Professor Mark Bradley
Professor Mark Bradley is the interim Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Student Experience, and Professor of Classics. Mark leads the University’s strategy to deliver an outstanding educational experience for every student in our community. Reporting directly to the Vice-Chancellor, and working across the University’s executive team, Mark is responsible for strategic leadership and oversight for policies and activities to enhance teaching, curriculum, and the broader student experience.
Prior to taking up the role of PVC on 1 August 2024, Mark was Associate Pro-Vice Chancellor for Teaching and Curriculum (2020-2024). His former roles include Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Student Experience in the Faculty of Arts (2015-2020), and Director of Postgraduate Studies in the School of Humanities (2012-2015).
Mark has a BA (Hons), MPhil and PhD in Classics from Cambridge University. He completed his PhD on concepts of colour in ancient Rome under the supervision of Mary Beard, and was appointed to a Lectureship in Ancient History at Nottingham in 2004.
In addition to establishing the University’s BA in Liberal Arts, Mark’s educational leadership activities include the development of a major new standardised assessment and feedback framework across the Faculty of Arts, enhancement of joint-honour student experience, and leadership of the University’s postgraduate taught provision and masters-level student experience.
He has also led work on the University’s new approach to student engagement and attendance monitoring, the rationalisation and professionalisation of student surveys, and the development of a new set of University Learning Spaces Design Guidelines, which provide a new benchmarked set of standards for teaching and learning spaces across our estate. In addition, he has provided academic leadership for digital learning enhancements, digital accessibility and inclusive teaching practice, and the University’s engagement with artificial intelligence technologies.
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Mark’s specialism is the cultural history and literature of Imperial Rome, and he has published widely on topics related to ancient sensory perception, particularly the role of colour and smell in classical antiquity, as well as Roman ideas about dirt, cleanliness and purity, and the reception of ancient Rome in modern British imperialism.
He has taught undergraduate and masters students, and supervised over twenty PhD students across the full range of Greek and Roman history, literature and visual culture.
As part of his Faculty leadership role from 2015 to 2020, Mark led on the establishment of the University’s successful Liberal Arts programme, as well as the creation and delivery of core skills modules for all Faculty of Arts masters students.