April McMahon
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April Mary Scott McMahon FRSE FBA FLSW (born 30 April 1964) is a British academic administrator and linguist, who is Vice President for Teaching, Learning and Students at the University of Manchester.[1]
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April McMahon | |
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Born | April Mary Scott McMahon (1964-04-30) 30 April 1964 (age 60) |
Spouse |
Robert McMahon (m. 1984) |
Children | Three |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Edinburgh (MA Hons, PhD) |
Thesis | Constraining lexical phonology : evidence from English vowels (1989) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Linguistics |
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Having taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield, she moved into academic administration while teaching at the University of Edinburgh. She was vice-chancellor of the Aberystwyth University (2011–2016), then a member of the senior leadership team at the University of Kent before joining the University of Manchester.