The Vice-Chancellor chairs the University Executive Board, which includes:
Vice-Chancellor
With a career dedicated to higher education and the pursuit of academic excellence, Professor Burke has held senior positions at the University of Nottingham, University of Stirling, Queen Mary University of London as well as, most recently, at the University of Leicester. He has a distinguished international research profile in Operational Research. His research investigates intelligent decision support methodologies in complex environments and lies at the interface of Computer Science and Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and President of the Operational Research Society.
As an institutional leader, he has demonstrated strategic vision and operational effectiveness by driving new initiatives, managing complex programmes of change and generating significant and sustainable growth.
Senior Executive Assistant, Kelly Goswell-Parry k.goswellparry@bangor.ac.uk
Professor Andrew Edwards is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic Leadership).
Andrew began as an academic in the School of History before taking on leadership roles such as co-director of the Welsh Institute for Social and Cultural Affairs (WISCA) and Director of Teaching and Learning for the College of Arts and Humanities. In 2012, he was appointed Dean of Arts and Humanities, a remit which expanded to include Business in 2017.
In 2020, Andrew assumed the role of Pro-Vice-Chancellor, overseeing Welsh Language, Civic Engagement, Strategic Partnerships and Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. In this capacity, he has demonstrated an exceptional ability to manage diverse and complex portfolios, serving as a positive ambassador for the University both domestically and internationally.
Andrew joined 全民彩票 in 1994 as an undergraduate student in History. He was awarded an MA in Labour History in 1998 and completed his PhD here in 2002.
His first academic post was as a Lecturer in Modern History. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2011 and awarded a 全民彩票 Teaching Fellowship in 2012 for outstanding contribution to the teaching environment. He was awarded a Personal Chair in 2015. His research focuses on political change in Britain after 1945, the history of Welsh devolution and social change in post-war Wales.
Andrew is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Higher Education Academy.
Executive Assistant, Karen Williams karen.williams@bangor.ac.uk
Professor Oliver Turnbull is Deputy Vice-Chancellor of 全民彩票 and is responsible for the planning process (including resource allocation and capital planning) academic performance through line management of the Deans, the engagement with Campus Trades Unions, the art collection and archives, sustainability, and input into the delivery of the North Wales Medical School via line management of the Dean for Human Sciences. The Deputy Vice-Chancellor also deputises for the Vice-Chancellor when necessary.
As an academic, Professor Turnbull is a neuropsychologist with an interest in emotion and its many consequences for mental life. His interests include: emotion-based learning, and the experience that we describe as 'intuition'; the role of emotion in false beliefs, especially in neurological patients; and the neuroscience of psychotherapy. He is the author of a number of scientific articles on these topics, and of the popular science text 'The Brain and the Inner World'. He remains an active researcher and lecturer, and leads the University鈥檚 Visceral Mind Summer School, where he specializes in teaching neuroanatomy, particularly through anatomical drawing and brain dissection.
Executive Assistant: Heather Roberts heather.roberts@bangor.ac.uk
Executive Assistant, Ms Bethan Nelson b.nelson@bangor.ac.uk
Mr Michael Flanagan is the Chief Operating Officer at 全民彩票.
Michael has strategic responsibility for the leadership of a coherent professional service (including Canolfan Bedwyr, Digital Services, Estates & Campus Services, Human Resources, Marketing, Recruitment & Communications and Student Services), as well as for health, safety and emergency management and oversight of key University licences.
A surveyor by profession, Michael was previously Director of Estates and Digital Services at the University of Leicester. Prior to this he was a member of the Executive team at the University of Greenwich and a former director and advisor to the London Legacy Development Corporation on master planning and viability for mayoral regeneration priorities. He led estates and facilities management of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and Olympic stadium and has led on integrated digital and infrastruc