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Becky Shipley appointed as Chief Research Officer and AHSC Director

9 February 2024
Becky will oversee the development of our partnership work in research and early phase innovation.

We are pleased to share that Prof Becky Shipley, OBE, will be joining us in April as our Chief Research Officer and AHSC Director.

Becky will lead our partnership strategy for advancing our research and early innovation capabilities and connect our innovations to our priority healthcare areas.

With a strong background in mathematics and engineering, Becky went on to become Director of the UCL Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Vice Dean (Health) for the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. To add to this, she is Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Nerve Engineering – the first centre in the UK to bring together engineering and physical sciences with the life and clinical sciences, and Co-Director of CHIMERA – research that brings together mathematics, statistics, engineering and computational sciences to develop new data-driven models of human physiology, to inform clinical design making in intensive care. 

Becky was awarded an OBE in 2021 for her role during the COVID-19 pandemic in designing and manufacturing non-invasive breathing aids for people with the disease. These breathing aids, known as UCL-Ventura, have been deployed to over 130 NHS hospitals to treat patients across 30 countries.

We are very excited to be working so closely with Becky given her expertise in innovation and the impacts these have had on healthcare to date. Dr Chris Laing, Chief Executive Officer at UCLPartners said:

I am beyond pleased that Becky is joining the UCLPartners executive team as Chief Research Officer and AHSC Director. Becky will be overseeing how we develop our research and early innovation capability as a partnership and also how we link specific health and care challenges to discovery and invention as part of our innovation model. She brings a huge track record in collaboration and delivery as well as great expertise in health technology, digital, data and of course engineering. I’m really excited to see what she will achieve in this role.

On her appointment, Becky said:

I am delighted to be joining the team at UCLPartners. I look forward to working across our partnership to drive research and innovations that will have meaningful benefit for people across North London and Essex.