UNIVERSITY EXECUTIVE TEAM
Professor Nic Beech Vice-Chancellor
Sean Wellington Professor
Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Provost
Carole-Anne Upton Professor
Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Knowledge Exchange and Engagement
James Kennedy
Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Mark Holton
Chief Officer for People and Culture
Sophie Bowen
Chief Officer for Students and University Registrar
PROFESSOR NIC BEECH Vice-Chancellor
Nic is Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University. He has held a range of senior higher education leadership roles including Vice-Principal of the University of St Andrews and Provost of the University of Dundee. He is President of the British Academy of Management, Honorary Treasurer of the Academy of Social Sciences, Chair of Access HE, and a board member of London Higher, the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Race Network.
His academic background is in business and management and his research focuses on identity, diversity, change leadership and learning. Nic’s work has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), EU, CMI, NHS, Nesta and industry partners and he was Lead Fellow of the ESRC Advanced Institute of Management. Nic’s eight books include Managing Creativity (Cambridge, 2010), Organising Music (Cambridge, 2015) and Managing Change (Cambridge, 2017) and his co-authored book Impact in Business and Management Research was published by Routledge in 2021.
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Nic has worked extensively with industry and over the last decade has focused on change and innovation in creative industries and the health service. With a focus on engaged research, he also led the national academic input to the current Scottish Cultural Strategy, chaired the pan-Scotland entrepreneurial Scale Up centre and chaired the Scottish Institute for Policing Research. Nic is currently working on methods of impactful engagement between practice, policy and academia.
Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are foundational values and outcomes across all Nic’s work and he was an early adopter of EDI into mainstream business education in the early 1990s and championed this through his roles in accrediting bodies such as the Association of MBAs. Nic is a participant in Universities UK’s (UUK) ‘Stepchange: Mentally Healthy Universities’ leadership programme which focuses on a whole University approach to mental health. Nic is also working with UUK to lead a programme of work on tackling problematic substance use in the UK sector and in national and global policy making.
Middlesex University
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