and Ph.D.[2] Gummett was Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales from 2004 to 2012.
The resulting plan led to a series of high-profile mergers of higher education institutions in Wales.
[4][5][6] Philip Gummett served as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Director of the PREST (Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology) institute at the University of Manchester.
[1][2][4] Gummett’s best known academic work is the monograph Scientists in Whitehall (Manchester University Press, 1980).
[7] Professor Gummett was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to Higher Education in Wales.