Appointed 2025

Sue Clegg is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Research at Leeds Beckett University. She was a Mellon Visiting Scholar at the University of Cape Town and in receipt of the Vice Chancellor’s award at University of the Western Cape. She has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Technology Sydney and at the University of Newcastle (NSW) and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Aukland.

Her research draws on critical realism and feminist theory and she has worked on the significance of theorising powerful knowledge in higher education and the implications for theorising diversity. She was Editor of Teaching in Higher Education and her roles in the Society for Research into Higher Education included serving as a Council member and as Chair of the Publications Committee. She is honoured to be a Fellow of the Society.