About our Chair

Professor Claire Ozanne, Vice-Chancellor and Rector of Liverpool Hope University

Professor Claire Ozanne has been Vice-Chancellor and Rector of Liverpool Hope University since 2023.

A Professor of Ecology, Claire gained her DPhil from Oxford University. Claire’s work focuses on habitats influenced by human activities and she has led multidisciplinary projects in the UK, Australia, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Guyana.

Claire has widely published in areas including the impact of forest resource use on biodiversity; the effect of seasonality and spatial patterns on canopy insect communities and led the publication of a seminal paper in Science: Biodiversity Meets the Atmosphere.

Professor Ozanne was formerly the Deputy Director and Provost at SOAS University of London; and Vice Provost at the University of Roehampton. In 2017, Claire was seconded for two years to the post of Principal of Heythrop College, University of London.

She is a Principal Fellow of the HEA and has served on The British Academy Strategic Committee for Languages in Higher Education, and has experience as a QAA reviewer.