Background
Follett, Brian Keith was born on February 22, 1939 in Bournemouth, United Kingdom.
academic administrator educator Pharmacologist
Follett, Brian Keith was born on February 22, 1939 in Bournemouth, United Kingdom.
Bachelor of Science in Biological Chemistry, University Bristol, England, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology, University Bristol, England, 1964. Doctor of Science, University Wales, 1975.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), University Wales, 1992.
The TDA is responsible for recruiting to the teaching profession (ca 40,000 people per annum), for the training of the wider workforce in schools and for the modernisation (change management) of schools and implementation of such policies as "extended schools". He currently continues to chair the national Science Technology Engineering And Mathematics Advisory Forum that is involved in the United Kingdom government"s Science Technology Engineering And Mathematics agenda in schools and universities. He is a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company,and chairs their "community forum" along with the committee responsible for the Shakespeare Birthday Weekend celebrations.
He is President of the Stratford Society and also a governor of the Girl"s School.
He is a non-stipendiary Professor in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford and teaches animal physiology. Follett was formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick from 1993 to 2001 and Professor of Zoology at the University of Bristol from 1978 until 1993.
He chaired the United Kingdom"s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) from 2000 until 2007. He also chaired a government inquiry into the 2001 United Kingdom foot and mouth crisis entitled The Royal Society Inquiry into Infectious Diseases in Livestock.
This inquiry examined the scientific aspects of the crisis, for instance the efficacy of vaccinations, the way the virus spreads and so on, chaired and/or wrote various other government reports and was President of The Association for Science Education (American Society of Echocardiography) from 1997-1998.
Research
Follett"s research interests are in the reproductive biology of higher vertebrates, and in particular, seasonal breeding in birds and mammals. and awards
1944-1957 - School education in Bournemouth, England
1960 - Bachelor of Science with 1st class hons in Biochemistry (called Biological Chemistry at that time) from University of Bristol
1964 - Doctor of Philosophy in Pharmacology from the University of Bristol
1965-1969 Lecturer in Zoology, University of Leeds
1969-1978 Lecturer, then Reader and then Professor - University of Wales, Bangor
1978-1993 - Professor of Zoology and Head of Department at University of Bristol
15 March 1984 - Federal Reserve System
1987-1993 - Biological Secretary, The Royal Society
1992 - Knighted for services to science
1993 to 2001 - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick
2000-2007 - Chairman of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
2003-2009 - Chairman of the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA)
2006- - Chair of the Science Technology Engineering And Mathematics Advisory Forum
Director for many years of the AFRC"s Research Group on Photoperiodism and Reproduction. Published ca. 400 papers. Chaired a number of government enquiries including:
two on university libraries (1993 and 2003, both for HEFCE and the other United Kingdom Funding Councils)
one for the Economic and Social Research Council and the British Academy on the future of funding in the humanities and social sciences (1992)
and one on the consequences of the Royal Liverpool Children"s Hospital Inquiry in relation to academic and clinical careers in medicine (2001).
Trustee British Museum Natural History. Board directors Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership, since 1993. Fellow Royal Society (biological secretary, vice president 1987-1993).
Married Deb Booth, April 5, 1961. Children: Karen, Richard.