Senior Management Team Structure

Senior Management Team Structure

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Principal & Vice Chancellor

  • Professor George Boyne

University Secretary & Chief Operating Officer (SMT member)

  • Tracey Slaven
  1. Risk
  2. Health & safety
  3. Information governance

Directors

  • External Relations (SMT member) - Currently vacant
  • People (SMT member) - Debbie Dyker
  • Estates & Facilities - Morag Beers
  • Digital & Information Services - Brian Henderson
  • Academic Services & Online Education - Gillian Mackintosh
  • Planning & Governance - Hulda Sveinsdottir
  • Research & Innovation - Liz Rattray

Chief Financial Officer (SMT member)

  • Mark White

Vice-Principals

  • Education (SMT member) - Jo-Anne Murray (from 01/02/24); Ruth Taylor (to 31/01/24)
  1. Learning & teaching strategy & policies
  2. Student retention and employability progression
  3. Teaching quality & enhancement
  4. Widening participation
  5. Student experience & support
  6. Equality, diversity & inclusion strategy
  • Research (SMT member) - Nicholas Forsyth
  1. Institutional research strategy
  2. REF strategy
  3. Leadership of institutional research activity
  4. Graduate school
  5. Establishment licence holder
  • Regional Engagement (SMT member) - Pete Edwards
  1. Regional Engagement
  2. Civic University
  3. Innovation start-ups & spin-outs
  4. Commercialisation
  5. Digital Strategy
  • Global Engagement (SMT member) - Alan Speight
  1. Student recruitment strategy (all markets)
  2. Online marketing and recruitment strategy
  3. Widening access
  4. International partnerships
  5. Strategic partnership with AFG

Advancement (SMT member)

  • Liza Boffen-Yordanov

Senior Vice-Principal (SMT member)

  • Karl Leydecker
  1. Estates strategy
  2. Sustainable development
  3. People strategy

Heads of School

  • Biological Sciences - Graeme Paton
  • Business School - John Skatun 
  • Divinity, History, Philosophy & Art History - Beth Lord
  • Education - Catriona MacDonald
  • Engineering - Ekaterina Pavlovskaia
  • Geosciences - David Muirhead
  • Language, Literature, Music & Visual Culture - Chris Collins
  • Law - Greg Gordon
  • Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition - Siladitya Bhattacharya
  • Natural & Computing Sciences - David McGloin
  • Psychology - Douglas Martin
  • Social Science - Ian Greener