Gillian Slater

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Gillian Lesley Slater (née Filtness) is a British mathematician and academic administrator who served as vice chancellor of Bournemouth University from 1994 until her retirement in 2005. She studied mathematics at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, and helped run the Oxford University Liberal Democrats in 1969. She earned a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 1973, with a thesis on Some Topics in Functional–Differential Equations, supervised by John Bryce McLeod. Slater began her career teaching mathematics at South Bank Polytechnic (now London South Bank University) and Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University). She moved into university leadership as dean of science and technology at Manchester Polytechnic, which later became Manchester Metropolitan University, and then as pro-vice-chancellor there. In 1994 she became Bournemouth University’s vice chancellor, succeeding Bernard MacManus. In 2004 she faced government pressure for opposing differential tuition fees and retired the following year, with Paul Curran succeeding her. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA).