Education
Tickle was educated at the University of Cambridge graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1967, and received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 1970.
Tickle was educated at the University of Cambridge graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1967, and received her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Glasgow in 1970.
She is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bath. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University, as a lecturer and reader at the Middlesex Hospital Medical School, and (after Middlesex merged with it in 1987) a reader and professor at University College London. She then moved to the University of Dundee in 1998, where she became Foulerton Professor of the Royal Society in 2000, and moved again to the University of Bath in 2007, retaining the Foulerton Professor title.
Tickle"s research in Developmental Biology investigates how single cells, the fertilised egg, gives rise to a new individual during embryogenesis.
Royal Society]
Tickle was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society in 1998, a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2000, a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2001, and a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation in 2001.