Janet Finch
Dame Janet Finch Keele University Students' Union , November 2003. | |
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Born | Janet Valerie Finch 13 February 1946 |
Occupation(s) | British sociologist, academic and educational administrator |
Dame Janet Valerie Finch
Biography
Finch was educated at
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.[1]
At Keele, she has overseen substantial alterations of the University and the increasing development of a private Science and Business Park. She attracted controversy[4][5] in February 2007, when it was announced that she would receive a pay raise of 31.7%, the largest raise for any Vice-Chancellor in England that year.[citation needed]
In a statement given to the THES, the university responded that the salary awarded would be frozen for a three-year term, and was awarded following comparisons with other institutions, and taking into account Finch's "outstanding performance during a period of cultural and procedural change and development".[6] She retired from her position in 2010, having served fifteen years as Keele's Vice-Chancellor. She returned the following year to be made a Doctor of Letters.[7]
Finch is one of four main panel chairs in the
Honours
Janet Finch was named a
Selected works
- Married to the Job: Wives' Incorporation in Men's Work (Allen and Unwin, 1983)[1]
- Education as Social Policy (Longman, 1984)[1]
- Research and Policy: the Uses of Qualitative Methods in Social and Educational Research (Falmer Press, 1986)[1]
- Family Obligations and Social Change (Polity Press, 1989)[1]
- Negotiating Family Responsibilities (with J Mason; Routledge, 1993)[1]
- Wills, Inheritance and Families (with L Hayes, J Mason and L Wallis; Polity Press, 1996)[1]
- Passing On: Kinship and Inheritance in England (with J Mason; Routledge, 2000)[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "Janet Finch". Research Institute for Life Course Studies, Keele University. Archived from the original on 31 August 2009. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
- ^ a b Addelman, Mike (20 July 2010). "Professor Dame Janet Finch joins Manchester". University of Manchester. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ^ FINCH, Dame Janet (Valerie), Who's Who 2012, A & C Black, 2012; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2011; online edn, Nov 2011 accessed 27 October 2012
- ^ "Petition on university pay deal". BBC News. 1 March 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
- ^ Ashley, Dan (22 February 2007). "Vice-chancellors' pay needs proper scrutiny says lecturers' union". University and College Union. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
- ^ Attwood, Rebecca (23 February 2007). "Just what did they do to merit a rise?". The Times Higher Education Supplement. Retrieved 24 July 2008.
- ^ McInnes, Kathie (4 June 2011). "Stoke City chairman Peter Coates earns honorary degree". The Sentinel. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
- ^ HEFCE announcement of panel chairs accessed 16 July 2010
- ^ Curtis, Polly (7 July 2011). "Top candidate to head UK Statistics Authority withdraws". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 July 2011.
- ^ "Dame Janet Finch statement". Cabinet Office. 6 July 2011. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ "Finch Report". Research Information Network. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017.
- ^ "Five key moments in the Open Access movement in the last ten years". OUPblog. Oxford University Press. 2014.
2012 – The 'Finch' Report
- London Gazette. 14 June 2008. p. 6. Retrieved 2 October 2009.
External links
- Date of birth per Debrett's
- Citation presented at the dinner (19/7/10) to mark Professor Dame Janet Finch's retirement from Keele University
- Janet Finch at "Pioneers of Qualitative Research" from the Economic and Social Data Service