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Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli FRSE AcSS

Principal and Vice Chancellor

Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow since October 2009. From 2007-2009 he was Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University. An economist, his research interests are monetary economics, central bank independence, fiscal policy, international finance and macroeconomics.

Sir Anton is a member of the University Grants Committee, Hong Kong and he is Chair of its Research Group. He was a Director of the UK Universities Superannuation Scheme (2015-2024), one of the largest private pension funds in the UK. From 2017-2020 he was Chair of the prestigious Russell Group of UK research-intensive universities. He has held numerous UK and Scottish government advisory roles including Chair of the First Minister of Scotland’s Standing Council on Europe, member of the Scottish Government’s Council of Economic Advisers and adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee. He has also advised the European Commission and the World Bank. 

Sir Anton was knighted in 2017 for services to economics and higher education and was awarded the honour of Knight Commander (Commendatore) by the Republic of Italy in 2008 for contributions to higher education and economic science. He holds an honorary degree from McGill University in Canada.

(Estates Committee, Finance Committee, People & Organisational Development Committee, Nominations Committee, Remuneration Committee)

(October 2009 - September 2025)

Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli

Frank Coton

Senior Vice Principal and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic)

Frank Coton is also Professor of Low Speed Aerodynamics.  He leads on University-level resource planning and, together with the Executive Director of Human Resources, leads the introduction of processes and policies associated with academic career development and the academic aspects of organisational development.  He also has responsibility for oversight and leadership of the development, implementation and governance of the University strategy in relation to IT and digital technologies. 

Between 2010 and early 2019, Frank had responsibility for the development of educational policy and strategy and all teaching quality processes across the University.  Prior to this, until December 2009, he was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering.  During his time at Glasgow he has led a number of major infrastructure projects including installation of the Combined Heat and Power system, the Telephony system and the development of the James McCune-Smith Learning Hub. 

A former Chair of the UK Russell Group Committee of Pro-Vice Chancellors for Learning and Teaching, Frank’s academic background is in Aerospace Engineering and, in particular, aerodynamics. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a former Chair of the AIAA Applied Aerodynamics Committee.  He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

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David Duncan

Deputy Vice Chancellor (Operations) and University’s Chief Operating Officer and University Secretary

Prior to this, David was Registrar and Secretary at the University of York, a post he held for 8 years. Before then he was Secretary of the University of Dundee from 2001-8.

David is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and holds a Masters degree and a PhD in history from Queen’s University, Canada.

Chris Pearce

Vice Principal (Research and Knowledge Exchange)

Professor Chris Pearce is responsible for research strategy and policy development, working in collaboration with our four academic colleges. He is supported in this role by key professional services including Research & Innovation Services, Library, Planning, Insights & Analytics, and HR.

Chris is also Professor of Computational Mechanics in the James Watt School of Engineering and holds the Royal Academy of Engineering / EDF Energy Research chair. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers and a Chartered Engineer. He is co-Director of the Glasgow Computational Engineering Centre, on the Board of the Scotland 5G Centre and the Board of the Scottish Research Partnership of Engineering.

Since 2016, Chris has been Dean of Research and Deputy Head of the College of Science & Engineering. He leads the University’s Smart Campus project, with a vision to create a campus that is open, connected, adaptable and sustainable.

Rachel Sandison

Vice Principal (External Relations) and Deputy Vice Chancellor (External Engagement)

Rachel Sandison has responsibility for leading the University’s strategy for external engagement and an integrated Directorate covering Marketing; Student Recruitment; Admissions; Internationalisation; Widening Access and Development & Alumni Relations. Rachel has responsibility for international partnership development and is the University's Universitas 21 network Senior Leader and the institutional lead for our European network, The Guild, thereby supporting the activity of a global group of research-intensive universities.

Rachel is a Chartered Marketer and is currently the Chair of the CASE Europe Marketing Institute whilst also contributing to several sector advisory boards both at home and overseas.

Jo Gill

Vice Principal and Head of College of Arts & Humanities

Jo Gill is Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts & Humanities, and Professor of Twentieth-Century and American Literature. She joined the University of Glasgow in August 2022 from the University of Exeter where she served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the College of Humanities. She previously held the roles of Associate Dean for Education (2018-19) and Associate Dean for International and Development (2016-18).

Jo was educated at a comprehensive school in the north-west of England and took her BA at Leicester and her MA at York. She then worked in newspapers, publishing and the charity sector prior to returning to academia and taking her PhD at the University of Gloucestershire (2001).

Jo’s research and teaching interests include modern American poetry and the literature and culture of cities and suburbs. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetics (2007), The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath (2008) and The Poetics of the American Suburbs (2013). Her latest book, which was completed with the support of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, is Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms (OUP, forthcoming).

Jo served for six years as Governor, and then Chair of Governors, at Richard Huish Sixth Form College, Somerset. She is former secretary to the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and was the inaugural co-chair of the BAAS/US Embassy Grants Programme. She has previously served as a trustee of the Exeter Northcott Theatre and currently sits on the Advisory Board of the “93% Club.”

Iain McInnes

Vice Principal and Head of College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences 

Professor Iain McInnes is a global leader in the field of arthritis research. He has just been appointed as Vice Principal and Head of College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences in the University of Glasgow.

Over two decades, he has led numerous clinical trials and pathogenesis investigation programmes in inflammatory arthritis at the international level. His work has focused upon the biology of inflammatory cytokines in arthritis and extended to other inflammatory diseases. More recently he has worked on the mechanisms of co-morbidities in chronic diseases. He has in addition pioneered the area of precision medicine in inflammatory arthritis.

For the last 5 years, he has served as the Director of the ARUK Centre of Excellence for Rheumatoid Arthritis, now renewed as the UK Centre for Inflammatory Arthritis through to 2024. He is Chief Investigator of the IMID-Bio-UK meta-consortium leading the UK effort to discover precision medicine tractable biomarkers for application in immune diseases. He is immediate past chairman of the Foreum (Foundation for European Rheumatology Research) Scientific Committee, leads the European Roadmap programme that is defining the research agenda for European rheumatology for the next decade and in 2019 became President of EULAR, the leading transnational society for rheumatology across Europe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He has been recipient of a number of prizes recognizing his work including e.g. the Sir James Black Medal, 2017, The Heberden Medal from BSR in 2018 and most recently the Carol Nachmann Prize in 2019. He was made CBE by Her Majesty the Queen in 2019.

Muffy Calder

Vice Principal and Head of College of Science & Engineering

Professor Dame Muffy Calder is Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering. She is also Professor of Formal Methods and her research is in modelling and reasoning about the behaviour of complex software and biochemical systems using computer science, mathematics and automated reasoning techniques. She currently holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research merit award and was a Royal Society Leverhulme Research Senior Fellow.  In the distant past has been a research fellow at BT Laboratories and at DEC Research Labs in California; she  has  collaborated with a number of companies, most recently with NATS (air traffic services).

Previously,  for three years she was on secondment to Scottish Government as Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland.  Before that she was  Dean for Research in the College of Science and Engineering and she has held various positions including  Head of Department, chair of UKCRC (UK Computing Research Committee), Senate Assessor on University of Glasgow Court, member of EPSRC TOP (Technical Opportunities Panel) and co-chair of the Scottish Science Advisory Council.  She is past  external examiner for the MSc. at University of Manchester for undergraduate degrees at the universities of Warwick, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and NUI Cork. She has a PhD in Computational Science from the University of St. Andrews and a BSc in Computing Science from the University of Stirling. Over the years she has supervised 13 PhD students and 9 postdoctoral research assistants. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the British Computer Society and was awarded the OBE in 2011.

Sara Carter

Vice Principal and Head of College of Social Sciences

Professor Carter also holds several external appointments. She is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the First Minister of Scotland; the Enterprise & Skills Strategic Board; the Scottish Framework and Action Plan for Women in Enterprise Action Group; and Non-Executive Director of Women’s Enterprise Scotland. Previously, she was a member of the Leverhulme Trust Research Awards Advisory Committee and also served on the UK Government’s Women’s Enterprise Task Force. She was awarded an OBE for services to women entrepreneurs in 2008.

Professor Carter was Editor and Senior Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice from 2006-2012. She currently serves on the editorial board of leading academic journals, including the Journal of Business Venturing.

Her research examines the effects of business ownership on the individual, the economic wellbeing of entrepreneurial households, and the consequences of structural inequalities on resource access, particularly finance, on the SME sector.

Moira Fischbacher-Smith

Vice Principal (Learning & Teaching)

Professor Moira Fischbacher-Smith is responsible for strategy and policy development for learning and teaching, oversees quality enhancement, admissions policy and widening participation, and leads on collaborations with the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), Further Education Colleges and Glasgow International College.  She is a member of the Project Board that is developing a new Learning and Teaching Hub on the University's main campus and oversees refurbishment of central teaching spaces on campus.

Uzma Khan

Vice Principal for Economic Development and Innovation and Deputy Chief Operating Officer

Uzma Khan is Vice-Principal for Economic Development and Innovation, and Deputy Chief Operating Officer at the University of Glasgow, which she joined in November 2020.  Her role includes overseeing several corporate functions that support the University’s approach to delivering its latest strategy ‘World Changers Together - Strategy 2025’, including Planning, Research and Innovation Services, and Economic Development.  

In her capacity as Vice-Principal, Uzma has responsibility for ensuring delivery of the University’s innovation ambitions and in articulating the contribution and impact of innovation activity on the city, region and national economy.

Uzma currently holds a number of non-executive director and trustee roles including at the David Hume Institute, The Poverty Alliance and more recently, has joined CodeBase.

Prior to joining the Higher Education sector, Uzma spent 20 years in the civil service as a professional economist in Scottish Government, providing economic advice and analysis across a range of sectors and portfolios, including economy, health, transport and lifelong learning.

Martin Hendry

Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal (Academic Services)

As Clerk of Senate, Martin Hendry is responsible for the governance of academic policy and practice, as well as for academic standards, across the University.  The Clerk of Senate also oversees student conduct and academic ceremonies, most notably the Graduation ceremonies held each June/July and November/December.

Martin is also Professor of Gravitational Astrophysics and Cosmology in the School of Physics and Astronomy, where he was Head of School 2012-2020. He is a senior member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which in 2015 made the first ever detection of gravitational waves – a discovery that was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics. Martin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Institute of Physics. In 2015 he was awarded the MBE for services to the public understanding of science.

Carl Goodyear

Assistant Vice Principal (Strategy & Resources) 

Professor Carl Goodyear actively supports the Senior Vice Principal in the overall strategic and operational leadership and direction of the University.  He contributes to the leadership of the development, implementation and progress monitoring of the University’s Strategic Plan and to institutional resource planning.

Carl is also a Professor of Translational Immunology & Director of Innovation, Engagement & Enterprise within the School of Infection & Immunity. His research is currently focused on understanding immunopathogenesis of disease (i.e., Rheumatoid Arthritis, Osteoarthritis & Multiple Myeloma) and translating this knowledge into viable therapeutic agents for patients. His is also of the Director of the GLAZgo Discovery Centre, Head of the Glasgow-Lilly alliance and leads a Translational Immunology programme, which provides the critical interface between clinical and basic science.

Wendy Anderson

Assistant Vice Principal (Learning & Teaching)

Wendy Anderson is Dean of Learning & Teaching in the College of Arts & Humanities, University of Glasgow. She is Professor of Linguistics in the English Language & Linguistics subject area and her research specialism is in semantics, metaphor and corpus linguistics.

Bo Hu

The Chancellor's Assessor is appointed by the Chancellor to represent her on Court.  Her appointed Assessor is Dr Bo Hu.

Dr Bo Hu

Martin Hendry

As Clerk of Senate, Martin Hendry is responsible for the governance of academic policy and practice, as well as for academic standards, across the University.  The Clerk of Senate also oversees student conduct and academic ceremonies, most notably the Graduation ceremonies held each June/July and November/December.

Martin is also Professor of Gravitational Astrophysics and Cosmology in the School of Physics and Astronomy, where he was Head of School 2012-2020. He is a senior member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which in 2015 made the first ever detection of gravitational waves – a discovery that was awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics. Martin is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Institute of Physics. In 2015 he was awarded the MBE for services to the public understanding of science.

Christine Barr

Christine Barr is the Executive Director of People and Organisational Development at the University of Glasgow. Christine is a solution focused leader with a track record of delivery at corporate and strategic levels both within the public and private sectors. She has successfully led significant performance related reward, people development and organisational change programmes that facilitate the achievement of business goals. 

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development with an MSc in Human Resources Management, Christine spent her early career in a series of HR professional roles in the retail, manufacturing and water industries. 

Following a period in the further education sector, Christine originally joined the University of Glasgow as an HR business partner following which she led a number of major strategic HR leadership projects becoming Deputy Director of the service in 2010, prior to taking up her current role in December 2013. 

Christine has led the development and implementation of the University’s People Strategy in the achievement of major HR strategic initiatives aligned with the ambitious strategic plans of the institution. She is an active participant in the UHR, Russell Group and Universitas 21 networks.

The University’s overall Equality Champion is the Principal and Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli.

Six other Equality Champions, all drawn from senior management, have specific responsibilities for the following protected characteristics.  

• Age
• Disability
• Gender (Sex), Pregnancy and Maternity, Marriage and Civil Partnership
• LGBT+ (including Sexual Orientation, Gender Reassignment, Marriage and Civil Partnership)
• Race
• Religion and Belief

In 2013 the University also created the role of Refugee Champion and in 2017 created the role of Mental Health Champion.

All Champions promote and raise awareness around equality issues and provide feedback to the Equality and Diversity Strategy Committee.

Their role includes:

• Assisting with the progression of equality objectives as outlined in the Equality and Diversity Strategy.
• Advocating on equality and diversity matters.
• Working with relevant staff and student equality networks. 

Jo Gill

Vice-Principal and Head of College of Arts & Humanities

Jo Gill is Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts & Humanities, and Professor of Twentieth-Century and American Literature. She joined the University of Glasgow in August 2022 from the University of Exeter where she served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the College of Humanities. She previously held the roles of Associate Dean for Education (2018-19) and Associate Dean for International and Development (2016-18).

Jo was educated at a comprehensive school in the north-west of England and took her BA at Leicester and her MA at York. She then worked in newspapers, publishing and the charity sector prior to returning to academia and taking her PhD at the University of Gloucestershire (2001).

Jo’s research and teaching interests include modern American poetry and the literature and culture of cities and suburbs. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Anne Sexton’s Confessional Poetics (2007), The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath (2008) and The Poetics of the American Suburbs (2013). Her latest book, which was completed with the support of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, is Modern American Poetry and the Architectural Imagination: The Harmony of Forms (OUP, forthcoming).

Jo served for six years as Governor, and then Chair of Governors, at Richard Huish Sixth Form College, Somerset. She is former secretary to the British Association for American Studies (BAAS) and was the inaugural co-chair of the BAAS/US Embassy Grants Programme. She has previously served as a trustee of the Exeter Northcott Theatre and currently sits on the Advisory Board of the “93% Club.”

Iain McInnes

Vice-Principal and Head of College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences

Professor Iain McInnes is a global leader in the field of arthritis research. He has just been appointed as Vice Principal and Head of College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences in the University of Glasgow.

Over two decades, he has led numerous clinical trials and pathogenesis investigation programmes in inflammatory arthritis at the international level. His work has focused upon the biology of inflammatory cytokines in arthritis and extended to other inflammatory diseases. More recently he has worked on the mechanisms of co-morbidities in chronic diseases. He has in addition pioneered the area of precision medicine in inflammatory arthritis.

For the last 5 years, he has served as the Director of the ARUK Centre of Excellence for Rheumatoid Arthritis, now renewed as the UK Centre for Inflammatory Arthritis through to 2024. He is Chief Investigator of the IMID-Bio-UK meta-consortium leading the UK effort to discover precision medicine tractable biomarkers for application in immune diseases. He is immediate past chairman of the Foreum (Foundation for European Rheumatology Research) Scientific Committee, leads the European Roadmap programme that is defining the research agenda for European rheumatology for the next decade and in 2019 became President of EULAR, the leading transnational society for rheumatology across Europe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences. He has been recipient of a number of prizes recognizing his work including e.g. the Sir James Black Medal, 2017, The Heberden Medal from BSR in 2018 and most recently the Carol Nachmann Prize in 2019. He was made CBE by Her Majesty the Queen in 2019.

Muffy Calder

Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science & Engineering

Professor Dame Muffy Calder is Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science and Engineering. She is also Professor of Formal Methods and her research is in modelling and reasoning about the behaviour of complex software and biochemical systems using computer science, mathematics and automated reasoning techniques. She currently holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research merit award and was a Royal Society Leverhulme Research Senior Fellow.  In the distant past has been a research fellow at BT Laboratories and at DEC Research Labs in California; she  has  collaborated with a number of companies, most recently with NATS (air traffic services).

Previously, for three years she was on secondment to Scottish Government as Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland.  Before that she was  Dean for Research in the College of Science and Engineering and she has held various positions including  Head of Department, chair of UKCRC (UK Computing Research Committee), Senate Assessor on University of Glasgow Court, member of EPSRC TOP (Technical Opportunities Panel) and co-chair of the Scottish Science Advisory Council.  She is past  external examiner for the MSc. at University of Manchester for undergraduate degrees at the universities of Warwick, St. Andrews, Edinburgh, and NUI Cork. She has a PhD in Computational Science from the University of St. Andrews and a BSc in Computing Science from the University of Stirling. Over the years she has supervised 13 PhD students and 9 postdoctoral research assistants. She is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the British Computer Society and was awarded the OBE in 2011.

Sara Carter

Vice-Principal and Head of College of Social Sciences

Professor Carter also holds several external appointments. She is a member of the Council of Economic Advisers to the First Minister of Scotland; the Enterprise & Skills Strategic Board; the Scottish Framework and Action Plan for Women in Enterprise Action Group; and Non-Executive Director of Women’s Enterprise Scotland. Previously, she was a member of the Leverhulme Trust Research Awards Advisory Committee and also served on the UK Government’s Women’s Enterprise Task Force. She was awarded an OBE for services to women entrepreneurs in 2008.

Professor Carter was Editor and Senior Editor of Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice from 2006-2012. She currently serves on the editorial board of leading academic journals, including the Journal of Business Venturing.

Her research examines the effects of business ownership on the individual, the economic wellbeing of entrepreneurial households, and the consequences of structural inequalities on resource access, particularly finance, on the SME sector.

Professor Sarah Armstrong

(Audit and Risk Committee, Student Experience Committee)
(1 August 2023 - 31 July 2027)

‌Professor Dan Haydon   

(Finance Committee, Nominations Committee)
(1 November 2022 - 31 October 2026)

Professor Simon Kennedy 

(Estates Committee, Finance Committee)
(August 2017 - July 2025)

Professor Tara Brendle

(Estates Committee, People & Organisational Development Committee)
(January 2024 - December 2027) 

Professor Bethan Wood 

(People & Organisational Development Committee, Remuneration Committee, Information Policy & Strategy Committee)
(September 2017 - July 2025)

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The Senior Management Group advises the Principal as chief executive officer of the University on matters of policy. It also advises Court and Senate on matters of strategic policy (academic and resource), and acts on a day-to-day basis to implement the policies of Court and Senate.

The Senior Management Group comprises:

• Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli: Principal and Vice Chancellor
• Professor Frank Coton: Senior Vice Principal and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic)
• Rachel Sandison: Vice Principal (External Relations) and Deputy Vice Chancellor (External Engagement)
• Dr David Duncan: Chief Operating Officer/University Secretary and Deputy Vice Chancellor (Operations)
• Professor Chris Pearce: Vice Principal (Research & Knowledge Exchange)
• Uzma Khan: Vice Principal (Economic Development & Innovation)
• Professor Moira Fischbacher-Smith: Vice Principal (Learning & Teaching)
• Jo Gill: Vice Principal and Head of College of Arts & Humanities
• Professor Iain McInnes: Vice Principal and Head of College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
• Professor Sara Carter: Vice Principal & Head of College of Social Sciences
• Professor Dame Muffy Calder: Vice Principal and Head of College of Science & Engineering
• Christine Barr: Executive Director of Human Resources
• Gregor Caldow: Executive Director of Finance
• Martin Hendry: Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal (Academic Services)

The Shadow Board is supported by Christine Barr as the SMG Sponsor and James Hamilton as advisor for the Shadow Board.

Read more about the Shadow Board on their dedicated webpages.

Chris Buckland (Chair)

I am a graduate of the University of Glasgow and have recently returned to my role as Assistant Director of Registry having been seconded to posts in Student Engagement and Academic Policy & Governance during 2022 and 2023.  I have worked in Higher Education since 2006, and within that time I have been responsible for a wide range of student-facing and operational activities, including Examinations, Financial Aid, Immigration Compliance and International Student Support and at the University of Glasgow, as well as tuition fee forecasting and Student Services at other institutions. 

I was selected as Chair of the Shadow Board in August 2023, and I hope to be able to use my skills and experience to act as a critical friend to the Senior Management Group and make a positive difference for both staff and students.

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey is a lecturer in Autonomous Systems at the James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow.

Additionally, he is a working group co-chair in the UN’s ITU-T Focus Group on Autonomous Networks and a visiting researcher at the University of Strathclyde. Paul also possess extensive experience in industrial research, where he was co-founder and research lead of the Rakuten Mobile Innovation Studio, and is a strong believer in open and collaborative research.

www.paul-harvey.org

Hessam Mehr

I am a research fellow working at the interface of chemistry, robotics, and computing science. A new addition to the shadowboard, I joined in 2022.

I have lived, worked, and studied in Iran and Canada prior to coming to Scotland, including a period of working for the Canadian Ministry of Health just before starting my post-doc in the Cronin group at Glasgow in March 2018. As an early-career researcher, I am glad to be able to represent the University's younger academics in the shadowboard, in addition to the concerns of the student body with whom researchers are invariably connected.

I have been a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship since May 2022 working on next generation chemical discovery engines.

Craig Thomson-Gold

I joined the University in 2009 and worked in International Recruitment based in External Relations for nine years, before joining Registry in 2018. Currently, I am Graduation and Ceremonial Events Coordinator, managing university events including Commemoration Day and Remembrance Sunday. I am also Clerk to several committees including the Honorary Degrees and Academic Dress committees, and Secretary to the Military Education Committee of Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities. In my time at the University, I have worked collaboratively with staff from across the institution, something I look forward to continuing on the Shadow Board.

In my spare time, I enjoy walking, reading and range of arts and crafts.

My preferred pronouns are they/ them. 

Alison Devlin

As the Student Operations Manager for College of Science and Engineering, I work collegiately to deliver an excellent service to our students and colleagues while aspiring to improve learning and teaching systems and processes for all. My experience in both School and College teams provides me with a comprehensive understanding of the learning and teaching space which I really value and will bring with me to the Shadow Board.

I will approach the Shadow Board with openness and innovation, and am looking forward to becoming a critical friend to the Senior Management Group. I am committed to make a positive difference for both students and colleagues.

Amy-Beth Jordan

I am an Events Management professional with a passion for stakeholder experience, currently leading the Events Team within the External Relations Directorate. I have 15 years of experience in events and stakeholder engagement within the higher education sector, including seven at the University of Glasgow. My previous experience includes working within the private sector and in Arts & Culture, which is something I have a personal passion for.

Through my experience in Events, I have engaged with a wide array of internal and external stakeholders including prospective and exisiting students, alumni, donors, strategic partners, academics and everyone else in between! I am committed to ensuring that anyone who engages with the University through one of our events has a positive experience and feels a part of the #TeamUofG community.

I will embrace this new opportunity to support the Senior Management Team as a critical friend on the Shadow Board with a can-do mindset and hope to represent the University’s values in action.

Julia Hartley

I am a Lecturer in Comparative Literature in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures with specialisms in French, Italian, and Iranian Studies. I joined the University of Glasgow in January 2023. Prior to this, I held posts at Oxford, Warwick, and King’s College London. The rapid expansion and privatisation of the UK higher education sector has left many academics and students feeling disconnected from decisions and disillusioned about the state of universities. I am therefore proud to work at an institution with a Shadow Board, giving those of us on the ground a valuable opportunity to share our feedback with senior management. 

Tony Corrigan

I am the Student Operations Manager for the College of Social Sciences (CoSS) .  I joined the University in 2019 having previously worked in a variety of people leadership and programme management roles within the financial services sector.  My role involves working with colleagues within CoSS , other Colleges and University level services to help shape and deliver the best possible support for our UG and PGR students throughout their studies.    I strongly believe in the purpose of the Shadow Board and welcome the opportunity to build on the work to date, exchanging knowledge and experience with fellow Board members in order to provide constructive support and challenge to the Senior Management Group.

Simon Ambrose