Wendy Inglis Humphrey

MVM Head of Operations and Planning

Biography

Background

As Head of Operations and Planning for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Dr Wendy Inglis Humphrey is responsible for leading operations for the College Office, supporting the College Registrar with short- and longer-term strategic planning, and working with senior Professional Service and Academic colleagues to lead, plan and implement change projects in support of the College strategic objectives and Strategy 2030.

Wendy is a Biological Sciences graduate from the University of Cambridge and has a PhD in Behavioural Neuroscience from the University of St Andrews. Some of the conclusions from her thesis on the pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus, an outflow system for the striatum, were subsequently published as a review in Progress in Neurobiology with her supervisor Professor Philip Winn: https://doi.org/10.1016/0301-0082(95)00013-L

Following postdoctoral research supported by a Wellcome Trust Prize Travelling Research Fellowship with Professor Kazue Semba at Dalhousie University and Professor Trevor Robbins at the University of Cambridge, Wendy chose to leave hands-on research to pursue a career in the delivery of research and innovation.

Immediately prior to joining the College Office, Wendy was Chief Operating Officer in the Usher Institute for Professor Sir Aziz Sheikh, including strategic operational leadership for the HDR UK Inflammation and Immunity Driver Programme and Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she masterminded all planning and resourcing to ensure that the team of data analysts could deliver vital intelligence quickly to public health surveillance teams. She has also worked in the Institute of Genetics and Cancer as Project Manager for the Scottish Genomes Partnership, a nationally important collaboration between Scottish Universities, NHS Scotland and Genomics England. Earlier in her career, Wendy was a Medical Research Council Programme Manager, Head of UK Partnerships for the innovation foundation Nesta, and also spent several years working in a freelance capacity on Scotland- and UK-wide innovation, economic development and entrepreneurship projects.

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