Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of Greenwich Business School Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor
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Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of Greenwich Business School Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor Thank you for expressing interest In keeping with our ambition, we in the role of Pro Vice-Chancellor want Greenwich to become the and Executive Dean of Greenwich best modern Business School University Business School. in the UK and to be part of the The university is a very special elite business schools worldwide place and is rightly proud accredited by the Association to of its heritage in providing Advance Collegiate Schools of transformative experiences for Business (AACSB) in business and students from all walks of life. accounting. We are equally proud of our high Greenwich Business School standards of applied research will lead the way in developing and enterprise which support entrepreneurial future business economic growth, social impact leaders, provide cutting edge and sustainability. graduate, postgraduate and Greenwich has taken great strides doctoral programmes of learning, in recent years, not least due develop international and national to the commitment and energy business partners, improve of our staff to achieve great the employability prospects things against an increasingly of our students and work with complex and challenging external communities to provide economic environment. growth. As we move into a new era, we We are seeking an outstanding are passionate and focused on the individual who will bring strategic future and our collective ambition and academic insight, a wealth is to become the best modern of business acumen and university in the UK by 2030. We experience to our talented senior will achieve this by focusing on management team. student experience and success, If you have drive, commitment, investing in our knowledge professional credibility and exchange capability and building share our passion for higher upon our existing achievements in education and its power to create applied, impactful research. opportunities and change lives We have ambitious plans for for the better, I encourage you to our three campuses in London make an application for the role. and Kent and these are founded upon our commitment to build successful partnerships, providing sector leading facilities and attracting talent on a global scale. We are particularly proud of our diverse student and staff body Professor Jane Harrington and our explicit commitment to Vice-Chancellor equality, equity and inclusion. 2 Contents Great things about the University of Greenwich 4 Our teaching 7 Our research 10 Our faculties 12 Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences 12 Faculty of Business 12 Faculty of Education, Health & Human Sciences 12 Faculty of Engineering & Science 12 About the university 14 Our campuses 16 Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of Greenwich Business School 19 Purpose of role 19 Key accountabilities 19 Key performance indicators 20 Key relationships (internal and external) 20 Personal specifi cation 20 How to apply 21 3 • The university has two Guardian University Awards for Research Impact. Guardian University Awards showcase world-class Great things about teaching, research, leadership and engagement within the higher education sector. • Life-saving research carried out by the the University of university includes projects to reduce loss of life during fi re evacuations and to develop a Greenwich trap for a malaria-carrying species of mosquito. • Our alumni excel in every walk of life. • We have more than 125 years of experience They range from lawyer Shabina Begum, providing quality education. a campaigner for the empowerment and • We have won fi ve Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for protection of women, to compositor Guy Higher and Further Education, including a prize Penwill, a member of a double Oscar- winning in 2019 for our Natural Resources Institute’s special effects team, and Abiy Ahmed, Prime ground-breaking work to fi nd smart solutions Minister of Ethiopia and winner of the 2019 for pest control in the developing world. Nobel Peace Prize. Our annual Greenwich Portraits exhibition recognises some of our • Our Greenwich Campus is based on a UNESCO most outstanding alumni. World Heritage Site, and we are custodian of 16 listed buildings of special architectural or • We are proud of the diversity of our historic interest. international student body and our engagement in transnational education. The university has • 90% of our students are in employment or around 15,000 students in ca.31 partnerships further study six months after graduation. across 19 countries. Our UK-based students • In the 2019 National Student Survey, more come from more than 146 countries, and in than 82% of our fi nal-year undergraduate 2018–19 22% were domiciled from outside students said they were satisfi ed, overall, with the UK. In 2018, we established the University their course, one of the highest scores among of Greenwich International College (UGIC) universities in London. in partnership with Oxford International. Located on our Greenwich Campus, UGIC is • We have won nine Times Higher Education an embedded college which offers an exciting awards, including Most Innovative Teacher range of undergraduate and postgraduate and Outstanding Contribution to Innovation courses for international students leading to and Technology. progression to the university. • Nobel Prize winner Professor Charles Kao, • We’ve a 1st class environment rating from pioneer of fi bre optics, was educated here. the People & Planet University League for our • Our Teaching Excellence Framework Silver rating environmental and ethical performance. indicates that we provide our students with • The university is well positioned for attracting engaging, personalised teaching that encourages students. QS Best Student Cities ranked their commitment to learning and study. London as the world’s most student-friendly • Our academic staff includes recipients of city in its 2018 edition. the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship, • Improvements in our student experience which recognises and rewards individual include Dreadnought Building, a excellence in teaching in higher education. £25 million conversion which brings together • Ofsted has given us its ‘Outstanding’ rating for all student-facing services on Greenwich the quality of our training in primary education. Campus in one place for the fi rst time; the Medway Student Hub, a new on-campus • Two of the recent winners of the British entertainment and social space; our Journal of Midwifery’s Student Midwife of award-winning Stockwell Street Building, the Year award have come from the University which houses the main library; and the of Greenwich. Cooper Powerhouse, a research, enterprise and teaching hub supporting student entrepreneurship. 4 5 Dreadnought Building Medway Student Hub Stockwell Street Building 6 90% of our graduates are in work or further study within six months of completing their course. The proportion of UK-domiciled full- Our teaching time undergraduate students achieving a Our graduates go out into the world with strong graduate outcome (i.e. a graduate-level job or knowledge of their subject, an ability to apply postgraduate-level study) increased from 48.9% that knowledge in practice and determination for students graduating in 2012-13 to 70.2% for and resilience to succeed. 2016-17 graduates. Our teaching focuses on employability, ensuring We continue to invest in new and existing staff students gain the skills and understanding to ensure that they are highly qualified and they need to launch successful careers or take effective educators. Staff members frequently their professions to the next level. Students win national teaching awards, including HEA use industry-standard equipment on campus National Teaching Fellowships, which recognise and gain further hands-on experience through excellence in higher education teaching. relevant work placements. We have long had an international outlook. This The leading professional bodies accredit is reflected in the large number of international many of our courses, and this also boosts students that join us each year and the topics students’ careers. they study and research. Many of our students’ study in their own countries through our Much of our teaching is informed by research international partners. and many of our tutors are leading experts in their fields. This means that teaching is illuminated by real-life examples that engage and inspire our students. We’ve had many acknowledgements of the quality of our teaching. We were proud to receive a Silver rating in the Teaching Excellence Framework, and Ofsted has rated our primary education training as ‘outstanding’. 7 8 Throughout my time at My course leader was a Greenwich, the lecturers have fingerprint expert. Having a been amazingly dedicated, person like that teaching me, providing us with a high level someone who trained forensic of education and support. My scientists in the Metropolitan personal tutor in particular is Police, was just amazing. always available to support me Martin Sanchez Horna with any of my concerns. Forensic genetics student Loretta Tanor Childhood and youth studies student I didn’t know the university would be such a friendly, Staff gave me a lot of relaxed place and so geared help and advice, including towards teaching. The mock interviews, which lecturers aren’t doing it just really helped… and I have a as a job. They’re doing it as a placement lined up next year. passion. Josh Watkins Paul Wolfe Business management student Primary education student Studying biology at the Greenwich was my first choice. University of Greenwich From the moment I embarked has been one of the best on the course, I have not been experiences that I’ve had. I’m disappointed. in both labs and lectures; it’s Mikhail Mohammed so varied, which I find very Social work student appealing. Sophie Hygate I like all the practical work Biology student we do. I’m not sure I’d have been able to ask so many The strong focus on questions or work so closely employment opportunities with lab assistants at another really gave me the chance to university. All the group work make an informed decision on and lab practical’s are helping what area of law really suited me discover more about me.