New Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Teaching and Learning

Monday, 09 January 2012

Professor Gavin Brooks became Pro-Vice-Chancellor with responsibilities for Teaching and Learning at the University on 1 January 2012.

Professor Brooks said: "I am delighted, and consider it a privilege, to have been appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor with specific responsibility for teaching and learning at the University. This is a particularly exciting and challenging time in higher education and I am very much looking forward to contributing to our ongoing success and to the next phase of our development as a leading global university."

Professor Brooks joined the University in 1999. He was the founding Head of the Reading School of Pharmacy and he was also a founding member of the highly successful Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research (ICMR) at the University.

From August 2008 to July 2010 he served as Head of the School of Biological Sciences and was elected Dean of Science in August 2010.

Amongst a number of academic external appointments, he has served as Chairman of the International Pharmaceutical Federation Special Interest Group on Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and currently is Chairman of the South East Universities Consortium for Biopharma Skills.

Professor Brooks takes over the role of Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning) from Professor Rob Robson who has become Provost and CEO of the University of Reading Malaysia.

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