Stephanie Peay is a British Ecologist born in 1959 who acquired her PhD in the University of Leeds, one of the top universities in UK for the number of applications received.
1959 (age 6061) Peay studied at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hull, and in 2014 was awarded a PhD by the University of Leeds. From 2006 to present, the university has consistently been ranked within the top 5 (alongside the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University, the University of Nottingham and the University of Edinburgh) in the United Kingdom for the number of applications received. 
