Vice Principals
Neal Juster
Senior Vice-Principal and Deputy Vice-Chancellor
Neal Juster joined the University of Glasgow as the Vice-Principal (Strategy and Resources) in August 2007 and was appointed to the position of Senior Vice-Principal and Deputy Vice Chancellor in July 2013. In addition to deputizing for the Principal in his absence, Neal’s primary responsibilities are: to lead the development and implementation of the University’s strategic plan; to lead the annual planning cycle; and to prioritize the rolling 10 year £300m capital plan such that it aligns with academic strategy. He is currently leading a project to introduce new processes and procedures for academic career development and is also the University’s Gender Equality Champion.
Immediately prior to appointment to the University of Glasgow Neal was Pro Vice-Principal at the University of Strathclyde (2006-7). In this role he had strategic oversight of the academic requirements of the University Estate, the University’s Cultural Activity and the Office of Marketing and Communication (responsible for student recruitment, international activity, alumni relationships, external events, fund raising and development, advertising, web development and press releases).
Other academic appointments include Dean of the Faculty of Engineering (2002-6) and Head of Department in the Department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management (1997-2002), University of Strathclyde and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds (1988-97).
Neal received his BSc and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Leeds and is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE). He is a member, and past Chair, of the IMechE Academic Standards Committee, the committee responsible for accrediting relevant undergraduate degree programmes.
He is a Trustee of the University of Glasgow Trust, the University of Glasgow Pension Fund and the Yamaa Trust. He is also a Director of Glasgow University Holdings Limited.
Frank Coton
Vice-Principal for Learning & Teaching
Frank Coton is currently Vice-Principal (Learning and Teaching) and Professor of Low Speed Aerodynamics at the University of Glasgow where, until December 2009, he was Dean of the Faculty of Engineering. He is a past Chair of both the Scottish Deans of Science and Engineering and the Applied Aerodynamics Committee of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also currently a member of the West Regional Advisory Board of Scottish Enterprise.
He is a member of the University of Glasgow Senior Management Group and has responsibility for the development of educational policy and strategy and all teaching quality processes. He has direct line-management responsibility for the Director of the Learning and Teaching Centre which supports academic development, technology enhanced learning and teaching and student learning. He is also a member of the SFC Access and Inclusion Committee and is Chair of the West of Scotland Schools for Higher Education Programme Management Committee which coordinates widening participation activities in the West of Scotland.
Steve Beaumont
Vice-Principal for Research & Enterprise
Steven Beaumont was appointed Vice Principal for Research and Enterprise at the University of Glasgow in January 2005.
Professor Beaumont is responsible for the University’s research vision and strategy and their achievement. He also oversees all aspects of research administration and the transfer of the University’s intellectual assets to industry and the wider community through research contracts, consultancy, licensing and spinout formation.
His research background is in nanotechnology and nanoelectronics for which he was awarded the OBE in 2002. Before taking up his present position he was previously Head of Department of Electronics & Electrical Engineering and was the first Director of the Institute for System Level Integration. Professor Beaumont is Director of a number of University companies. He is a CEng, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) in 2000, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng) in July 2007.
John Briggs
Clerk of Senate & Vice Principal
John Briggs became Clerk of Senate and Vice Principal of the University on 1 August 2012. He is also Professor of Geography and Chair of the interdisciplinary Glasgow Centre for International Development (GCID) which co-ordinates and promotes the University of Glasgow's research activities in the area of international development, mainly with partners in African countries. In addition, he is the University of Glasgow's International Dean (Africa), with responsibility for overseeing the University's partnerships with African universities. His research interests are in poverty reduction in the poorer parts of the world, mainly Africa, and his most recent work is on understanding how local environmental knowledges are constructed and then used by small-scale farmers, primarily in rural Africa, to inform their livelihood strategies. He is a government advisor on international development and is a member of the UK’s Department for International Development's Research Advisory Group.
Murray Pittock
Vice-Principal and Head of College of Arts
Murray Pittock is Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Arts and Bradley Professor of English Literature. He has worked at the universities of Manchester (where he was the first professor of Scottish literature at an English university), Edinburgh, Oxford, Aberdeen and Strathclyde, and has held visiting appointments at the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, Charles University, Prague, Trinity College, Dublin, Auburn and Yale. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the English Association, the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Society of Arts and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland among other bodies. Murray's books are set on courses in English, History, Irish Studies, theology and politics in around twenty-five countries, and he has been awarded or shortlisted/nominated for a number of literary and historical prizes and prize lectureships: he is one of the few UK academics to be a prize lecturer of both the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy.
Murray has appeared in the UK and overseas media on over 350 occasions and regularly acts as a consultant.
Anna Dominiczak
Vice-Principal and
Head of College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences
Professor Anna Dominiczak is Regius Professor of Medicine, Vice Principal and Head of College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, the largest of four Colleges at the University of Glasgow. She is also an honorary consultant physician and non-executive member of the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health Board.
A graduate of the Medical School in Gdansk, Poland, she is one of the world’s leading cardiovascular scientists and clinical academics. She held a British Heart Foundation Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Glasgow between 1997 and 2010, as well as the directorship of the Cardiovascular Research Centre between 2000 and 2010. Her major research interests are in hypertension, cardiovascular genomics and systems medicine and her total research income in the last three years totals more than £30 million.
Prof Dominiczak is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the American Heart Association and the European Society of Cardiology as well as a member of the Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland, the European Society of Hypertension, the International Society of Hypertension, Society of Endocrinology, British Hypertension Society and British Cardiovascular Society. In 2012 she was invited to join the Council of the Academy of Medical Sciences and elected Vice President, Life Sciences of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
She is currently Vice President of the European Society of Hypertension, and a member of the Leadership Committee of the Council for High Blood Pressure Research of the American Heart Association. In addition to membership of several editorial boards, Professor Dominiczak has held several senior editorial positions and is currently Editor-in-Chief of Hypertension.
With more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals, and numerous scientific awards, her services to medicine were recognised by the Queen who awarded her with an OBE in 2005.
John Chapman
Vice-Principal and Head of College of Science & Engineering
Professor John Chapman is a Vice Principal, Head of the College of Science & Engineering and a full professor in the School of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Glasgow. He read Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and holds an MA and PhD from that University. Before moving to Glasgow he was a Research Fellow at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1990.
His research centres around advanced functional materials and nanoscience, with particular emphasis on high spatial resolution characterisation and property modification using electron and ion beams. His interest is stimulated by the new physics that emerges at ultra-small length scales. Whilst primarily a physicist, he collaborates extensively with materials scientists, chemists and electronic engineers. Most of his recent research has been devoted to the study of magnetic materials but he also pursues research into electronic materials & devices and particulate systems.
Within the UK Professor Chapman has served in many capacities for the research councils, most notably as a member of the EPSRC Council. Until recently he was the Chair of the Standing Committee of UK Professors of Physics. He has also had extensive involvement with government/industry interface bodies in the UK and has served on various evaluation boards in Europe. Throughout his career he has played an active role in learned societies including Institute of Physics, Royal Microscopical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In 2003/04 he was a distinguished lecturer for the Magnetics Society of the IEEE and until recently was a member of their Administrative Committee. In 2011 he was awarded a Fellowship of the IEEE.
Anne Anderson
Vice-Principal and Head of College of Social Sciences
Professor Anderson graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MA and then PhD in psychology. She began her academic career in 1979 as a Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She was appointed Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Glasgow in 1986 and Professor in 1997, while simultaneously holding the role of Economic and Social Research Council Research Programme Director from 1995 to 2006. In 2000, Professor Anderson was appointed Director of the Graduate School and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at Glasgow. Five years later she was promoted to Chair in the School of Business and Management and Deputy Dean Research in the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences. In 2006 she joined the University of Dundee to take up an appointment as Professor of Human Computer Interaction and Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Art & Design, Architecture, Engineering and Physical Sciences. She was appointed to the Council of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Council in 2008. She returned to Glasgow in 2010 as Vice-Principal and Head of the newly formed College of Social Sciences. The college which has over 500 staff and over 8000 students consists of the Adam Smith Business School, the School of Education, the School of Law, the School of Social and Political Sciences and the School of Interdisciplinary Studies based at our Dumfries Campus.
In 2002 Professor Anderson was awarded an OBE for services to social science.