Evelyn Kathleen Welch MBE (née Samuels; born January 30, 1959) is an American scholar of the Renaissance and Early Modern Period, and the 14th Vice Chancellor of the University of Bristol.
[7] Her current work is on fashion in Renaissance and Early Modern Europe which was funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA).
[9] In 1982, Samuels married Nicholas Russell "Nick" Welch, an advertising copywriter, then creative director with J. Walter Thompson and Collett Dickenson Pearce in London;[3] the couple divorced around 1999.
One group of students occupied the lobby of Beacon House to demand that Welch personally respond to their request that the university end the FST.
[12] Subsequently, the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has confronted Welch on two occasions on her continued backing for the University's use of the test, once at an alumni event in New York,[13] and a second time at a panel event in Bristol which also included University of Birmingham Vice Chancellor Adam Tickell, and the then Labour Party shadow education minister Matt Western.