AHRC Council
The AHRC Council is responsible for the overall strategic direction and financial management of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). There are sixteen members of the AHRC Council, listed alphabetically below by first name. See also the Members of Council Registers of Interest (PDF, 84KB).
- Professor Andrew Thompson
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Professor Andrew Thompson is the Chief Accounting Officer of the Arts and Humanities Research Council
- Professor Hagan Bayley
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Professor Hagan Bayley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford
- Professor Dame Janet Beer
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Professor Dame Janet Beer is the Vice Chancellor of the University of Liverpool
- Professor Sir Drummond Bone
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Professor Sir Drummond Bone is the Senior Independent Member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Chair the Wordsworth Trust.
- Professor Sir David Eastwood
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Professor Sir David Eastwood is the Vice Chancellor and Principal of the University of Birmingham
- Professor Anthony Lilley
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Professor Anthony Lilley is the CEO & Chief Creative Officer of Magic Lantern Productions Ltd and Professor of Creative Industries at Ulster University
- Dame Judith Macgregor
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Dame Judith Macgregor DCMG LVO is former British High Commissioner to South Africa, Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Professor Fiona Macpherson
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Professor Fiona Macpherson is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow
- Catherine Mallyon
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Ms Catherine Mallyon is the Executive Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company
- Professor Tom Rodden
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Professor Tom Rodden has been appointed as the Chief Scientific Adviser for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and begins this role in January 2019.
- Professor Greg Walker
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Professor Greg Walker is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh
- Professor Chris Wickham
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Professor Chris Wickham is the Chichele Professor of Medieval History emeritus at the University of Oxford and is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham