By Professor Judith Squires, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost
I was delighted to co-host an event last month alongside the Vice-Chancellor to celebrate the recent promotion of new Professors within the University. A full list of those promoted to Professor and Associate Professor, formerly known as Reader, appear at the end of this post: congratulations to all who have achieved these much-deserved promotions.
I was also pleased to note that of this year’s cohort of 45 new professors, 58% are women. This promotion round has increased the proportion of female professors to 28.5%. This exceeds the target we set ourselves three years ago in the University Strategy, which was to reach 28% by 2019. In addition, modelling of our current population data suggests that we are on track to meet our longer-term target of 33% by 2023. As a result of numerous local and central initiatives over the last five years, our female professor population has increased by 11.4%. These initiatives include measures which encourage and enable flexible working in successful academic careers, recognise performance in a wider academic framework to include leadership and citizenship, and offer more support for promotion and career planning.
I am also hugely heartened by the reduction of the professorial gender pay gap. Our professorial mean gender pay gap (base pay and supplements) reduced from 7.5% last year to 6.7% this year. This is a welcome reduction, reflecting the fact that more women are joining the professoriate, and we have an increasing number of women progressing through professorial ranges 2 and 3. Indeed the mean pay gap in range 2 (which is where 48% of all professors are located) is now in women’s favour. We will continue to monitor our practices and introduce new initiatives, where needed, to meet our target of a maximum professorial gender pay gap of 3% by 2023. We have also seen a reduction in our organisational gender pay gap, reflecting the fact that more women are progressing into senior roles.
There has also been real progress in relation to our support for women’s career development. I was proud to launch the Women’s Mentoring Network last academic year and delighted with the positive uptake and engagement with this scheme, which is supporting 121 mentees (46 of whom are academic) at grades K and L. The mid-programme review of the scheme suggests that the one-to-one mentoring is proving to be particularly effective. We will seek to build on this in future years. Another welcome development is the introduction of the Female Leadership Initiative (FLi), which sits alongside the existing Aurora programme, and has had 22 participants to date. Feedback has been very positive and so we will run it again this year.
Congratulations again to all the newly appointed professors, and thanks to everyone who has engaged in the various initiatives underway to tackle gender equality. I look forward to continuing with this important work.
The following were promoted to Professor with effect from 1 August 2019:
| Faculty of Arts | |
| Marianne Ailes | Professor of French |
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Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Entrepreneurship & Innovation Pedagogy |
| Michael Ellison | Professor of Composition |
| Mhairi Gibson | Professor of Anthropology |
| Ruth Glynn | Professor of Modern Italian Culture |
| Madhu Krishnan | Professor of African, World and Comparative Literatures |
| Ulrika Maude | Professor of Modern Literature |
| Elaine McGirr | Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies |
| Dorothy Price | Professor of History of Art |
| Leah Tether | Professor of Medieval Literature and Publishing |
| Beth Williamson | Professor of Medieval Culture |
| Faculty of Engineering | |
| Mahdi Azarpeyvand | Professor of Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics |
| Andrew Calway | Professor of Computer Vision |
| Nathan Lepora | Professor of Robotics and AI |
| John Macdonald | Professor of Structural Dynamics |
| Valeska Ting | Professor of Smart Nanomaterials |
| Faculty of Health Sciences | |
| Kathleen Gillespie | Professor of Molecular Medicine |
| David Kessler | Professor of Primary Care |
| Simon Satchell | Professor of Renal and Vascular Medicine |
| Athene Lane | Professor of Trials Research |
| Sheena Warman | Professor of Veterinary Education |
| Faculty of Life Sciences | |
| Jonathan Hanley | Professor of Molecular Neuroscience |
| Claire Haworth | Professor of Behavioural Genetics |
| Ute Leonards | Professor of Neuropsychology |
| Ruth Massey | Professor of Microbial Pathogenicity |
| Adam Perriman | Professor of Bioengineering |
| Martin Bunnage | Honorary Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology |
| Faculty of Science | |
| Juliet Biggs | Professor of Earth Sciences |
| Tamara Grava | Professor of Mathematical Physics |
| Julie MacLeavy | Professor of Economic Geography |
| James Wookey | Professor of Geophysics |
| Andrew Booker | Professor of Pure Mathematics |
| Faculty of Social Sciences and Law | |
| Diego Acosta Arcarazo | Professor of European and Migration Law |
| Sarah Ayres | Professor of Public Policy and Governance |
| Katharine Charsley | Professor of Migration Studies |
| Francesco Giovannoni | Professor of Economics |
| Paula Hill | Professor of Finance and Accounting |
| Gregory Jolivet | Professor of Economics |
| Ana E Juncos Garcia | Professor of European Politics |
| George Leckie | Professor of Social Statistics |
| Lee Marshall | Professor of Sociology |
| Therese O’Toole | Professor of Sociology |
| Albert Sanchez Graells | Professor of Economic Law |
| Evarist Stoja | Professor of Finance |
| Stephanie von Hinke Kessler Scholder | Professor of Economics |
| Guoxing Yu | Professor of Language Assessment |
The following were promoted to Associate Professor with effect from 1 August 2019:
| Faculty of Arts | |
| Bradley Stephens | Associate Professor in French Literature |
| Faculty of Engineering | |
| Krishna Coimbatore Balram | Associate Professor in Photonic Quantum Engineering |
| James Norman | Associate Professor in Sustainable Design |
| Faculty of Health Sciences | |
| Umberto Benedetto | Associate Professor in Cardiac Surgery |
| Liz Coulthard | Associate Professor in Dementia Neurology |
| Paddy Horner | Associate Professor in Sexually Transmitted Infections |
| Jeremy Horwood | Associate Professor in Social Sciences and Health |
| Richard Lee | Associate Professor in Ophthalmology |
| Penny Whiting | Associate Professor in Clinical Epidemiology |
| Graham Stuart | Honorary Associate Professor in Sports and Exercise Cardiology |
| Faculty of Life Sciences | |
| Christos Ioannou | Associate Professor in Behavioural Ecology |
| Faculty of Science | |
| Anthony Laing | Associate Professor in Physics |
| Tom Oliver | Royal Society University Research Fellow and Associate Professor in Chemistry |
| Nick Whiteley | Associate Professor in Statistics |
| John Russo | Associate Professor in Mathematics |
| Faculty of Social Sciences and Law | |
| Vanessa Beck | Associate Professor in Work and Organisation |
| Shelley McKeown Jones | Associate Professor in Social Psychology |
| Julia Paulson | Associate Professor in Education, Peace and Conflict |
| Sheena Vachhani | Associate Professor in Work and Organisation Studies |
| Liz Washbrook | Associate Professor in Quantitative Methods |
| Imogen Moore | Associate Professor in Law |