Rosemary Deem#
| Membership Number: | 6756 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/en/persons/rosemary-deem |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-3081-7225 |
| Twitter: | @rosemdee |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemary-deem-53912429 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 - present Emerita Professor of Higher Education Management; Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2020 - 2023 Doctoral School Senior Research Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2009 - 2020 Professor of Higher Education Management, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2019 - 2020 Doctoral School Director (Quality, Enhancement, Inclusion), Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2014 - 2019 Dean of the Doctoral School, Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2017 - 2019 Vice Principal (Teaching Innovation; Equality and Diversity) Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2011 - 2017 Vice Principal (Education), Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2009 - 2011 Dean of History and Social Sciences Royal Holloway, University of London
- 2007 - 2009 Research Director, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol
- 2001 - 2009 Professor of Education, Graduate School of Education, the University of Bristol
Fields of Scholarship
- Public policy and its effects on management & leadership in public service organisations
- Sociology of leisure and lifestyles
- Qualitative methods
- Higher education quality and equality
- Equality and diversity in educational organizations
- Governance
- Relationship between teaching and research
- Higher education leadership
- Management
Honours and Awards
- 2015-2018 - first woman to chair the UK Council for Graduate Education
- 2014 Awarded an honorary DLitt for the contribution to the sociology of higher education by Leicester University in summer 2014
- 2013 Appointed Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to Higher Education & Social Science in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list
- 2009 Awarded Honorary Fellowship of the Society for Research into Higher Education
- 2006 Elected as an academician (now Fellow) of the UK Academy of Social Sciences
- The UK Academy of Social Sciences
- 2009 - 2011 Member of Communications Sub-Committee
- 2019 - 2020 Member of Publications Committee
- 2002 onwards Entry in Who’s Who
- 1970 Awarded Free Press of Glencoe prize as best Leicester University BA (Social Sciences) Sociology graduate of the year
