Role at UCLan

The Vice-Chancellor is the principal academic and administrative officer of the University and is responsible to the Chairman of the Governors.

As Vice-Chancellor, Graham is responsible for the leadership and management of the University within the principles laid down by the Board of Governors, of which he is an ex-officio member. Graham is supported by the Vice-Chancellor's Group, which includes the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, the Chief Officers and the Pro Vice-Chancellors.

Graham is a member of Universities UK, a director of the University Alliance and Deputy Chair of the University and College Employers Association.

Experience

Graham returned to UCLan after spending five years as the Vice-Chancellor of Solent University in Southampton.  During that time, the University opened an iconic learning and teaching building, a new indoor sports complex and industry-ready nursing and maritime simulation centres. The University also rose significantly in all major league tables, recorded its highest ever results for student satisfaction, employability and progression and was awarded TEF Silver.  This culminated in being shortlisted for the University of the Year 2019 in the Times Higher Education Awards.

Before joining Solent University as Vice-Chancellor, Graham worked as Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UCLan. He joined UCLan's Senior Management Team in 2003 and held posts as Dean of Academic Development and Director for Cumbria.

In 2007/08 Graham was seconded to work as the national skills research director for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority at Sellafield Limited.  In March 2008 he took up the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Skills and Employer Engagement) and was appointed as Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) from 1 January 2010 with overall responsibility for UCLan's academic and research activity.

Graham also worked closely with partner institutions, particularly in Hong Kong, China and the Middle East, and he received an Outstanding Foreign Expert Award from Hebei Province, China. During 2014 he was also appointed as Honorary Professor at Hebei University in Baoding, and in 2015 was appointed as a Visiting Professor by the National Academy for Education Administration, Beijing.

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Sport and Recreation Studies, Madeley School of Physical Education (now Staffordshire University).
• MSc Sports Science, Loughborough University.
• PhD Exercise Physiology, University of Wales, Bangor.
• PGCE, University of Wales.

Committee membership

• Board of Governors
• Chair: Academic Board
• Chair: Senior Management Team
• Chair: Confucius Institute

External bodies

• Deputy Chair: Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA).
• Director: University Alliance
• Member: Universities UK

Lynne is Deputy Vice-Chancellor for the University of Central Lancashire with responsibility for the academic portfolio. Previously Lynne was Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic and Dean of the Lancashire Law School at UCLan. Lynne is a Director on the LEP Skills and Employment Board in Lancashire and holds a number of other directorships.

Lynne has many years’ experience of curriculum development, quality assurance and enhancement of student experience across educational disciplines and in legal professional and academic education. She has been involved on panels as a chair or member reviewing quality and student experience in more than 30 international institutions and at many UK universities and colleges, as well as undertaking roles on various Boards of Governors. She is an Assessor of legal education provision for the legal professional bodies in England and Wales. She has participated in national working parties and groups to review and enhance education and policy.

Alongside her academic background, Lynne is a practising lawyer with expertise in Trusts and Property laws and has several years’ experience in private practice. She has a strong professional and academic interest in education law, equality and diversity law and in social issues around improvement of social mobility and access to justice. She has contributed as a key note speaker at several UK and international conferences and advisory meetings on these issues, including conferences organised with senior members of the Chinese Government to discuss proposals for Constitutional reform relating to equality and diversity in Chinese education.

Lynne has led several externally funded high value research projects, frequently working in collaboration with international partners. She has been involved in developing employer networks, industry Knowledge Transfer Partnerships and social enterprises to help to improve students’ employability and enterprise skills, their resilience and to raise their aspirations.

On a personal level, Lynne is strongly committed to the value of education in transforming lives.  Her personal values align with the University’s mission to deliver high quality learning for all with the potential to benefit regardless of their socio-economic starting point and background.

Current Responsibilities

• Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic)
• Academic portfolio

Lynne is a Member of the following UCLan Committees

• Vice-Chancellor's Group
• Academic Board
• Research and Innovation Committee
• Academic Standards and Quality Assurance Committee
• Course Planning Committee
• Harris Foundation Trust

Representation on External Bodies

• Preston Inc. Law Society
• Applied Policy Sciences Unit Board
• Lancashire LEP Skills and Employment Board
• Westlakes Research Limited
• Samuel Lindow Foundation
• Training 2000 Ltd
• UCLan Dental Clinic Ltd

Michael has extensive experience of designing and delivering strategic and operational change programmes both within business information systems and in a wider business context.  Michael has 10 years’ experience in technical and engineering roles and 15 years in strategic leadership roles. Michael led a positive period of recruitment growth whilst responsible for Marketing and Recruitment between 2013 and 2016, he then created and has responsibility for the new Student Services function, and has responsibility for the University Corporate Operations Service, Estates Team and Learning and Information Services.

Michael has led the creation and delivery of the £250m Masterplan since its inception. He is responsible for the creation and delivery of the University Regional Strategy and the University One Health Strategy.  Michael is Chair of the University One Health Board and the Academic and Business Enhancement Board. As part of his regional work Michael is Chair of the East Lancashire Project Group and represents the University on a range of key regional bodies and forums.

Prior to joining UCLan, Michael worked within Bolton Metro (Leisure) as IT & Support Services Manager where he was responsible for creating and establishing the organisation’s IT Services and delivered their first IT infrastructure based on distributed LANs.

Prior to this, Michael worked for Bass Brewers as Head of Production Services where he was responsible for leading and managing the deployment of large production systems at some of Europe’s largest brewing, productions and distribution plants.

Before joining Bass Brewers Michael worked for British Gas North Western, originally in Customer Services before moving onto Productivity Services.

Current responsibilities

Executive Lead for:

• The University Masterplan
• Regional Strategy
• One Health Strategy
• Corporate Operations
• Estates Services
• Student Services
• Learning and Information Services

Membership:

• Vice-Chancellor's Group
• Centralan Holdings Ltd Board
• Death in Service Trustee
• Honorary Awards Committee
• Masterplan Programme Board
• Safety, Health and Environment Committee

Ken joined the University in August 2016. He is responsible for ensuring that the University offers a professional, flexible and innovative Human Resources function with responsibility for staff recruitment, administration, engagement and development. His role involves driving the organisational development and culture change to underpin the realisation of the University Strategy.

Ken, who originally hails from Burnley, was HR Director of BBC North from 2008-2016. He oversaw the corporation’s HR agenda during and after the £200m implementation of the new BBC North organisation including the migration of staff to the Media City location and the development of a new creative and collaborative culture. Prior to this he held senior Human Resources and Organisational Development roles at British Aerospace, Halifax and HBOS.

Ken graduated from the University of Oxford with a First Class Honours Degree in Jurisprudence (Law and Philosophy).

Current responsibilities

• Staff recruitment
• Staff development and engagement
• Reward and recognition
• HR service and administration

Committee membership

• Vice-Chancellor's Group
• Staff Experience Steering Group

Ian joined the University in September 2014. Prior to his appointment Ian was the County Secretary and Solicitor at Lancashire County Council. In addition to being the Chief Legal and Governance Adviser to the County Council Ian also played a major role in creating and supporting a wide range of partnerships and joint ventures including a number of limited companies such as the Lancashire Economic Partnership, Lancashire County Enterprise Limited and Marketing Lancashire. Ian is Secretary and Legal Advisor to the University Board and Company Secretary to the majority of the University’s subsidiary companies. He also heads up a significantly enhanced Legal and Governance team and is a member of the University’s Executive Management Team.

Current Responsibilities

• Corporate Governance
• The provision and procurement of legal advice to the University and its Companies
• Internal Audit and Risk Management
• Oversight of Innovation and Enterprise activity

Ian is Secretary of the University Board and its Committees and Secretary of the University’s various subsidiary Companies.

Ian is a Member of the Vice-Chancellor's Group.

Andrew joined the University in September 2013 as the Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication. In 2014 he was appointed to the position of Executive Dean as the University restructured into Faculties. He then led the Faculty of Culture and the Creative Industries for four years; in that time it won the Times Higher Education Award for Excellence and Innovation in the Arts and Professor Lubaina Himid CBE won the prestigious Turner Prize among other highlights. In March 2018 Andrew was promoted to a new Pro Vice-Chancellor role to provide strategic cross-institutional leadership and vision for the digital and creative industries, overseeing the Faculty of Culture and the Creative Industries and the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Prior to working at the University of Central Lancashire, Andrew worked in the broadcast industry and held a number of academic posts in television production before moving into academic management in the Media School at Bournemouth University. He became a National Teaching Fellow in 2004 for his HEFCE-funded work in group work assessment in media practice.  His research interests include broadcast historiography and re-enactment techniques.

Andrew graduated from Bournemouth University with an Honours degree in Media Production. He achieved a SEDA accredited PG Cert in Professional Development and was awarded a PhD in 2012 entitled Conditions of Time and Space: A Re-enactment Experiment with the British TV Series Doctor Who.

Current Responsibilities

• Strategic academic leadership of digital, creative industries and innovation
• Developing a Digital and Innovation Strategy
• Providing strategic oversight of the Institution’s response to the Knowledge Exchange Framework  (KEF)

Committee Membership

• Academic Board
• Vice-Chancellor's Group
• Research and Innovation Committee

Representation on External Bodies

• Member of the HE Academy
• National Teaching Fellow
• In4.0 Board Member
• Member of the Harris Capital Project Steering Group

Professor Crean was appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor (Clinical and Health) in July 2017. From April 2018 he assumed oversight for Research. He previously served the University in a number of senior academic roles including Executive Dean of the Faculty of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, Director of Dental Research and Knowledge Transfer, and Dean of the School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education.

In his current role, Professor Crean is responsible for building productive networks and relationships with key stakeholders to ensure that the University is well positioned to implement new and innovative opportunities in clinical health business, education and research. By building on the outstanding reputation of the University’s dentistry, medical, nursing and pharmacy programmes, he is ensuring that the University is able to play a major role in combating health inequalities and fostering an integrated approach to the provision of health and care across the North West.

StJohn gained a Bachelor’s degree in Dental Surgery (BDS) from University College London in 1981 before attaining an MB BS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) from University College London and Middlesex School of Medicine in 1992. He later gained a PhD from the University of London in 2000 and a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education from the University of Cambridge. He is currently studying an LLM (Medical Ethics and Law) with the University of Edinburgh.

Beyond the University, StJohn is an Honorary Consultant at East Lancashire Hospital Trust and the University of Morecambe Bay Hospitals Foundation Trust. He is currently the Robert Bradlaw advisor in the Faculty of Dental Surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and Editor-in-Chief of the Faculty Dental Journal (FDJ). He has held the posts of President of the North West Branch of the British Dental Association and Chairman of the Fylde Section.

His ongoing research interests include the safe management of medicalised patients in dentistry and the role of oral bacteria in systemic disease, with a focus on neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.  He has over 100 peer reviewed publications and receives regular invitations to speak to learned societies and conferences.

Current Responsibilities

Responsible for building productive networks and relationships with key stakeholders in order to ensure that the University is able to implement new and innovative opportunities in clinical health business, education and research. He will support the Vice-Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor's Group by leading the University's continued growth and development of its provision in these areas with support from the Executive Deans.

Committee Membership

• Academic and Business Enhancement Board (ABEB)
• Academic Board (AB)
• Academic Leadership Group (ALG)
• College of Professors and Readers Committee (CPRC)
• Degree Apprenticeship Steering Group
• Distinguished Collaborator Programme
• EIC academic group
• Ethics and Integrity Committee (EIC)
• Honorary Academic Awards Committee
• National Centre for Remote and Rural Medicine (NCRRM)
• One Health Leadership Group
• One Health Strategy Group
• Vice-Chancellor's Group (VCG)
• Space Strategy Group
• UCLan Hong Kong
• UCLan Technology Shenzhen
• University Business Services Limited (UBSL)
• University Mental Health 5-year Strategy Group
• Westlakes Research Limited (WRL)

Research

• Animal Welfare and Ethics Review Board (AWERB)
• Environment Working Group (Chair)
• Human Tissue Working Group - HTWG
• Peer review, Faculty of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences.
• PVC Research Strategy Group
• REF Equality and Diversity Subpanel
• REF Steering Group
• Research and Innovation Committee – Cyprus (RICC)
• Research Governance IRAS review panel
• University Research and Innovation Committee

External

• Academic Health Science Network (AHSN)
• AKS Local Governing Body
• AUC
• BDA (Fylde section) and NW Branch Council
• Blackburn and Darwen Borough Council – Employment and Skills
• Copeland Borough Council – Future Opportunities in Copeland Group
• Dalton Cumbrian Facility – RAMP
• East Lancashire Hospital Trust
  • ELHT/UCLan Strategic Board
  • University Status Task Group
  • Research and Development Strategic Group
• Healthier Lancashire
  • CCIO-CIO Board
  • Digital Health Board
  • ICS Partnership Forum
  • Work Force and Skills Development for Healthier Lancashire
• Innovation Agency -Partnership Board
• Lancashire Digital First Primary Care.
• Lancashire Teaching Hospital - Quarterly UCLan/LTHTR
• LLS UTC Governor
• Myerscough Strategic Development Group
• Northern Health Science Alliance(NHSA) Associate Member/UCLan Representative
• Northern Schools Trust - UTC LLS Trust Governor
• Recovery College, Lancashire Care Foundation Trust
• Research and Education Committee – Alder Hey
• Royal College of Surgeons England Faculty of Dental Surgery FDJ Editorial Board
• Royal College of Surgeons England Faculty of Dental Surgery Postgraduate Committee
• Samuel Lindow Research Ltd Board
• Sellafield Sites – Education Opportunities Board
• St. Catherine’s Strategic Development Group
• University Alliance – R&I Network
• West Lakes Multi - Academy Trust Board

Representation on External Bodies

• General Association of Dental (and Medical) Educators in Europe, (ADEE, AMEE)
• Home Office – Establishment License Holder

Ebrahim has been Provost for UCLan’s Burnley campus since 2017.  However, his relationship with UCLan is a long-standing one and he has held a number of positions including Senior Lecturer, Ambassador for Students, and Strategic Coordinator for Student Retention, amongst others, since 1997.  During this period he has also served as a member of the University Board and the Board’s Nominations Committee.

As the Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Student Experience) at the University of Bolton, Ebrahim had responsibility for student retention and satisfaction and the TIRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre.  His research interests continue to focus on key dimensions of the student experience.

Ebrahim has a growing public profile as the Deputy Leader of Bolton Council and is closely involved in the Northern Powerhouse project through his association with the Greater Manchester Combined Authority where he serves as the Deputy for Economy and Internationalisation.  He is also a Board Member of the Growth Company, a member of the GM Growth Board and a shareholder of the Manchester Airport Group.

Ebrahim has served at a national level on the UK Government’s Commission on Integration and Cohesion and has worked as an Independent Expert Adviser to the Audit Commission.

Current Responsibilities

• Responsibility for all aspects of the University's Campus in Burnley
• Chair – University Ethics and Integrity Committee
• Vice-Chancellor’s Nominee – Student Complaints

Committee Membership

• Vice-Chancellor's Group
• Academic Board
• Academic Leadership Group
• Student Experience Committee
• Research and Innovation Committee
• ASQAC
• Learning and Teaching Strategy Senior Programme Board
• National Student Survey Working Group
• (Chair) Burnley Campus Operational Group

Representation on External Bodies

• East Lancashire Strategic Steering Group
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

George joined the University in February 2018 as Interim Deputy Finance Director (FP&A) and was recruited as Chief Finance Officer in December 2019. He is responsible for strategic leadership over the University’s financial management ensuring its financial sustainability.

George has over 20 years’ experience of providing effective financial management in large, complex and multinational organisations. Before joining UCLan he was the Director of Finance (FP&A) at Ingeus, a leading global provider of employment and training services. He then set up his own financial consultancy to provide commercial expertise to both private and public sector companies.

George is a graduate of Oxford Brookes University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Current responsibilities

• Ensuring effective governance and controls over the University’s financial operations, including the setting and monitoring of departmental budgets.
• Managing the University’s purchasing activities in order to deliver legal compliance and value for money.
• Ensuring that appropriate financial information systems, policies and procedures are robust and fit for purpose.
• Ensuring the efficient use of the University's financial, physical and intellectual assets in support of its investment plans.

Committee membership

• Vice-Chancellor’s Group
• Death in Service Trustee
• Lancashire Forensic Science Academy Strategy Group
• Treasury Management Group
• Fraud Response Group

Board Member

• Centralan Holdings Limited
• UCLan Overseas Limited
• UCLan Cyprus Limited
• UCLan CY IPS Limited