Medicine, Science and Academia

Professor Gareth Lloyd Williams (Kerrison 1946-1954)

He established an international reputation for analysis of the impact of government funding on universities.  His research with future Education Minister, Tessa Blackstone, for the Leverholm Trust and the Society for Research into Higher Education resulted in Response to Adversity: Higher Education in a harsh climate. (1983).  As Professional of Educational Administration, University of London, he was Founding Director, Centre of Higher Education Studies. He was acclaimed as an “inspirational teacher”, and as someone who had “made a huge contribution to educational research and policy analysis”.