Claim: 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.
Evidence: 1959 (age 60–61) 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.