Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Mathematician, Engineer, Software Developer / Architect and National Teaching Fellow with experience of senior executive leadership and management in academia and building successful teams with students as partners.
As part of Ulster's Senior Leadership Team, the PVC and ED provides leadership of four Schools, delivering Academic Excellence in Research and Impact, and Learning and Teaching. Other duties include growing and developing provision, leading major initiatives to transform the performance and reputation of the Faculty, including leading sustainability initiatives across the Faculty. The role also delivers other corporate institutional strategic leadership across the University.
The Centre for Higher Education Research and Practice (CHERP) facilitates the progression and implementation of Learning and Teaching priorities in collaboration with other key players within the institution. CHERP ensures the academic development of staff within the University, implements internal Learning and Teaching excellence awards and pipelines applications to national awards, and provides a fellowship of practice within Ulster University.
I am leading the transition of the Academy to a Fellow led Academy, the workstream for Early Career Mathematical Scientists, and the Academy's activity in Northern Ireland. The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci) provides an authoritative, persuasive, and influential voice for the whole of the mathematical sciences. It brings together academia, education, business, industry, and government from across all four nations, providing crucial connectivity for harnessing the power of the discipline. Through expert-led policy development and broad access to mathematical expertise, and with sufficient resources, the Academy will be a critical, high-impact delivery mechanism to address essential national priorities. It will support the pipeline of people, knowledge, and skills that is vital for economic growth and societal wellbeing.
I am leading the workstream for Early Career Mathematical Scientists, and the Academy's activity in Northern Ireland.
The Academy for the Mathematical Sciences (AcadMathSci) is the Senior Academy for Mathematics in the UK, providing an authoritative and persuasive voice for the whole of the mathematical sciences in the UK. I am serving as an Advisory Board Member particularly in the Policy space.
The Engineering Professors’ Council (EPC) is the representative body for engineering in higher education. Our primary purpose is to provide a forum at which engineers working in UK higher education can exchange ideas about engineering education, research and other matters of common interest and to come together to provide an influential voice and authoritative conduit through which engineering departments’ interests can be represented to key audiences such as funders, influencers, employers, professional bodies and Government.
The EPC was shocked and saddened by the death of Professor David Harrison, the long time and very respected Honorary Secretary of the EPC, in December 2022. I have agreed to take the interim role until the next EPC AGM when it can be substantively filled. https://epc.ac.uk/article/tributes-to-prof-david-harrison-honorary-secretary-of-the-epc/
Presidents of the EPC complete their service with a year as Immediate Past President and deputising for the new President to ensure a continuity of knowledge. During this time they remain as one of the four EPC Directors.
The ASET Advocates Panel (AAP) is a collection of individuals who bring unique knowledge and skills which augment the skills of the ASET Executive Committee. The panel serves to make recommendations and to provide key information and materials to the ASET Executive.