Education Stringer attended Portland House High School,
Stoke-on-Trent, and
Stoke-on-Trent College of Art. She then went to
Keele University, where she took a
B.A. degree with joint honours in History and Politics and completed a
Ph.D degree in Politics in 1986. In 2009, Stringer oversaw Napier University's change of name to Edinburgh Napier University in a bid to raise the institution's profile. In 2010–11, Professor Stringer oversaw a programme of redundancies at Edinburgh Napier University which resulted in 89 staff taking voluntary severance and a further anticipated 100 staff being dismissed on the grounds of compulsory redundancy. Stringer has held a number of appointments outside of academia, including Chair of the Northern Ireland Equality Commission Working Group from 1998 to 1999, Lay Member of the
Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland from 2002 to 2007, Senior Independent Director of the
Institute of Directors, Member of the executive committee for the
Scottish Council for Development and Industry, Chair of Education UK Scotland, Chair of Community Integrated Care, Convenor of the
Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations, and trustee of the David Hume Institute. She is currently Chair of
Capital Theatres in Edinburgh and a board member of Entrepreneurial Scotland. ==Honours==