Terence Kealey

George Terence Evelyn Kealey was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham,^[1] a private university in Britain. He was appointed Professor of Clinical Biochemistry in 2011. Prior to his tenure at Buckingham, Kealey lectured in clinical biochemistry at the University of Cambridge. He is well known for his outspoken opposition to public funding of science.^[4][5][6]

Education

Kealey was educated at Charterhouse School, completed his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery and Bachelor of Science in biochemistry at St Bartholomew's Hospital, followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Balliol College at the University of Oxford in 1982^[2] for studies on actomyosin in rat parotid and on eccrine sweat glands.

Publications

Kealey occasionally writes op-ed pieces for the Daily Telegraph, and is the author of several books on the economics of science. He has written about how Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain's universities, and schools as Secretary of State for Education and Science from 1970 to 1974,^[7] and how a debate with him in 1985 helped shape her views on the Nobel Prize and the role of the state in the sponsorship of science.^[8] He cites the economic study of the business of science by Angus Maddison here, as well as a 2003 survey entitled The Sources of Economic Growth in OECD Countries, which found that only privately funded research stimulated economic growth in the world’s 21 leading industrialised countries between 1971 and 1998. However, this theory has been challenged by a number of well-regarded academic studies ^[9]

• Terence Kealey (1996). The economic laws of scientific research. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 0-312-17306-7. 
• Terence Kealey (2008). Sex, science and profits. London: William Heinemann. ISBN 0-434-00824-9. 

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