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Associate Dean (Communications and External Affairs), Professor Terry Brown
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Associate Dean (Communication and External Affairs), Professor Terry Brown
Professor Terry Brown Professor Terry Brown graduated from Queen Elizabeth College, London with a BSc Hons in Microbiology in 1974, and from University College London with a PhD in 1977.He joined UMIST as a postdoctoral researcher in 1981, and has remained in Manchester ever since, becoming the UK's first Professor of Biomolecular Archaeology in 2000.
He was Head of UMIST's Biomolecular Sciences during the two years leading up to the formation of The University of Manchester, and was a member of various Project Unity committee and working groups.
He is currently a member of the NERC Peer Review College and Science-Based Archaeology Strategy Group, and is a past member of NERC Science and Technology Board and Science Innovation Strategy Board.He has considerable experience on grants and fellowships committees, and has recently chaired the NERC Services Review Group.
Professor Brown has been active in biomolecular archaeology since 1989 with grants totalling more than £2 million for work on the origins and spread of agriculture, and for studies of kinship and palaeodisease in the Bronze Age.
Terry has a strong commitment to the public understanding of science and has given talks to community groups such as Women's Institutes.