Announcement on Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation

Dear colleagues,

Professor Andrew Hunter has decided to retire from the University, and from his current role as Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, at the end of January 2024.

On retirement Andrew will have been at the University for nearly 20 years. He has achieved a huge amount during his time here, latterly leading and stewarding the University’s submission to the 2021 REF. This was not just the submission our activities, although a substantial task in its own right, but ensuring we had built capacity and quality to improve on the 2014 results. It was therefore very pleasing to see that the University not only increased the volume of research submitted but also the average quality of outputs and impact.

Andrew joined the University from the University of Durham in 2004. Within the University of Lincoln he has been Head of the Department of Computing, Dean of Research and then Pro Vice Chancellor and founding Head of the College of Science. In this role he did much to shape and grow the college, setting it on the path to its current success.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my personal thanks to Andrew for his advice as I transitioned into the role of Vice Chancellor at the University from October 2021. His wisdom and insight will be missed by me and the SLT, and I wish him well as he writes the next chapter in his life story.

We will have the opportunity to say a more formal thank you to him around the turn of the year and we will circulate details in due course.

A process for finding Andrew’s successor will begin shortly.

Regards,

Neal

Professor Neal Juster

Vice Chancellor