Professor Sallie Lamb

Professor Sallie Lamb is the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean for the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences.

Sallie is an internationally recognised scholar in ageing, disability and rehabilitation. She is also an experienced methodologist in the area of clinical trials and high quality evaluation of health care practice.

She was previously the Director of the Centre for Statistics in Medicine, Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit and Centre for Rehabilitation Research at the University of Oxford. In 2020 Sallie served as a panel member and inter-disciplinary expert for the Higher Education Funding Council of England Research Excellence Framework (REF) assessment phase a and is resuming this role for REF 2029. She is a member of the Health Sciences Panel for the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) in 2026. She has served as a Chair of the Health Technology Assessment Board and other senior roles in National Institute of Health Research. Sallie is a Non-Executive Director and Trustee of the Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and is a Trustee of the Versus Arthritis charity.

She is Director of the NIHR Exeter Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) https://www.exeterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/ and Deputy Director of the NIHR National School for Primary Care and is Primary Investigator on a number of significant NIHR funded research projects. She is theme lead for the rehabilitation strand of the NIHR Exeter BRC's research portfolio, which includes research on Multiple Long Term Conditions (MLTC).

Sallie co-leads INTERSECT: Interdisciplinary Translational Rehabilitation Research Centre. The Centre brings together research in rehabilitation, aging, orthopaedics, sport science and human performance using the cutting-edge facilities that Exeter has invested in to research human movement.

Sallie has a strong commitment to improving the lives of older people through excellent research that answers difficult questions and can inform policy making and commissioning. She works to ensure research is translated into practice and to drive up the quality of methods and reporting used in medical research. Sallie has mentored and supervised many early career scientists, and is a strong advocate for team working and gender equality in the work place.