Tuesday, 25 June 2024
Dear colleagues,
After seven years as President and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Nottingham, Professor Shearer West will be stepping down from her position to become the new Vice-Chancellor & President at the University of Leeds in November 2024.
Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Jane Norman will become interim from 1 November.
Following the decision to appoint a new Vice-Chancellor in summer 2025, Council, the University’s governing body, has already commenced a process to identify Professor West’s successor for the University of Nottingham.
Council has hugely valued the opportunity to support Shearer in her many successful endeavours, both within the University, the city and across the region. Her contributions will be recognised and appreciated widely.
We will continue to build on the foundations she has laid over the past seven years and on Shearer's vision for a global university that is fit for the future.
We will, I am sure, all congratulate Shearer on her new appointment and wish her every success in this next phase of her career.
Best wishes,
Sir Keith O’Nions, Chair of Council on behalf of Council
Faith Pring - Media Relations Manager
Email: faith.pring@nottingham.ac.uk
Phone: 0115 748 4411
Location: University of Nottingham, University Park
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About the University of Nottingham
Ranked 32 in Europe and 16th in the UK by the QS World University Rankings: Europe 2024, the University of Nottingham is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities. Studying at the University of Nottingham is a life-changing experience, and we pride ourselves on unlocking the potential of our students. We have a pioneering spirit, expressed in the vision of our founder Sir Jesse Boot, which has seen us lead the way in establishing campuses in China and Malaysia - part of a globally connected network of education, research and industrial engagement.
Nottingham was crowned Sports University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024 – the third time it has been given the honour since 2018 – and by the Daily Mail University Guide 2024.
The university is among the best universities in the UK for the strength of our research, positioned seventh for research power in the UK according to REF 2021. The birthplace of discoveries such as MRI and ibuprofen, our innovations transform lives and tackle global problems such as sustainable food supplies, ending modern slavery, developing greener transport, and reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
The university is a major employer and industry partner - locally and globally - and our graduates are the second most targeted by the UK's top employers, according to The Graduate Market in 2022 report by High Fliers Research.
We lead the Universities for Nottingham initiative, in partnership with Nottingham Trent University, a pioneering collaboration between the city’s two world-class institutions to improve levels of prosperity, opportunity, sustainability, health and wellbeing for residents in the city and region we are proud to call home.
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