Dame Julia Mary Goodfellow DBE FMedSci FInstP (née Lansdall; born 1 July 1951) is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Kent,[2][3][4][5] and Chair of the British Science Association.

She began her career as Professor of Biomolecular Science at Birkbeck College in 1995, and was promoted to Vice Master in 1998.

[7] Currently, Goodfellow is a member of the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) advisory board.

[14] Goodfellow was elected Universities UK president from 2015 to 2017, the first woman to hold the role.

In 2015 Goodfellow stated that Universities UK supported staying in the European Union, citing the “economic growth, employable graduates and cutting edge research discoveries” that the EU could provide in the education sector.