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Professor Fiona Cownie

Professor Fiona Cownie is Deputy Chair of Governors at De Montfort University in Leicester and Professor of Law Emerita at Keele University, where she was Pro Vice Chancellor (Education and Student Experience) from 2014 - 2017.
Job Title
Deputy Chair of Governors

Under her leadership, Keele obtained a Gold award in the Teaching Excellence Framework and was rated top in the country for overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey for three of her four years in post, as well as being named University of the Year for Student Experience in The Times / Sunday Times University Guide in 2017.

Professor Cownie is an expert in legal education, and has published widely in the area. She is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Society of Arts. She is the only person to date to be awarded both the Socio-Legal Studies Association Prize for Contribution to the Socio-Legal Community and the Annual Recognition Award of the Association of Law Teachers.