MRC Council member
Professor Kim Graham is a member of the Medical Research Council (MRC) Council. She is Provost of the University of Edinburgh where she acts as the Chief Academic Officer of the University, providing leadership, direction and strategic evaluation of all academic matters. She is also the Senior Responsible Officer for the Data-Driven Innovation Initiative for the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal.
Prior to this role, Professor Graham was Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research, Innovation and Enterprise at Cardiff University, where she led Cardiff’s preparations for the Research Excellence Framework 2021, as well as Cardiff’s innovation, enterprise and commercialisation activities.
She is committed to promotion of a positive and inclusive culture in higher education, as well as ensuring that reward processes recognise teamwork, open research, citizenship and reproducibility.
Professor Graham obtained her first degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, and her PhD in cognitive neuropsychology from the University of Cambridge. She moved to Cardiff University in 2007, where she was based at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre. Here, her research group applied structural and functional neuroimaging, including ultra-high field magnetic resonance imaging, to study the neurocognitive networks affected in dementia.
Professor Graham moved to the University of Edinburgh in 2022. She is author of an award-winning book, ‘The Evolution of Memory Systems’ and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Professor Graham is currently a non-executive Director of the University of Edinburgh Development Trust and Smart Data Foundry. She is also a member of the Universities Scotland Funding Policy Group. She was previously a member of the Higher Education Funding Council Wales Research Wales Committee, and Wales Science and Innovation Advisory Council.
Last updated: 22 May 2025