Higher Education

Francis Glover, Deputy Director of International at De Montfort University has been appointed as the new Director of Global Recruitment at Oxford Brookes University 

Professor Chris Speed, Director of the Edinburgh Futures Institute and Director of Creative Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed as Professor of Design for Regenerative Futures at RMIT University

Lim Kok Yoong is appointed as the new Professor of Digital Media at RMIT University Vietnam

Dr Katarzyna (Kasia) Zdunczyk has been appointed as the new Deputy Head of School for Education at the University of Southampton’s Business School. 

Professor Jermaine Ravalier has been appointed as Buckinghamshire New University's next Head of School of Health and Social Care Professions.

Mark Gower has been appointed as Head of Department of 3D Design for Kingston School of Art.

Dr Isabel Henton has been appointed as the new Deputy Dean of the School of Psychology at the University of Roehampton.

Anastasios Maragiannis joins DCDI as Associate Head of College (External Relations).

Tania Baumann, the current Chief Operating Officer at the World Energy Council, and Professor David Adams, the former Pro-Vice Chancellor, Head of College of Medical and Dental Sciences, and Dean of Medicine at the University of Birmingham, have been appointed as Lancaster University’s new Lay Members of Council. 

Dr Nimesh Patel is appointed at UCL's Medical School as the new Academic Lead for Assessment.

Professor Gail Taylor, the current Chair of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), has been appointed as the next Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences at University College London.

David Pacey, currently Chief Governance Officer at the University of Sydney, will be UCL’s new University Secretary.

Caragh Molloy, the former Group People Director of the Open University, has joined the University of Westminster as their new Director of People, Culture, and Wellbeing

Society supports several non-executive hires to BCU’s Board of Governors and Sub Committees.

Professor Richard Bucknall has been appointed as the next Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering and Kennedy Chair at UCL.

Exeter Law School welcomes Professor Clair Gammage as its new Head

Adrian Thomas joins the Academic Registrar's Division as its new Director of Recruitment and Admissions

Dr Alice Payne has joined RMIT University as the Dean of the School of Fashion and Textiles

Professor Sam Janes has been appointed as the next Director of the Division of Medicine at UCL.

Professor Christopher J. Gerry from the University of Oxford will be joining the University of Central Asia (UCA) as the new Dean of its Graduate School of Development.

Professor Robert Allison, Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University, and Clare Viney, Chief Executive Officer of the Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) join QAA's Advisory Committee.

Following a search by Society, two new independent members join the governing body of the University of Sussex

Earlier this year we undertook a series of appointments for KSA entirely virtually, due to the restraints to the coronavirus pandemic.

Professor Mahmoud Mostafavi has been appointed as the new Professor and Head of Department, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Monash University

Dr Barry Hill has been appointed as the new Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery at Buckinghamshire New University (BNU)

Dr Mazia Yassim has been appointed as the next Associate Head of College (External Relations) for Westminster Business School

Professor Mark Freestone, the current Director of Education at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) has been appointed as the next Chief Education and Training Officer/ Dean of Postgraduate Studies at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust. 

Dr Mandy Gault has been appointed as the new Deputy Dean (Student Education) of the School of Life and Health Sciences at the University of Roehampton. 

Dr Shivadas Sivasubramaniam has been appointed as the new Deputy Dean of the School of Life and Health Sciences at the University of Roehampton. 

Professor Karl Peggs takes up Director roles leading clinical research partnership with University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Jacqui Glass has been appointed as Dean of The Bartlett, UCL’s Faculty of the Built Environment, having held the interim Dean position since April 2024.

Peter Weatherburn has been appointed as the inaugural Associate Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Public Health and Policy at The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

RMIT University Vietnam appoints Dr. Giannina Warren as their new Associate Professor and Senior Program Manager for the Bachelor of Professional Communication at the School of Communication and Design.

Dr Alan Brown joins the LSHTM from the University of Exeter where he was Co-Director Education and Student Experience for the Department of Biosciences

Professor Peter Fussey joins the University of Southampton from the University of Essex, where he was Co-director of the Centre for Research into Information, Surveillance and Privacy (CRISP).

Professor Gert Attard is appointed as the next Director of the UCL Cancer Institute

Professor Lauren Stewart has been appointed as Professor of Psychology at the University of Roehampton. 

Dr Alexandra Bailey joins the University of Roehampton as Associate Professor in Forensic Psychology.

Hywel Davies has been appointed as Dean of M-School at Central Saint Martins