[5] In 2004 she was invited as a guest of HM the Queen to a luncheon at Buckingham Palace for the 'top 180 female achievers in the country'.
[8] Randle entered Cardiff University at the age of 27 to study chemistry, and found that the metallurgy module sparked her interest in materials.
She then did a PhD and eventually was awarded a Royal Society Research Fellowship which took her to Swansea University in 1992.
In 1999, she was made a professor in the Department of Metals Engineering,[9] working within the field of microstructure of materials at Swansea University.
Randle left school when was sixteen, got married at eighteen and had two children by the age of twenty.