Kevin Shakesheff

Kevin Shakesheff FMedSci is a British Medical Biologist. He is Vice-Chancellor of Keele University,^[4] and has served as Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the Open University.^[5]

Kevin Shakesheff FMedSci
Vice Chancellor of Keele University
Incumbent
Assumed office 2025
Pro-Vice Chancellor of Open University
In office 2021–2025
Pro-Vice Chancellor of University of Nottingham
In office 2015–2021
Succeeded by	Zoe Wilson[1]
Personal details
Born	1969[2]
Website	https://about.open.ac.uk/governance-ou/executive-team/pro-vice-chancellor-res
Scientific career
Education	University of Nottingham
Alma mater	University of Nottingham Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Awards	RISE award (EPSRC)[3]
Fields	Regenerative Medicine Biological Therapy

Career

Shakesheff qualified as a Pharmacist in the early 1990s and received a PhD in Advanced Drug Delivery Systems from the University of Nottingham^[6] School of Pharmacy. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT In 1997 Shakesheff returned to the University of Nottingham as an EPSRC Advanced Fellow. He became a Professor in 2002, and in 2015 became the first Pro-Vice Chancellor for Science there.^[5][6] In 2019 he was elected to the Chair of OneNottingham.^[7]

Shakesheff became the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation at the Open University in 2021, and in September 2025 became Vice Chancellor of Keele University.