Professor Inke Nathke

Professor Inke Näthke is Associate Dean for Professional Culture in the School of Life Sciences, a role she has held since 2016, when the position was first established. She was the first and only Associate Dean with this role in the University at the time. All other schools are now following this example and are recruiting senior staff into similar roles. Overall responsibilities are to enhance the Research Culture and work with others across the University to share best practice, oversee career development for all staff, lead on all aspects of Equality, Diversity & Inclusion, and research integrity, act as Deputy for Dean of School. From March 2020 until December 2021, Inke was Interim Dean of the School of Life Sciences.

Inke is Professor of Epithelial Biology. She was awarded her PhD from the University of California, San Francisco in 1991 and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. In 1998, Inke moved to Dundee and established her own research lab in the Division of Cell and Developmental Biology. She has acted as deputy head of division for two periods (2005 – 2010, 2015 – 2019).

Inke is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Current University Roles:

• Chair, Research Governance and Policy Subcommittee, University of Dundee, December 2021 – present)
• Chair, Research Integrity Group, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, 2016 – 2020, 2022– present - the research Integrity group in the school created processes for investigating integrity breaches, provides training, and handles allegations of misconduct. While Interim Dean, she had to relinquish this role to avoid conflict of interest.
• Research Integrity Lead, University of Dundee, 2016 – 2020, 2022 – present – this group brings together all research integrity lead in all schools to share best practice and to support and help each other (relinquished while Interim Dean)
• Chair, SLS Equality, Diversity & Inclusion committee, 2018 – present
• Chair, School Research Ethics Committee (2016 – present)
• Director, Pre-tenure mentoring programme, (2015 – present)
• Member, Athena SWAN Steering and executive group, University of Dundee (2013 – present, Chair since October 2021)

Current External Roles:

• Trustee, UK RIO (2022 – present) – the trustees provide the formal governance of UK RIO, an “independent charity, that offers support to the public, researchers, and organisations to further good practice in academic, scientific and medical research”
• Co-Chair & founding member, Scottish Research Integrity Network (2019 – present) – the network combines most institutions in Scotland. It meets regularly to share best practice, training, and discuss emerging topics.  It also created a network of colleagues willing to help with advice to other institutions.
• Member, EPSRC Panel of Experts, (2016 – present)