CBE, PhD, DSc, AcSS

Appointed Governor in December 2010.

Patricia Broadfoot recently retired as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Gloucestershire.

Prior to moving to Cheltenham, she was pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Bristol where she had previously also held the positions of Head of the Graduate School of Education and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.  She has published widely in the field of education and learning and advised both national and international Governments on educational policy and examination reform. 

She was a member of the Economic and Social Research Council from 2001 to 2006 and currently chairs the Governing Board of the ESRC’s ‘UK Household Longitudinal Survey.’

She is a Board member of the LloydsTSB Foundation and a former Trustee of the St Monica Care Trust in Bristol.  From 2009-10 she was a Commissioner on the Marmot Commission on Health Inequalities.  She is a Lay Canon of Gloucester Cathedral.

Patricia Broadfoot holds a BA in Sociology from Leeds University; an M.Ed from Edinburgh University; a PhD from the Open University and a D.SC and honorary LL.D from the University of Bristol.  She is a Founding Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences (AcSS).

She was awarded a CBE for services to Social Science in 2006.

She currently sits on the Audit Committee and the Environmental Sustainability Strategy Group.