Glenys came to Oxford from Western Australia in 1967 on a scholarship. She completed her DPhil in
Mathematics in 1970 and was appointed to a Tutorial Fellowship and CUF Lectureship.
Glenys remained in this post until retirement in 2007 with periods away in France and USA when on
sabbatical leave.
Her research interests are mainly in the area of Global Analysis, particularly Index theorems, the Novikov Conjecture and negatively curved manifolds.