Paul Boyle | |
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![]() Professor Paul Boyle in 2012 | |
Vice-Chancellor of Swansea University | |
Assumed office March 2019 | |
Preceded by | Richard B. Davies |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester | |
In office 2014–2019 | |
Preceded by | Sir Robert Burgess |
Succeeded by | Nishan Canagarajah |
Personal details | |
Born | 16 November 1964 |
Alma mater | Lancaster University University of Colorado |
Salary | £312,000 (2021–22) [1] |
Paul Joseph Boyle, CBE , FRSE , FBA ,FRSGS,FLSW (born 16 November 1964) is a British geographer,academic,and academic administrator. He was the vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester between 2014 and 2019. [2] He had been Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews from 1999 to 2014,and Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 2010 to 2014. [3] [4] [5] He took over as vice-chancellor of Swansea University at the end of the 2018/2019 academic year. [6]
In 2006,Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). [3] In 2013,he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA),the United Kingdom's national academy for the social sciences and humanities. [7] In the 2016 New Year Honours,he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to social science". [8]
In 2022,Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. [9]