Joan Stringer

Dame Joan Kathleen Stringer, DBE, FRSE, FRSA (born 12 May 1948) is a British political scientist and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University.

Dame Joan Stringer
Former Principal of Edinburgh Napier University
Incumbent
Assumed office January 2003
Preceded by	John Mavor
Personal details
Born	Joan Kathleen Stringer (1948-05-12) 12 May 1948
Residence	Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Alma mater	Keele University
Profession	Public administrator
Salary	£176,000 (2008)[1]

Biography

Education

Stringer attended Portland House High School, Stoke-on-Trent, and Stoke-on-Trent College of Art.[2] She then went to Keele University, where she took a B.A. degree with joint honours in History and Politics and completed a Ph.D degree in Politics in 1986.[2]

Career

From 1980-88, she worked at Robert Gordon's Institute of Technology, Aberdeen as a lecturer in Public Administration, becoming in 1988 the Head of the School of Public Administration and Law, and served as Vice-Principal from 1991-96.[2] In 1996, she was named Principal and Vice-Patron of Queen Margaret College (QMUC) in Edinburgh.[2] Her time at the College saw much expansion, and in 1998, the College was awarded full degree-awarding powers, changing its name in 1999 to Queen Margaret University College (QMUC). From 2001-07, she was convener of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.

Stringer left Queen Margaret University College in 2003 to be appointed Principal/Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University.[2] the first woman to be leader of a Scottish university.[3][4]

In 2010-11, Professor Stringer oversaw a programme of redundancies at Edinburgh Napier University which resulted in 89 staff taking voluntary severance and a further anticipated 100 staff being dismissed on the grounds of compulsory redundancy.[5][6]

Professor Stringer held a number of appointments outside of academia, including Chair of the Northern Ireland Equality Commission Working Group from 1998–1999 Lay Member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland from 2002–07, and Senior Independent Director of the Institute of Directors, and is Chair of Education UK Scotland.[7]

Honours

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2001, and elevated to Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.[8] [9] In 2001 she was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.[10]

References

1. "Who they are … and what they earn". The Glasgow Herald. Newsquest. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
2. "Stringer, Prof. Joan Kathleen". Who's Who. Oxford University Press. December 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
3. "Scotland's first female principal appointed at Napier". The Guardian. London. 2 May 2002. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
4. Didcock, Barry (28 September 2003). "A Woman Of Principal". The Sunday Herald. Archived from the original on 22 May 2008. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
5. "Redundancies at Edinburgh Napier University". Retrieved 23 February 2011.
6. "Redundancies at Edinburgh Napier University website". Retrieved 23 February 2011.
7. "This Dame's got a real passion for education". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 25 January 2019.
8. "No. 59090". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2009. p. 7.
9. "Knighthoods for university heads". BBC News Online. BBC News. 12 June 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2009.
10. "Professor Dame Joan Kathleen Stringer FRSE - The Royal Society of Edinburgh". The Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 11 December 2017.

External links

• British Council website

Academic offices
Preceded by John Mavor	Principal of Edinburgh Napier University 2003–2013	Succeeded by Andrea Nolan