Beverley Glover

Glover was born on 7 March 1972 in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.[2] She is the daughter of Michael Glover and Margaret Glover (née Smith).[2] She was educated at Perth High School, a comprehensive school in Perth, Scotland.[2] She studied plant and environmental biology at the University of St Andrews, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1993.[2][3] During her undergraduate degree, she spent one summer working at the St Andrews Botanic Garden as a gardener.[3] She then began postgraduate research in plant molecular genetics at the John Innes Centre.[3] In 1997, she completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, awarded by the University of East Anglia.[2] Her doctoral thesis was titled "Cellular differentiation in plants".[1]

Glover began her academic career as a junior research fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge between 1996 and 1999.[2][3][4] In 1999, she was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge.[2][4] From 2001 to 2007, she was additionally the admissions tutor for science at Queens' College.[2] She was promoted to senior lecturer in 2005 and reader in 2010.[2] In July 2013, she was appointed Director of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden and made Professor of Plant Systematics and Evolution.[4]

Glover holds a number of appointments outside her university career. She has been a member of the council of the European society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology since 2010,[2][5] and of the Systematics Association since 2014.[2][6] On 1 February 2015, she was appointed a member of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.[7][8] The appointment is for four years and will end on 31 January 2019.[7]

She is a member of the Editorial Board for Current Biology.[9]

In 2003, Glover married Stuart Nigel Bridge (dec Sep 2020).[2] Together they have two children; a daughter and a son.[2]

In 2010, Glover was awarded the Bicentenary Medal of the Linnean Society. The medal is awarded "in recognition of work done by a biologist under the age of 40 years".[10] In 2010, she was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London (FLS).[2] In January 2011, she was jointly awarded the William Bate Hardy Prize for 2010 by the Cambridge Philosophical Society.[11][12]

• Glover, Beverley J. (2007). Understanding flowers and flowering: an integrated approach (1st ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198565970.
• Glover, Beverley (2014). Understanding flowers and flowering: an integrated approach (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199661596.