{"id":19273,"date":"2016-07-22T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=19273"},"modified":"2016-07-22T08:24:11","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T08:24:11","slug":"the-university-of-sheffield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2016\/07\/22\/the-university-of-sheffield\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Sheffield"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"University<\/p>\n

The University of Sheffield<\/h5>\n

It is with great excitement that I can announce this morning that, as from 1st November 2016, I will be moving to take up the position of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Sheffield<\/a>.\u00a0 The University has formally put out a press release with this news this morning<\/a>.\u00a0 A Pro-Vice-Chancellor is the equivalent of a Vice-President in the US system.\u00a0 I will help to provide strategic leadership in research across the university, and will lead on all innovation (knowledge transfer, enterprise, consultancy, business generation, etc) as well.\u00a0 It is a very exciting step for me.<\/p>\n

Sheffield is a very strong, research-led Russell Group<\/a> (the UK equivalent of the Ivy League) university.\u00a0 It’s in the World top 100 institutions, with over 27,000 students and a research income of over \u00a3140 million.\u00a0 It has a fabulous reputation for the quality of the student experience – it came third out of 117 institutions in the 2016 Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey<\/a> for example.<\/p>\n

Of course, this means that with great sadness I will leave the University of East Anglia<\/a> on 31st October.\u00a0 I will do so with real sorrow – I’ve loved my time at UEA.\u00a0 It’s a great university, one that also focuses on the student experience (UEA came 7th in the same survey), and I have had the honour and privilege to work with some amazing people.\u00a0 UEA is a university that has extraordinary strength, amazing staff and an astonishing can-do attitude.\u00a0 Its location in the East of England means that it will play a fundamental role in the development of a gorgeous part of the UK.\u00a0 Until I moved to Norwich<\/a> I had not appreciated what an amazing city it is.\u00a0 Being here has been absolutely instrumental to my career, and I have loved every minute of it.\u00a0 The university has a tremendous future ahead of it, and I shall watch with great interest as the university develops.<\/p>\n

But I see amazing opportunities in Sheffield, and I cannot wait to play a part in the development of that wonderful university.\u00a0 It is an institution that is firmly rooted in its city and region, which will play a massive role in helping Britain to find a new path in the wake of the Brexit result.\u00a0 I feel deeply honoured to have been asked to join the University of Sheffield, and am hugely looking forward to working with colleagues and students across the institution.<\/p>\n

\"University

The new Diamond Building at the University of Sheffield, via De Zeen<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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