Research Excellence Board

The remit of the Research Excellence Board is to support Schools and to nurture and progress their research excellence on an ongoing basis.

The Board has overarching responsibility for planning, managing and driving all aspects of the University’s strategy, preparations and submissions to future research assessment exercises. The Board will report to the Principal through the Principal’s Office meetings.

For more information about REF, visit the Research environment webpages. If you have any queries regarding the REF process at the University of St Andrews, please contact ris@st-andrews.ac.uk.

Members

Members of the Research Excellence Board: 

• Professor Tom Brown (Vice-Principal (Research, Collections and Innovation) and School of Physics and Astronomy) Chair
• Professor Sean Allan (Professor of German)
• Professor Kirstie Ball (Professor of Management)
• Professor David Crossman (Dean of Medicine)
• Professor Ineke De Moortel (Master of the United College and Professor of Applied Mathematics)
• Professor Aileen Fyfe (Professor of Modern History)
• Professor Colin Kidd (Professor of Modern History)
• Professor Jason Konig (Professor of Classics)
• Professor Hill Kulu (Professor of Human Geography and Demography)
• Professor Alexander Long (School of Classics)
• Professor Anne Magurran (School of Biology)
• Professor Gareth Miles (Professor of Neuroscience)
• Professor Frank Gunn-Moore (School of Biology)
• Professor Catherine O'Leary (Professor of Spanish)
• Professor Frank Sullivan (School of Medicine)
• Professor Alan Sutherland (Professor of Economics)
• Professor Graham Turnbull (School of Physics and Astronomy)
• Professor Malcolm White (School of Biology)

Secretariat:

• Catherine Burns
• Dr Carlos Galan-Diaz
• Jennifer Pritchard