Judith Eleri Phillips OBE (born 7 February 1959) is a Welsh gerontologist. She has been Professor of Gerontology and Social Work at Swansea University since 2004.
Early life and Career.
She was educated at Pontypridd Girls' Grammar School, Aberystwyth University (BA, 1980), Jesus College, Oxford (MSc, 1983) and the University of East Anglia (PhD, 1989). She was a Lecturer in Social Work at the University of East Anglia from 1989 to 1993, and Professor of Social Gerontology at Keele University from 2001 to 2004. She has been Scientific Director of the Centre for Innovative Ageing and Director of the Research Institute for Applied Social Science at Swansea University since 2009.
She was made an OBE in 2013. She was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2024.
References
- "Professor Judith Phillips". Swansea University. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
- ‘PHILLIPS, Prof. Judith Eleri’, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2015
- "Healthy ageing expert and Stirling professor elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh | About". University of Stirling. 2024-04-08. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- 1959 births
- Living people
- Alumni of Aberystwyth University
- Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford
- Alumni of the University of East Anglia
- Academics of the University of East Anglia
- Academics of Keele University
- Academics of Swansea University
- Officers of the Order of the British Empire
- Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales
- British gerontologists
- 21st-century British social scientists
- 21st-century British women scientists
- Women gerontologists
- British women sociologists
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh