The beginning of the University of Greenwich’s 2030, ‘This is our time’, has been set in motion with the appointment of three new female senior faculty members in attempts to have a more representative faculty team.
Dr Noel Bradshaw, Processor Danielle Talbot and Professor Zoe Pettit are the new additions to the faculty team. Bradshaw became the Deputy Dean for the Faculty of Engineering and Science. Pettit and Talbot are both also appointed as Deputy Deans, the former for the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the latter will be joining the Greenwich Business School.
According to the University of Greenwich’s website Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Jane Roscoe, said: “We are delighted to announce these three new appointments to our senior team. It’s great to have a combination of both homegrown and external talent to provide us with a really strong, inclusive and diverse team that reflects the modern university that Greenwich is.
“These appointments form part of the wider transformation of our faculty structure to future-proof the university and enable us to deliver our 2030 strategy.”
Dr Bradshaw began her career by studying for a BSc in Mathematics at the University of Greenwich as a mature student, and then proceeded to accept an offer to teach Mathematics and Operational research there. She then progressed onto becoming the Faculty Director of Employability for the then FAculty of Architecture, Computing and Humanities. Not long ago, in 2019, Bradshaw was appointed Head of School Computing and Digital Media at London Metropolitan after working for Sainsburys Argos as a Senior Data Scientist.
Bradshaw will be joining the University of Greenwich in March 2022.
Talbot’s 30 year experience in higher education at institutions such as Coventry University and Liverpool John Moore’s University has included various different positions like course director and Head of School, which is her current position pre joining the University of Greenwich in March 2022.
Unlike her new colleagues Pettit has been a part of the University of Greenwich team since 2001 working at multiple different levels like Head of the Department of Literature but most recently working as Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2018. On the 1st January Pettit will be taking up her new role as Deputy Dean.
Pettit’s projects out of her academic career include working on subtitling and dubbing multilingual films and series which began with her post graduate studies on audiovisual translation and interlingual subtitling and dubbing of audiovisual genres.
I welcome the introduction of proactive strategies like the new initiative at the University of Leicester, which I am visiting today, to increase the number of female professors by 1.5% each year, with the overall goal of having 30% professorships held by women by 2020.
ReaAccording to HESA data, just under half of academic staff are female however that is halved into a quarter at senior levels, with black women making up only 2% of the entire female academic staff . Other universities apart from the University of Greenwich have also actively been promoting and hiring more female professors. The University of Leicester have introduced their new initiative to increase the number of female professors by 1.5 percent every year.
