerships across the university and with national and international partners. He attends several University committees and provides briefings to the University’s senior leadership team in relation to library, information, and heritage issues and policies.

Matt is an advocate for cross-sector collaboration between the cultural, heritage and academic communities. He is a champion for the transformative effect of education and the role of libraries, museums, and galleries as catalysts of change for individuals, communities, institutions, and society.