Joanna Price

As Head of the University of Bristol’s Veterinary School she was a senior contributor to the biomedical effort of a large multi-faculty University, as she has been a junior one as a research fellow at UCL. At RAU, Bristol, and at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), London (where she was Head of a Department), Joanna was responsible for delivering substantive programmes of change.



Immediately after qualifying Joanna had a number of clinical veterinary jobs both in the UK and abroad. She then moved into bio-medical research as a PhD student at the University of Sheffield investigating the mechanisms by which deer antlers regenerate, the only major mammalian organs to do so. This work continued at UCL and the RVC. Unfortunately the funding opportunities for research on deer were not great and so her personal research migrated to address the mechanisms by which bone adapts to mechanical loading. The goal here being to develop treatment and prevention strategies for skeletal fragility as in human osteoporosis. Joanna remains research engaged, but not directly active. She was a member of the 2021 REF panel for UoA 6, is also a member of BBSRC Council and the UKRI Building a Greener Future Advisory Board, and have recently supported the Agricultural Universities Council in developing and delivering a research strategy.



Joanna has Board level experience in a range of organisations. Her non-executive appointments reflect her interest in HE governance and leadership, the scientific and educational contribution required from universities and the role of resilient agriculture in the climate change agenda. Joanna is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the University College of Osteopathy (UCO); Council member of the Dyson Institute for Engineering and Technology and Cranfield University; Trustee of The Royal Agricultural Society of England and the Bristol Zoological Society. She has been a Director of UCEA (Guild HE representative); a Director of Landex (Land Based Colleges and Universities Aspiring to Excellence); a founding member of the Veterinary Schools Council and Chair of their Research Committee and a Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Schools Council.



Joanna’s leadership style is authentic, engaging and inclusive. She is a confident communicator able to engage effectively at all levels from the operational to the conceptual and to clearly synthesise and summarise complex information. She can operate effectively at strategic and operational levels across operational boundaries. Joanna is comfortable with risk management and decision making as every veterinarian must be! And has the entrepreneurial mind-set, commercial appetite and sound financial experience derived from running complex businesses in an academic setting.