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School Governance

Executive Committee

Membership:

Head of School (Chair)
Professor David Blackbourn

School Director of Education
Professor Colin Lumsden

School Director of Research
Professor Ian Stansfield

School EDI Lead
Dr Asha Venkatesh

Institute Directors:

IAHS
Professor Alan St Clair Gibson

IEHMS
Professor Colin Lumsden

Institute of Dentistry
Professor Khaled Khalaf

IMS
Professor Iain McEwan

Rowett Institute
Professor Julian Griffin

HR Partner
Fiona Macaskill, Heather Clark

Finance Accountant
Paul Chisholm, Louise Stewart

Marketing Manager
Kelley Waitz-Rainey

Curriculum Manager
Christine Kay

Registrar
Sarah Duncan

Purpose:

The School Executive supports the Head of School in ensuring the effective leadership, co-ordination and management of the School’s activities. It plays an important role in the dissemination of information to staff and students within the School and in supporting the development, implementation and monitoring of the School’s strategic and operational plans.

Remit:

To oversee the development, implementation and monitoring of strategic and operational planning activities across the School;
To support the Head of School in monitoring and ensuring the delivery of the School’s financial plans, targets and budgets;
To support the Head of School in ensuring the School’s activities contribute towards the delivery of the 20 Commitments and associated Key Performance Indicators set out in Aberdeen 2040;
To support the Head of School in fostering a culture of research excellence within the School and ensuring that research activities contribute to the achievement of the Aberdeen 2040 commitments and a high-quality institutional REF submission;
To support the Head of School in ensuring that the School offers a high-quality education and learning experience (online, blended and on-campus) to all students;
To oversee health, safety and wellbeing matters within the School, either via a School Health & Safety Committee or by assuming direct responsibility where a separate committee does not exist;
To ensure the effective oversight and monitoring of School committee activities; and
To provide a forum for information sharing and dissemination of management decisions across the School.

Frequency of Meetings:

School Executive meetings will typically take place once per month, but less frequently outwith term time.

Health & Safety Committee

Purpose

The School of Medical, Medical Sciences & Nutrition (SMMSN) will have oversight of the Health & Safety management across each Institute, keeping under review the measures taken to ensure effective management of the health & safety of all employees, students and visitors.

Remit

To advise the School Executive and wider school community on Health & Safety matters aligning with and responding to University Health and Safety Committee.
To recommend and implement actions required to improve Health and Safety within the School.
Provide a forum for discussion of Health & Safety matters and to provide uniformity in advice across the school.
To produce, monitor and review the effectiveness of a School Health & Safety manual.
To monitor health and safety performance indicators through periodic review of safety audit reports, accident and incident data, fire evacuation reports, and any other reports and statistics as deemed appropriate by the Committee.
To monitor and report, as appropriate, to University Health & Safety Committee on compliance with statutory and University requirements.

Membership

Convener: Head of School or nominated Deputy - Professor David Blackbourn

Members

Director of Institute (IMS) - Professor Iain McEwan
Director of Institute (RINH) - Professor Jules Griffin
Director of Institute (IAHS) - Professor Alan St Clair Gibson
Director of Institute (IEHMS) - Professor Colin Lumsden
Director of Institute (IofD) - Professor Khaled Khalaf
Lead Safety Coordinator representing each Institute - Dr Guy Bewick (IMS), Dana Wilson (RINH), Dr Santosh Gaihre (IAHS), Lynn Thomson (IEHMS), Dr Anand Lalli (IofD), Karen Strangward (IoD)
Technical Resource Manager/Officer representing each Institute/Building - Lynne Lumsden (SMMSN), Dr Wendy Pickford (IMS), Dana Wilson (RINH), Lynn Thomson (IEHMS), Dr Claire Walker (IMS)
Central Health & Safety Advisor - Dr Allan Petrie
Foresterhill Biological Safety Committee representative - Dr Alexander Lorenz , Rosa Colamarino
Lead Radiation Protection Safety representative (RPS) - Dana Wilson
ECR representative - Dr Claire Whyte
Estates representative - Robert Philp
Clerk - Elizabeth Logan

Attendance as required:

SMMSN representative on Science Teaching Hub H&S Committee
Laser Protection representative - report to be given via RPS
Equality, Diversity & Inclusivity representative
Current University of Aberdeen Radiation & Laser Protection Adviser
School HR Partner

Meeting dates

29th September 2025
15th December 2025

Minutes

SMMSN Education Governance

SMMSN Education Governance

SMMSN Research Governance

SMMSN Research Governance

SMMSN Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

Equality Diversity & Inclusion