Senate Assessors
Professor Miles Padgett
Physics & Astronomy
Miles Padgett has been a Senate Assessor on the University Court since 2011. In that role he is currently a member of the University Finance Committee and the Promotions and Recognition & Reward committees of the college of Arts. Like other Senate Assessors he sits on ad hoc committees of Court and panels undertaking periodic reviews of academic subjects, graduate schools and University Services. He holds the Kelvin Chair of Natural Philosophy in the School of Physics and Astronomy where he leads the Optics Group. His 15-person team coves a wide spectrum from bluesky research to applied commercial development, funded by a combination of government, charity and industry. In 2001 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2007/8 he was a Leverhulme Trust-Royal Society Senior Research Fellow and since 2009 he has been the holder of a Royal Society-Wolfson Merit Award. In 2009 Padgett was awarded the Institute of Physics Young Medal "for pioneering work on optical angular momentum", including the conversion of optical tweezers to optical spanners by which microscopic objects can be trapped and controlled by the pressure of light alone.
Professor Christine Forde
Professional Learning and Leadership
Christine Forde has been a Senate Assessor on the University Court since November 2012. In that role she is currently a member of the University HR Committee, the promotions Committee of the College of Arts. She is also involved each year in a number of other groups and panels including period subject reviews.
Christine is Professor of Leadership and Professional Learning in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow and leads the Research and Knowledge Transfer Group Professional Learning and Leadership. She mainly works in the area of leadership and teacher professional development. Previously Christine was a primary school teacher and a lecturer in St Andrew’s College of Education. She works regularly with national bodies and organizations in education on issues related to leadership and teacher development.
Christine’s research focuses on two areas in education firstly leadership and professional development and secondly on gender and equality She is working with colleagues on a project looking at the development of accomplished and expert teaching. In addition, she has published books in the area of gender, feminist perspectives in education and utopian thinking and education.
Professor Nick Jonnson
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health & Comparative Medicine
Nick Jonsson is a Senate Assessor on Court, elected in 2013 from the Professoriate of the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences. He has been a member of Senate since joining the University in 2009 as Professor of Animal Production and Public Health.
Nick came to the University of Glasgow from the University of Queensland, Australia, where he was Associate Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science. Prior to that he has held academic and research roles at the University of Glasgow and the Queensland Department of Primary Industries, having previously owned and operated a mixed veterinary practice in rural NSW. Nick is a member of the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine and serves as Associate Head of School (Research) for the School of Veterinary Medicine. He is currently the Champion for the Research Excellence Framework (REF) Unit of Assessment 6 (Agriculture, Veterinary and Food Science). He teaches into the BVMS and BSc(Vet Biosciences) programmes, covering diverse aspects of farm animal veterinary practice, metabolism, tropical veterinary medicine and animal husbandry. His research interests include the interaction between livestock hosts and their parasites (particularly ticks) and the control of parasitic disease, as well as the interactions between immunity and production performance of farm animals.
Outside Glasgow, Nick is on the Editorial Boards for the International Journal for Parasitology – Drugs and Drug Resistance and The Veterinary Journal and is currently the Chair of the Education and Residency Committee of the European College of Bovine Health Management, the European college of specialists in bovine veterinary practice. He is external examiner at University College Dublin. He has also been a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Dr Donald Spaeth
History
He has been a member of the staff of the University of Glasgow since 1989, a member of Senate since 2000, and a Senate Member of Court since 2011. In the 1990s, He worked for and later ran a series of externally-funded national computer-based initiatives, including the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for History, Archaeology and Art History and, as director, the TLTP History Software Consortium, a consortium of eighty UK institutions. From 2000-2001, he was director of the LTSN Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology. These management roles highlight his belief in the central importance of learning and teaching in the academy, and in 2011 he was honoured to receive a Teaching Excellence Award from the University. He also served as Head of the Department of History from 2005 to 2009.
In 1994 he was appointed as a Lecturer in Historical Computing, and is currently a Senior Lecturer, and teaches in both the School of Humanities and the School of Political and Social Sciences. As a historian, his research falls into two broad areas: the social history of early modern England; and the application of computers to historical research and teaching. He is author of The Church in Age of Danger (Cambridge, 2000), as well as of various articles on historical and methodological topics. In his computing role, he has a particular interest in the use of relational and XML databases. He is currently working on three research projects: on lay-clerical relations in Elizabethan England, scolding and gender relations, and the digitisation and analysis of Welsh Wills.
Professor Karen Lury
Theatre, Film & Television Studies
Karen is an elected member of Court from the Professoriate of the College of Arts. After completing her graduate studies at the University of Liverpool, she was first employed as a lecturer by the University of Glasgow in 1994 and is now Professor of Film and Television Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts. She is currently Head of Subject for Film and Television Studies and Research Convenor for the School. She has acted as Deputy Head of School and serves on the University’s Research Planning and Strategy Committee, the University wide Athena Swann Committee (an initiative driven by the Equality and Diversity Unit) and takes an active part in the cross College Arts and Social Sciences Women’s Mentoring Project. She is a member of the peer review college for the AHRC and has served as a panel member. Karen is also a long standing editor of the international film and television studies journal Screen which is housed by the University of Glasgow.
Karen’s research interests are broad ranging but her current activities concentrate on the representation and agency of children in both commercial and amateur media. Her most recent monograph was The Child in Film, published by I.B. Tauris/Rutgers University Press in 2010 and she is currently writing a joint authored monograph, Show and Tell: Children and Amateur Media for Edinburgh University Press with Dr. Ryan Shand. The research for this book originates from her AHRC funded project ‘Children and Amateur Media in Scotland 1927-2000’.
Dr Marie Freel
Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences
Dr Marie Freel was elected as a Senate Assessor in May 2012 and has been a member of Senate since 2011. She is a Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Endocrinologist at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. She received both undergraduate degrees from Glasgow University (BSc Honours 1996 and MBChB Honours 1999) and was awarded a PhD in 2006. In 2009, she was awarded a MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship for a programme of work entitled ‘Cardiovascular disease: investigating the expanding role of aldosterone.’ Her principal research interest is in the role of corticosteroids (particularly aldosterone) in hypertension and cardiovascular disease and clinical interests centre around endocrine hypertension and adrenal disease. She is based within the BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre and remains a member of the Blood Pressure Research Group.
Dr Freel is Deputy Postgraduate Convener within the Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences where she provides support to students undertaking postgraduate degrees by teaching or research and is also an Advisor of Studies to medical students. She co-ordinates undergraduate teaching of Endocrinology to the MB ChB as well as BN courses and is also directing the development of the Endocrinology curriculum in the revamped 2nd year MB ChB course planned for 2012. She has been elected as an Ordinary Member of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (2011) and was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in 2010. She is also an Ordinary Member of the British Hypertension Society and participates in the BHS Hypertension Masterclass programme delivering lectures on hypertension-related topics to clinical trainees throughout the UK. This year (2012-2013) she has also been elected as Honorary President of Glasgow University’s student Medico-Chirurgical Society.
Outwith Glasgow, she sits on the Editorial Board of Clinical Science, acts as grant reviewer for national charities such as Kidney Research UK and is the Glasgow representative on the National Scientific Advisory Committee for Tenovus, Scotland.
Dr Duncan Ross
Economic & Social History
I graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1984 and returned as an academic member of staff in 1996. I was elected as a member of Senate in 2011 and as a Senate assessor on Court in 2013. I have previously served as Head of the School of History and Archaeology and as Head of the Department (later Subject) of Economic and Social History. I have been a Council member (and Secretary-Treasurer) of the Association of Business Historians (UK) and Trustee of the Business History Conference (US). Between 2003 and 2009, I was Editor of Financial History Review. My research interests lie in two main fields – late 19th and 20th century banking and financial history of Britain and Europe and the post-1945 economic history of Scotland, including the impact of foreign direct investment and the rise and importance of renewable energy in the Scottish economy.
I have been a candidate for the Scottish National Party in Scottish, Westminster and European Parliamentary elections, am an elected member of the Party’s National Executive, and served as National Secretary 2006-2009.