INSPIRING SPIRITED CHALLENGING CHAIR IN GEOMECHANICS APPOINTMENT DETAILS CHALLENGING AMBITIOUS INSPIRING SPIRITED CHALLENGING AMBITIOUS SPIRITED THANK YOU FOR YOUR CHALLENGING INTEREST IN THE ROLE OF AMBITIOUS CHAIR IN GEOMECHANICS The University of is one of the Building on Liverpool’s significant achievements UK’s leading research institutions and is as a research powerhouse, you will be an INSPIRING ranked in the top 1% of higher education exceptional professional joining our community institutions worldwide. of 5,500 talented staff, including 1,300 researchers, and 22,000 campus-based and With an annual turnover of £465 million, including online students. £89 million for research, Liverpool is the original ‘redbrick’ university and a member of the The University community wishes to build on the prestigious , which comprises the progress made over the last 10 years and is keen leading research universities in the UK. to seize the opportunity and challenge of taking this great institution into the world’s top 100. With our Vice-Chancellor, Professor Janet Beer, the University is entering an exciting new era as The successful applicant will join an innovative we strive to maintain and enhance our dynamic University that is passionate about inspiring reputation and performance in a rapidly evolving people to learn and achieve, that celebrates higher education environment. In order to help individuality and ingenuity, energy and us achieve our ambitions, we are seeking to enterprise, and is committed to enhancing both appoint a new Chair in Geomechanics. the student experience and our research excellence. We look forward to hearing from you.

2 Our university is a great place to work! As a university at the heart of the Liverpool city region, our culture of support and OUR collaboration influences and benefits the communities in which we operate, both at home and overseas, and the VISION institution is a major contributor to the regional economy. We aim to give our staff and students the best intellectual, As a distinguished 21st century social and physical environment to research, teach, and university, we have a global reach learn in, at the cutting edge of their disciplines, and with and influence that reflects our award-winning, world-class facilities. academic heritage as one of the UK’s Liverpool graduates are global citizens, benefiting from an largest civic institutions. international curriculum and experience, empowered to A strong infrastructure supports academic address global challenges and with opportunities to study endeavour and teaching prowess, while at our partner institution in China. We work hard to ensure research excellence, focusing on the our students form a relationship with the University that they advancement of human knowledge, will want to continue throughout their lives. underpins all our activities. As a research-intensive Russell Group university with a tradition and reputation for excellence, we are currently defining a new Strategic Plan for 2016-2026. We believe this is an exceptional university with an exceptional story to tell. And with an international network of partners, our impact is being felt all over the world.

3 We are committed to ensuring that we offer a truly world-class student OUR experience, investing £600 million in our teaching, research and residential UNIVERSITY estate over a 10-year period, including £250 million in high-quality accommodation, both on-campus and off-campus at our residential site in South Liverpool, where we are currently developing a self-contained Student Village which will include catering and sports facilities. Following investment of £25 million in state-of-the-art centralised Established in 1881, Liverpool teaching laboratories, the teaching is the original ‘redbrick’ university – environment for science-based subjects the term inspired by our iconic is amongst the best in the Victoria Building. UK. Our new facilities have enhanced the overall student experience Our mission is: ‘for the advancement of learning through the creation of a modern, high- and ennoblement of life’ and we are proud to offer quality and vibrant laboratory an intellectual environment where teaching and environment. Supporting learning takes place at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary science, the disciplines and is driven by research excellence. laboratories are a new innovation in the One of the great civic universities, founded by HE sector and are transforming Liverpool’s leading 19th century philanthropists teaching in the physical sciences and steeped in history and culture, our modern, including Physics, Chemistry, 100-acre campus is situated in the heart of Environmental Sciences and Liverpool's Knowledge Quarter – a hub for Archaeology. university and business collaboration – and is a short walk from the city centre. We also have a campus at Leahurst on the Wirral, 12 miles from the main campus, where our School of Veterinary AMBITIOUS INSPIRING SPIRITED CHALLENGING Science is located. The Leahurst site has two working farms, a world-leading Equine hospital, and a Small Animal Teaching Hospital, providing fantastic teaching opportunities for our students and the best animal care for our clients. 4 ENGAGING IN GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH

A member of the Russell Group of 24 UK We focus our academic efforts around seven research-led universities, we have a long tradition research themes representing the 'great of pursuing novel interdisciplinary research that grand challenges' faced by mankind: has a tangible impact on people, places, policies and the planet. • Changing Cultures Associated with no fewer than nine Nobel • Global Health Laureates, the University is recognised for • Living with Environmental Change its high-quality research, with more than half of our staff ranked world-leading or • Materials for the Future internationally excellent. • Personalised Health Our research collaborations extend worldwide, • Security and Conflict bringing together academics, many of whom are • Sustainable Energy. internationally-renowned, from across our three Faculties of Health and Life Sciences, Science and We have invested significantly in staff, resources Engineering, and Humanities and Social Sciences and cognate groupings in order to improve our to conduct research that addresses some of the research performance and this has helped to most pressing global challenges. achieve a marked improvement in the number of Liverpool is one of only three UK institutions to Research Council awards we are receiving. But we offer the full range of clinical subjects. We prioritise need more. We have also improved our joined-up thinking across the spectrum of collaboration with colleagues in the N8 group of scientific discovery, clinical research and high performing Northern universities, the NHS, healthcare provision in pursuit of safe, effective and industry, as well as cultural partners, in order therapies and practice to make life better for to strengthen our position within the sector. patients and professionals.

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6 SPIRITED CHALLENGING THE SCHOOL OF AMBITIOUS ENGINEERING The School of Engineering is one of four schools These Centres are: The is a member of the INSPIRING within the Faculty of Science and Engineering, Centre for Materials and Structures – Athena SWAN Charter to promote women in which is led by the Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor Centre Director: Professor Yuyuan Zhao Science, Engineering and Technology and holds Professor Ken Badcock. The School has a University Bronze Athena SWAN award and is Centre for Engineering Dynamics – SPIRITED benefited from substantial investment in the past working towards an application for Silver Athena Centre Director: Professor Rob Poole decade, leaving it well placed to build on its SWAN status.The School of Engineering has current healthy position. In 2005, the last of Centre for Engineering Sustainability – recently been awarded its own Bronze Athena several departmental mergers was completed to Centre Director: Dr Steve Jones SWAN award. The School of EngineerCing is HALLENGING form what constitutes the current School, The Centre Directors are usually appointed from committed to providing organisational and integrating the disciplines of aerospace, civil, among the Professors, Readers and Senior cultural practices that promote gender equality in materials science and mechanical engineering. Lecturers in the School, on the recommendation science, engineering and technolog and create a From 2005-2008 the School infrastructure of a Selection Committee. The appointments are better working environment for both men and underwent a £36 million refurbishment, creating normally for a period of three years with the women. Job applications are particularly welcome outstanding facilities for teaching and research. possibility of re-appointment. from women and ethnic minority candidates, who From 2003, the degree programmes have been The Centres bring together staff from across the are under-represented in academic posts in the continuously refreshed to emphasise new ‘active School in areas that have significant research School. learning’ approaches to teaching and learning, activity and potential for further development. For further information on the School of professional skills and industrial engagement, Each of the Centres provides support for the Engineering, please visit the website at: reinforced through membership of the major degree programmes in the School www.liverpool.ac.uk/engineering . international CDIO consortium (cdio.org). (Aerospace Engineering, Civil Engineering, The School of Engineering currently has over 55 Mechanical Engineering and the newly created academic staff (expanding by 2018 to 70 staff), Industrial Design). The new post will reside within around 1100 undergraduate students, 100 PGT the Centre for Engineering Sustainability. students and 120 PGR students. Led by Professor The School Management Committee is Ahmed Elsheikh, the School is organised into responsible for resource decisions in the School three research-oriented Centres, equivalent to and consists of the Head of School, the Centre Departments in the University structure. Directors, the Chair of the Board of Studies, the Director of Research, and the School Manager.

7 SPIRITED CHALLENGING CENTRE FOR AMBITIOUS ENGINEERING SUSTAINABILITY The Centre for Engineering The University and the School of Sustainable Structures Smart Materials and Infrastructure INSPIRING Sustainability brings together Engineering are focusing considerable Research in this cluster integrates a This new research cluster draws on academics with various engineering investment in Engineering Sustainability range of expertise in structural expertise in sustainable construction backgrounds including civil, geo- and are actively seeking to expand the composites, structural response to materials, for example compressed SPIRITED environmental, structural and research team of the Centre. The new vibration, cable-stayed structures, wood laminates, as well as an architectural engineering as well as risk Chair will play a key role providing Bayesian modelling of structural established research group in highway modelling, industrial design and research leadership through example dynamics, and structural performance and pavement materials which has a sustainable manufacturing. Together and experience and supporting under blast and impact. Liverpool has a track-record in dCevelopmHent and Atesting LLENGING with partners in engineering, natural strategies for growth of research income long track-record in this area, which is of low-density, permeable, and high- sciences and humanities disciplines and outputs among more junior undergoing an exciting reinvigoration durability asphalts using recycled across the University, academics in the colleagues throughout the Centre. that includes the launch of a major new materials. The strategic plan for this Centre collaborate to address some of undergraduate programme in cluster will build on this foundation to The Centre for Engineering the major global challenges of the 21st Architectural Engineering and research develop new collaborations across the Sustainability has recently undergone a century. Our research reflects the need collaborations with universities across School and wider university in rapidly- reorganisation as part of a strategic plan for engineering science and technology the UK and in the Far East, as well as growing areas of advanced materials, which looks towards REF2020, the to underpin our response to urgent industrial partners at Arup. Together with technology-enhanced urban emerging Teaching Excellence problems such as environmental Water and Environment, this cluster is infrastructure, nuclear science and Framework, and the University’s change, declining natural resources and taking a lead role in a new cross-Faculty engineering and enhanced sustainable institutional Strategy 2026. Academics the demand for renewable energy. research network around Sustainable urban drainage systems. are organised into thematic clusters Considering natural, environmental, and Resilient Cities. responsible for both research and societal, financial and other risks and teaching, in the following areas: hazards in this context provides a strong connection to the Liverpool Institute for Risk and Uncertainty.

8 CENTRE FOR ENGINEERING SUSTAINABILITY (CONTINUED) Geomechanics and Geomatics School to fund an additional two staff (UK) and semi-arid (Jordan) exciting links to the Virtual Engineering The new Chair will take the lead in positions in this area, following environments; flow, transport and Centre at Daresbury as well as robust developing the strategic vision for this appointment of the Chair, presents an filtration of colloidal contaminants in models for engineering design that under-represented but crucial area of outstanding opportunity to grow this porous media; and multi-scale benefit pedagogy and research across research and teaching in the Centre. exciting potential into a substantial, modelling and experimental validation of the range of disciplines represented in Existing academic expertise in this area influential academic unit. sustainable urban drainage systems. the Centre for Engineering Sustainability. interfaces with Water and Environment Water and Environment Industrial Design and Smart Materials and Infrastructure, This cluster draws on Liverpool’s long Industrial Design has strong roots in our and includes biomineralization for and prestigious history of coastal and world-renowned research groups in strengthening of porous media, marine maritime engineering research, which materials, manufacturing and virtual sediment geomechanics, remote has played a significant role in the engineering, but has seen a rapid sensing and topographic data development of advanced coastal flood expansion in the Centre for Engineering uncertainty, together with a very strong warning systems currently in use by the Sustainability associated with the growth base of professional experience in site UK Environment Agency, and provision of teaching programmes in Product investigation and foundation design via of underpinning science and Design and Industrial Design delivered visiting staff from Arup. There is a strong engineering to the ongoing across the University’s campuses in support structure in the wider University, development of tidal energy particularly Liverpool, London and Suzhou, China including potential linkages with leading around the Irish Sea basin. Current (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University). A academics in Earth Sciences, expertise, applied to both terrestrial and team of five design academics has been Geography and Planning, Maths, marine environments, focuses on added to the Centre since 2014, with Physics and the NERC National numerical modelling of unsteady flows specialisms including design for Oceanography Centre. Facilitating these and sediment/debris transport using emotion and well-being, design for links is the Institute for Risk and Lattice-Boltzmann and finite-element interaction, digitalisation, virtual reality Uncertainty, to which academics in this approaches; the development and and multisensorial design which cluster contribute via PhD projects testing of catchment-scale hydrological complement existing strengths in design sponsored by the EPSRC Centre for models in support of nutrient and for sustainability and engineering Doctoral Training in Risk and erosion management in both temperate management. This cluster brings Uncertainty. The commitment by the

9 SPIRITED CHALLENGING LIVERPOOL INSTITUTE AMBITIOUS FOR RISK AND UNCERTAINTY The Liverpool Institute for Risk and modelling, socio-political harm control, forward and inverse problems, research opportunities across INSPIRING Uncertainty (LIRU) was founded in 2012 reduction, and critical incident model updating, imprecise probabilities, disciplines where nonlinear, complex at the University of Liverpool as a multi- management. structural health modelling and damage and high-uncertainty heterogeneous disciplinary, large-scale Research assessment. This work is based on systems occur. Translating risk and uncertainty into SPIRITED Institute. In 2015, LIRU moved into new, comprehensive risk and uncertainty robust design Engineering applications purpose-built facilities in the Chadwick quantification methods developed in- Using LIRU’s expertise in risk and The EPSRC CDT is entering its third Building at the heart of the Liverpool house. These use probabilistic, interval uncertainty quantification, our year. Recent projects developed within campus. It combines expertise in and fuzzy methods, often combined CHALLENGING academics provide underpinning LIRU include: quantifying, managing and mitigating with imprecise probabilities techniques. science in collaboration with industry risk and uncertainty from more than ten • prediction of scour around wind partners to create sustainable, smart The Institute focuses especially on disciplines across the University turbine foundations in offshore and robust engineering solutions that mitigating critical threats to engineering including architecture, engineering, environments; address the uncertainties which arise in performance, such as those presented environmental sciences, the Institute for engineering design. The Institute helps by natural and technical hazards, • uncertainties in flood risk modelling – Infection and Global Health, financial organisations in many fields to model extreme events and human error. To do nonlinear effects of evolving channel and actuarial mathematics, computer and measure uncertainties, in order to this it brings together these risk forms; science, electrical engineering, achieve the reliability and safety modellers and theoreticians with • multi-agency risk communication in economics and finance, management, standards they need in their engineering scientists and engineers in mechanical, major incidents; social sciences, psychology and law. systems, materials and components. structural and environmental • stigmergy-based mapping of indoor The unifying focus is the comprehensive Solutions are based on strong practical engineering, environmental sciences, hazardous environments; understanding of uncertainties and experience of the engineering life cycle, physics and other applied disciplines, in associated risks as key issues in the • reinforced concrete response to near- as well as powerful techniques, such as close partnership with industry performance assessment of complex field explosions; stochastic mechanics, probabilistic, collaborators. The result, as evidenced systems, and in the development of interval and fuzzy methods, and multi- by the award of the only sole-institution • efficient and energy-aware software proper mitigation strategies. With strong scale / multi-physics modelling. EPSRC CDT currently active in the UK, for stochastic analysis on large-scale ties to industry, applications are pursued is innovative, highly multi-disciplinary systems. in a wide range of areas such as Engineering specialisms and industry-focused research projects building design, climate change The engineering group at LIRU is expert which benefit from cross-fertilisation of analysis, reliability engineering, software in fields such as stochastics modelling ideas and concepts and stimulation of reliability, material science, financial and testing, system identification and

10 SPIRITED CHALLENGING THE ROLE AMBITIOUS Following both internal and external consultation The appointee will be a recognised INSPIRING with relevant authorities, the Faculty and School geomechanics specialist with a leadership has identified the establishment of civil/environmental engineering background and research activity (and associated education with comprehensive experience in environmental SPIRITED modules or programmes) in Geomechanics as risk. The appointee should demonstrate representing both a natural and powerful particular expertise in geotechnical risk and complement to other work within the Centre of uncertainty quantification. Proven capability to Engineering Sustainability and also an area of cross successfully the boundaries of traditional CHALLENGING significant strategic research opportunity and disciplines within engineering and beyond is funding potential. essential. The appointee will have an excellent academic research record; this includes It is against this background that the University publishing influential papers in high-impact intends the appointment first of a Chair in academic journals and a track-record of Geomechanics and subsequently of additional attracting substantial external funding from a Faculty in this area. The Chair will be appointed range of sources. She or he will have the within the Centre for Engineering Sustainability creative vision, interpersonal and leadership but will be expected to work closely with the skills needed to identify and exploit research Liverpool Institute for Risk and Uncertainty and opportunities and lead projects at all scales in the School of Environmental Sciences in collaboration with established research groups particular. The Chair will be expected to build within the University and with external partners in activity and attract funding in Geomechanics leading institutions worldwide. The ability to specifically, but also to contribute to the wider bring to the School a strong portfolio of existing strengthening of the Civil Engineering discipline academic and non-academic partners will be at Liverpool and the Centre for Engineering highly desirable, as will experience of working for Sustainability. The appointee will clearly and within non-academic stakeholder demonstrate the mind-set and ambition required organisations. The appointee will report to the to establish and drive this activity, presenting a Head of School of Engineering. The post is compelling research vision which permanent and will commence as soon as acknowledges, inspires and engages possible. collaborative and complementary initiatives in research and teaching. 11 SPIRITED CHALLENGING THE PERSON AMBITIOUS It is expected that you would demonstrate the The following core values aligned with the • Team working and collaboration following values, skills and experience: University Strategy 2026: • Focusing on outputs and achievements • Globally-focused in both research and INSPIRING Significant leadership experience at a strategic • Being motivated and seeking to fulfil potential teaching activities level including: through continuous improvement • Leading and driving strategies to support • Rooted in delivering or supporting the delivery • Being accountable and taking personal delivery of the University's objectives of world-leading research excellence SPIRITED responsibility for his or her own work and • Developing key working relationships and to • Commitment to academic freedom and to actions. quickly establish credibility within a new role, guaranteeing the integrity of research in the context of clear accountability and personal building partnerships and influence at all levels The following leadership values: CHALLENGING within relevant academic institutions and responsibility • Creating a sense of common purpose around a communities, and with industry • Business excellence shared vision/ goal • Developing a communications structure to • Promoting the strengths of diversity and ensure that information is shared appropriately, championing equal access and opportunities. • Driving excellence and innovation in others. in a timely manner and consistently, as well as • Transparency, robustness and efficiency of • Having integrity, showing respect and ensuring encouraging engagement of colleagues at all decision-making processes dignity for all levels. • Ensuring institutional sustainability • Empowering colleagues through delegation and trust Well developed leadership skills including: • Willingness to consult with staff, students, industrial partners and alumni. • Building a learning culture and encouraging • People management skills and the ability to set learning from mistakes and review objectives and standards and • Encouraging teamwork and collaboration. provide feedback, guidance and direction The following behaviours: • Treating colleagues and stakeholders with • Motivating and supporting people to reach their • Highly developed interpersonal skills enabling respect, dignity and courtesy at all times highest potential and celebrate their success the use of different communication styles to engage others and promote clarity and • Behaving fairly and consistently • Being accountable and taking personal responsibility. understanding • Displaying leadership within his or her sphere of • Strong analytical skills including, scenario influence planning, analysis, problem solving and • Communicating and consulting with decision making. stakeholders regularly

12 SPIRITED CHALLENGING THE PERSON (CONTINUED) AMBITIOUS Essential Criteria Desirable Criteria Conditions of appointment The appointee will demonstrate: It is desirable for the appointee to demonstrate: INSPIRING Any appointment to this post will be • An outstanding record of research distinction in • A strong record of teaching excellence subject to the University's standard the area of geotechnical engineering and risk delivering geomechanical and geotechnical conditions of appointment. No person courses at undergraduate and postgraduate • Evidence of leadership in research and other than the Director of Human SPIRITED level research strategy, including national and Resources has authority to notify a international reputation in the field of • An established portfolio of research assets variation in these conditions. Any geomechanics (equipment, associates, PGR students etc.) with purported variation made by any other potential to transfer to Liverpool on appointment CHALLENGING • A proven capability to identify research individual shall be void and not binding opportunities and translate these into • Senior membership of a higher education upon the University. Heads of substantial funded research projects through professional body, such as SFHEA or PFHEA, School/Departments in the University are the transfer of techniques and methodologies or demonstration of sufficient body of teaching appointed by the Council, normally for a across the boundaries of traditional disciplines; experience to apply for one of these period of three years but with the • A PhD in engineering or a relevant physical or • A professional qualification (eg MICE, CEng) possibility of re-appointment, from among mathematical science discipline and active professional engagement in a the Professors, Readers and Senior Lecturers in the School / Departments, on • Outstanding interpersonal, communication and relevant engineering discipline. the recommendation of a Selection networking skills Committee consisting of the Vice- • The ability to lead multidisciplinary research Chancellor and the Pro-Vice-Chancellors. teams to deliver high-quality research and Professor Ahmed Elsheikh is currently the impact outcomes, knowledge exchange activity Head of the School of Engineering. and research-led teaching.

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14 COMPETING ON A GLOBAL SCALE

Ranked in the top 150 universities in the study, ensuring that our programmes are world by the Academic Ranking underpinned by international research and of World Universities, there are 7,400 providing opportunities for students to learn international and EU students from a language and study abroad as part 115 countries currently studying of their programme. at Liverpool. The University’s International Graduate We are the largest provider of 100% online School also gives postgraduate students postgraduate degree courses in Europe, the opportunity to undertake research in with some 10,000 students currently some of the world’s most prestigious studying for University of Liverpool degrees universities and research institutions, all over the world. enabling collaborators to tackle massive societal challenges and offering a This global focus has led the institution to truly international experience for establish a university in the World Heritage city of young researchers. Suzhou near Shanghai, in partnership with Xi’an Jiaotong University – a top 10 university in China. Representing a new model for a British operation “LIVERPOOL STAFF, in Higher Education in China, Xi’an Jiaotong- STUDENTS AND Liverpool University (XJTLU) is based in Suzhou GRADUATES ARE Industrial Park – one of Asia’s most successful AMBASSADORS business parks and a hub for foreign investors, FOR AMBITIOUS AND attracting 3,300 international organisations including 84 Fortune 500 companies. This ORIGINAL THINKING. unique partnership has recently been voted TODAY THEIR IDEAS, AND ‘Most influential Sino-Foreign Higher Education THE GROUNDBREAKING Institution in China’. RESEARCH THEY As well as establishing a campus in London, UNDERTAKE, ARE HAVING we are building partnerships with leading A GLOBAL IMPACT AND institutions across the globe that can provide the HELPING TO SHAPE OUR best opportunities for collaborative research and WORLD.”

15 “WE GIVE OUR STUDENTS OFFERING THE SKILLS THEY NEED A BRILLIANT TO LEAVE AS GLOBALLY AWARE, HIGHLY EMPLOYABLE, STUDENT AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, EXPERIENCE SATISFIED GRADUATES.”

The University offers much more than a problem-based learning, placement high-quality degree and we are proud opportunities, comprehensive academic that our students benefit from and personal support, and an active a vibrant research environment with extra-curricular programme. excellent teaching facilities as well as The University has also opened a campus in first rate careers guidance and a wealth London. Based in Finsbury Square, the campus of extra-curricular activities. increases the number of students able to study Liverpool is an academically strong institution for a research-led Russell Group degree in offering more than 445 university programmes London and enables us to bring the characteristic across professionally-focused disciplines and spirit of individuality, ingenuity academic subjects. We work closely with the and enterprise from our home city to the capital – Liverpool Guild of Students to provide a culture for a uniquely Liverpool experience in London. where students feel valued, supported and Close to the financial heart of London, the inspired to achieve, with access to campus offers postgraduate degrees in state-of-the-art facilities, award-winning Architecture, Accountancy, Law, Psychology and accommodation and comprehensive pastoral Public Health, benefiting from accreditation with care and careers support. key professional bodies in the City. It also offers Liverpool is one of the top 25 universities in the graduates, professionals and employers the UK targeted by leading graduate employers, and opportunity to enhance their capabilities in one 95% of our graduates are currently in of the world’s most dynamic and inspiring cities employment or further study. Taught by experts, and we expect to have registered 1,000 students our programmes challenge students to equip within five years. them for their career with an emphasis on

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The University is investing £600 million As well as refurbishing existing accommodation, Laboratories. The award-winning facility has INVESTING IN in its teaching, research and residential the University has opened an additional 1,259 enhanced the overall student experience estate over a 10-year period, including new study bedrooms. Crown Place opened in through the creation of a modern, high quality OUR CAMPUS £250 million in high-quality September 2014 and provides state-of-the-art and vibrant laboratory environment. accommodation, further increasing the number of accommodation. The University has also invested £32 million student rooms available on campus. Part of this investment – a £44 million project in teaching facilities in the Faculty of to construct high-quality accommodation at The University is also investing in its off-campus Humanities and Social Sciences, £10 million in the city centre campus – is now open to accommodation, developing new residences in an extension to the Management School and students. The 729-bedroom Vine Court South Liverpool to provide a self-contained £14.5 million in a refurbishment of its Guild of development features shops and a 250-seat Student Village, including catering and sports Students. restaurant and is at the cutting edge of facilities. sustainable design. A further £350 million is The teaching environment for science-based being invested in the academic estate at its subjects has been transformed with an city centre campus and at its Leahurst campus investment of £28 million in Centralised Teaching on the Wirral. 17 • Established in 1881 • The original red brick university • Ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide • An internationally-renowned Russell Group university • Annual turnover of £465 million • 22,000 students • 7,400 international and EU students from 115 countries • 5,500 talented staff • More than 445 university programmes • 10,000 online students from more than 190 countries • Associated with nine Nobel Prize winners • One of the first UK universities to establish a joint venture institution in China • 1,300 world-leading researchers • Annual research income of £89 million • 95% of our graduates in employment or further study • A global alumni network of 195,000 • A UK leader in widening participation • Committing £9.9 million to support students from low-income backgrounds • Student satisfaction rates at 85% • More than 75% of our students receive a First or 2:1 • Award-winning careers service • The largest providers of wholly online degree programmes in Europe • London campus opened in September 2014 • Award-winning labs crowned UK’s best scientific teaching facility • 20th in REF with seven subjects in top 10 and 81% of our research ranked as 3* and 4* 18 GRADUATING TO GREAT THINGS

Liverpool students are following in the footsteps of prominent alumni including Professor Dame Carol Ann Duffy DBE, Poet Laureate; Dr Paul Roy, Founding Chairman of asset management company NewSmith LLP and Chairman of the Retraining of Racehorses charity; Dame Stella Rimington DCB, former Director General of the UK’s national Security Service, MI5; Sir Robin Saxby, Founder and former Chairman, President and Chief Executive of ARM Holdings; Dr Lewis Booth CBE, Senior Independent Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Rolls-Royce PLC and Keith Williams, Chief Executive and Executive Chairman of British Airways.

AMBITIOUS INSPIRIN GSPIRITED CHALLENGING AMBITIOUS Liverpool graduates have become pioneers in every field, with Nobel prize winners including: Sir Ronald Ross (1902; discovery External organisations benefit from the University’s of mode of spread of malaria), Professor Charles Glover Barkla world-class expertise through a range of mechanisms (1917; discovery of the electromagnetic properties of x-rays), DRIVING including: contract and collaborative research, consultancy, Professor Sir Charles Sherrington (1932; functional analysis of training and Continuous Professional Development, motor unit in a muscle), Professor Sir (1936; KNOWLEDGE knowledge transfer partnerships, student projects and discovery of the neutron), Professor Sir Robert Robinson (1947; placements, volunteering and access to world-class investigation into alkaloids and other plant products), Professor EXCHANGE equipment and facilities. Har Gobind Khorana (1968; genetic code of protein synthesis), Professor Rodney Robert Porter (1972; structure of antibodies), The University is committed to making Last year the University of Liverpool engaged with more than Ronald H Cause (1991; discovery of the significance of its groundbreaking research and frontier 1,300 businesses and other external organisations in the transaction costs and property rights for the institutional technologies available to its business context of collaborative and contract research alone. Our structure and functioning of the economy), and Professor Sir partners for the benefit of regional and researchers have won £28.8 million of collaborative research Joseph Rotblat (1995; work to diminish the role of nuclear arms national economies. grants funded jointly by business and the public sector, £18.2 in international politics). million of collaborative research funded by the EU alone, and 655 contract research commissions which generated a combined income of £16.2 million. 19 PROVIDING ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL

A UK leader in widening participation, the University exceeds its benchmarks for both the recruitment of “THE OPPORTUNITY students from low participation neighbourhoods and the TO LEARN IS MADE State Schools and Colleges sector and we have achieved AVAILABLE TO ALL , the Buttle UK Quality Mark at ‘exemplary level’ in recognition of our commitment to young people in care. WHEREVER THEY COME FROM AND WHATEVER STAGE OF THEIR LIFE.” We offer a range of aspiration raising activities to more than 8,000 young people each year, with the focus of our activity on pupils who are ‘most able but least likely to attend HE’. This activity includes welcoming 100 people to our Scholars programme – for students from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds – and 57 people on our Go Higher programme, which is designed to support entry to the University for applicants who do not have qualifications. The University has developed a partnership of Merseyside secondary schools and colleges whose performance at GCSE is below the national and local average and we work intensively with them and with their feeder primary schools to raise aspirations and support attainment. We co-sponsor two Academy Schools – the North Liverpool Academy, and University Academy, Birkenhead. We also commit £15 million a year for scholarships and bursaries to support those who would otherwise not be able to consider entering higher education. 20 FUNDRAISING: A MAJOR OPPORTUNITY AMBITIOUS INSPIRIN GSPIRITED CHALLENGING AMBITIOUS

Developing relationships with Equine Hospital, Wolfson Centre for Personalised campaign, aiming to raise £100 million by 2022. supporters and alumni, as well as policy Medicines, Small Animal Teaching Hospital and We have established foundations in the US and makers, business leaders, media and the Centre for Better Births are examples of what Hong Kong, and have recruited a number of leaders of research and education philanthropy has helped us prominent and successful alumni as Board institutions – has been essential to our to achieve, in addition to supporting numerous members. This campaign will transform the success. students through bursary and scholarship impact that philanthropy has on our research, programmes. recruitment and student experience, and our Over the last 10 years we have completed senior academics will play a supporting role in Building on this success, we are now several capital fundraising projects and raised in realising these goals. moving towards the launch of our first public, excess of £25 million. The Philip Leverhulme multi-million pound institutional fundraising 21 Voted third in the top 10 world AT THE HEART OF cities 2014 according to the Rough Guides, Liverpool is a ONE OF THE UK’S fantastic place to live, work, study and invest. MOST DYNAMIC AND A major cultural destination, the city is home to more national museums, theatres and art CREATIVE CITIES galleries than anywhere in the UK outside London, and the port of Liverpool is the largest Freeport zone in the UK. With the fastest growing economy in the UK outside of London too, Liverpool benefited from an £800 million boost to the region’s economy when it was named European Capital of Culture in 2008 and has continued to thrive ever since. This is a city where individuality, innovation and enterprise are celebrated; home to explorers and revolutionaries for more than 800 years, their pioneering spirit inspires everything we do. The University helps to drive the city’s vibrant knowledge economy through close collaboration with other universities, industry and the NHS, helping the City Region to compete in the global business arena. There are around 50,000 students living in the city and the region also has one of the highest student retention rates in the UK, with six out of 10 students still in employment in Liverpool following graduation.

22 OUR GUILD OF STUDENTS EXISTS TO ENSURE STUDENTS LOVE THEIR TIME AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL

The Guild has existed for more than 100 years to provide students with • Being a fun and vibrant place where students a voice. That voice has been can try new things and have a laugh – from used to lobby, link communities our Give it a Go trips to live music gigs, the and liberate members. Guild offers a range of good quality, And it continues to be heard. The Guild is a affordable services student-led, dynamic and constantly evolving organisation; a not-for-profit charity of which • Being a caring organisation and there when every student at the University of Liverpool needed – from the moment students arrive in is a member. Liverpool the Guild team is there to help them The Guild at Liverpool is a Guild of pioneers. Its settle in and offers an independent, free, members elected the first black Students’ Union confidential advice service President in the UK, built the biggest Students’ Union building in Europe and grabbed national • Being a democratic organisation that listens to headlines with a 300-strong sit-in protest. Today its members and fights for the issues that the Guild continues to be the beating heart of the matter – providing effective representation student body and the place where everything and being a critical friend to the University. happens. Our Guild strives to achieve the best for students by: September 2014 saw the completion of a £14.5 million redevelopment programme of • Offering valuable opportunities to develop the Guild’s main building, demonstrating the new skills – whether through one of 170 excellent working relationship it has with the student-run societies, student-staff roles, University and in recognition of the value the or volunteer programmes Guild adds to the student experience. 23 FINANCIAL POSITION

The University had a turnover of £435 million for the year to 31 July 2014 (which included £84 million for research) and generated an operating surplus of £19.9 million. Total expenditure for the year was £415 million. Our primary financial objective is to generate surpluses to sustain ongoing activities and to maintain the necessary investment in our estate and associated infrastructure, which in the last year included a total capital investment of £61 million. Further details of the University’s financial position can be found in the financial statements by visiting: www.liverpool.ac.uk/finance.

24 SPIRITED CHALLENGING AMBITIOUS INSPIRING

An executive search exercise is being undertaken by Perrett Laver. Applications will be considered by the Selection Commitee in late April and shortlisted candidates will be invited to speak informally APPOINTMENT Perrett Laver will support the University in helping to identify the with the University. Campus visits will take place on Thursday widest possible field of qualified candidates and assisting in the PROCESS assessment of candidates against the requirements for the role. 23rdJune and formal interviews will be held on Friday 24th June. On the23rd, applicants will be invited to give a presentation, meet AND HOW TO APPLY Applications should consist of a full CV detailing academic and with arange of Faculty members, and observe the campus professional qualifications, full employment history, latest facilities.Formal interviews will then take place on the 24th, when remuneration and relevant achievements, and should be selection ofthe preferred candidate will take place. accompanied by a covering letter describing briefly how candidates meet the criteria in the ‘person specification’, why the appointment For more information about the University, visit: is of interest, and what they believe they can bring to the role. www.liverpool.ac.uk These can be uploaded at www.perrettlaver.com/candidates quoting the reference number 2440. twitter.com/@livuninews The closing date for applications is 09.00 BST on Wednesday 20thApril 2016. 25