April McMahon


April Mary Scott McMahon is a British linguist and Vice President for Teaching, Learning and Students at the University of Manchester.

Early life and education

McMahon was born on 30 April 1964. She was educated at the University of Edinburgh where she was awarded a PhD in 1989 on phonology.

Career

Previously, McMahon served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Kent. She was also Forbes Professor of English Language at the University of Edinburgh from 2005 to 2011, and Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University from 2011 to 2016 She was also a lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Her salary at Aberystwyth was £237,000 and she left with an extra payment of £102,000. Her publications as first author or co-author / editor include:
In 2003, McMahon was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2005, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. In 2012, she was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Personal life

McMahon married Robert McMahon in 1984 and has two sons and one daughter.