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Gillian Lesley Slater (née Filtness) is a retired British mathematician and academic administrator, the former
vice chancellor A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system. In most Commonwealth and former Commonwealth nations, the chancellor is ...
of
Bournemouth University Bournemouth University is a public university in Bournemouth, England, with its main campus situated in neighbouring Poole. The university was founded in 1992; however, the origins of its predecessor date back to the early 1900s. The univer ...
.


Education

Slater read mathematics in
St Hugh's College, Oxford St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a women's college, and accepte ...
, where she served as secretary of the Oxford University Liberal Democrats in 1969. She completed a DPhil at the
University of Oxford , mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor ...
in 1973, with the dissertation ''Some Topics in Functional–Differential Equations'' supervised by
John Bryce McLeod John Bryce McLeod, (23 December 1929 – 20 August 2014) was a British mathematician, who worked on linear and nonlinear partial and ordinary differential equations. Life and education McLeod was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 23 December 1929. ...
.


Career

Slater became a mathematics instructor at South Bank Polytechnic (now London South Bank University) and at Sheffield City Polytechnic (now
Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) is a public research university in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. The university is based on two sites; the City Campus is located in the city centre near Sheffield railway station, while the Collegiate Cr ...
). She moved into academic administration as dean of science and technology at Manchester Polytechnic, and then after it became Manchester Metropolitan University, as pro-vice-chancellor. Her next step was to become vice chancellor of
Bournemouth University Bournemouth University is a public university in Bournemouth, England, with its main campus situated in neighbouring Poole. The university was founded in 1992; however, the origins of its predecessor date back to the early 1900s. The univer ...
, in 1994, succeeding the university's first vice chancellor, Bernard MacManus. She came under pressure from the UK's Labour government in 2004 for taking a stand against the government's push to institute differential fees for different universities, and retired in 2005, replaced as vice chancellor by atmospheric scientist Paul Curran.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Slater, Gillian Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British mathematicians British women mathematicians Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford Academics of London South Bank University Academics of Sheffield Hallam University Academics of Manchester Metropolitan University Academics of Bournemouth University Fellows of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications