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Professor Jane Norman is the President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, a position she has held since January 2025, having previously served as Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor from December 2022. She graduated in Medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1986 and was awarded an MD by the same institution in 1992. Her clinical and academic training took place in Edinburgh and Glasgow, where she held the role of Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow from 2007 to 2008. She later served as Director of the Edinburgh Tommy’s Centre for Maternal and Fetal Health from 2008 to 2019, Vice Principal People and Culture at the University of Edinburgh from 2013 to 2019, and Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Bristol from 2019 to 2022. She was an Honorary Consultant Obstetrician in the NHS in Glasgow from 1995 to 2008 and in Edinburgh from 2008 to 2019.

Professor Norman’s translational research over three decades has focused on factors responsible for the initiation of normal parturition and strategies for the prevention of preterm birth and stillbirth, including large multicentre randomised trials, laboratory and preclinical studies, and analyses of routinely collected data. Her work has informed national and international guidelines from bodies such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the World Health Organisation. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Additional appointments include Non-Executive Director of University Hospitals Bristol and Weston from 2021 to 2024 and membership of the Board of UK Research and Innovation since 2024. She has chaired grant panels for the Wellcome Trust and the National Institute for Health Research and served on the UK Research Excellence Framework panel 1A in 2021. In 2020, she received the Eardly Holland Medal from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.