Professor Petra Wend

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was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh’s Queen Margaret University between 2009 and 2019.

Academic life

Petra Wend studied Italian and French Language and Education at the

University of Münster The University of Münster (german: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, WWU) is a public university, public research university located in the city of Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. With more than 43,000 students and over ...

in Germany. In 1990 she completed a PhD in Italian Language and Literature at

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

. The title of her thesis was "The Female Voice: Lyrical Expression in the Writings of five Italian Renaissance Poets". Petra Wend joined Queen Margaret University in 2009 as Principal and Vice-Chancellor and retired in 2019. Prior to joining Queen Margaret University she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and Deputy Chief Executive at

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. During her time at Queen Margaret University, Petra Wend served as Vice-Convener of Universities Scotland in 2012–2014 and 2014–2016. In 2015 she was appointed by the Scottish Government as a member of the Commission for Widening Access chaired by Dame Ruth Silver. Petra Wend was then appointed by Universities Scotland in 2017 to lead the work stream on Bridging Programmes. In 2020 Petra Wend was appointed as an external expert to the programme board for the

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’s review of Further Education and Higher Education.

Recognition and honours

* Petra Wend was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015. * She was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2021 New Year Honours.

References

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