Rate My Professor Jane Norman

Professor Norman’s translational research over three decades has focused on factors responsible for the initiation of normal parturition and strategies for the prevention of preterm birth and stillbirth, including large multicentre randomised trials, laboratory and preclinical studies, and analyses of routinely collected data. Her work has informed national and international guidelines from bodies such as the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and the World Health Organisation. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Additional appointments include Non-Executive Director of University Hospitals Bristol and Weston from 2021 to 2024 and membership of the Board of UK Research and Innovation since 2024. She has chaired grant panels for the Wellcome Trust and the National Institute for Health Research and served on the UK Research Excellence Framework panel 1A in 2021. In 2020, she received the Eardly Holland Medal from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.