Career
He started his career in management in the NHS,holding senior posts in mental health units in Nottingham and Newcastle. In 1992,Peck joined King's College London,becoming the director of its Centre for Mental Health Services Development two years later. He became a leading figure in the closure of UK psychiatric asylums and the creation of community mental health services.
Peck gained his PhD from Newcastle University in 1997. From 2002 to 2008,he was director of the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham and professor of public services development. [2]
In 2006,Peck became head of the School of Public Policy at the University of Birmingham. He was appointed the inaugural pro vice-chancellor of the newly-formed College of Social Sciences at the university in 2008,a role he held until becoming vice-chancellor of Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in 2014. [2] Since then,NTU has been awarded The Times Higher Education University of the Year in 2017,The Sunday Times Modern University of the Year in 2018 and 2023,The Guardian University of the Year in 2019 and the What Uni University of the Year in 2023. [2] He left NTU in July 2025. [3]
In 2018 he was invited by Theresa May to join the panel of the Post-18 Education Review of fees and funding of both HE and FE,also known as the Augar Review,after its chair Philip Augar. [4] Peck has been a trustee of both the Universities and Colleges Employers' Association (UCEA) and the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS),where he was Chair in 2024/25. [5] [6] He was President of the Newark and Nottinghamshire Agricultural Society between 2019 and 2022. [7] He was an elected member of the Board of Universities UK between 2019 and 2022. [8]
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