The University of Lincoln is a public research university in Lincoln,England,with origins dating back to 1861. It gained university status in 1992 and its present name in 2001. The main campus is in the heart of the city of Lincoln alongside the Brayford Pool. There are satellite campuses across Lincolnshire in Riseholme and Holbeach and graduation ceremonies take place in Lincoln Cathedral.
Alastair Hugh Fitter CBE FRS is a British ecologist at the University of York.
Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith,PRS is a British statistician who is chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute and president of the Royal Society.
Margaret Elaine Gardner,is an Australian academic,economist and university executive serving as the 30th and current governor of Victoria since August 2023. She was previously the vice-chancellor of Monash University from 2014 to 2023 and the president and vice-chancellor of RMIT University from 2005 to 2014.
Dame Julie Katharine Maxton is a British-New Zealand barrister,legal scholar,and academic administrator. Since 2011,she has been executive director of the Royal Society.
Robert James "Roy" Crawford was a university administrator and mechanical engineering academic,whose primary research interest has been in the mechanical properties and processing behaviour of plastics.
Sir William Ian Axford was a New Zealand space scientist who was director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy from 1974 to 1990. Axford's research was focused on the interaction of the Sun with the magnetic field of Earth (magnetosphere) or the interstellar medium (heliosphere).
Sir David Christopher Graham Skegg is a New Zealand epidemiologist and university administrator. He is an emeritus professor in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Otago. He was the vice-chancellor of the university from 2004 to 2011 and president of the Royal Society of New Zealand from 2012 to 2015. His primary research interest is cancer epidemiology.
Stuart Norman McCutcheon was a New Zealand university administrator. Until March 2020 he was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Auckland,New Zealand,at which point he was the longest serving current Vice-Chancellor in New Zealand,having served three five-year terms. He was previously Vice-Chancellor at Victoria University of Wellington,and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Massey University.
David Clarke is deputy vice-chancellor and Professor of Law at Bristol University.
James Alexander McWha is a botanist whose professional career was devoted to teaching,research and educational administration in New Zealand,Northern Ireland and Australia. He retired as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Adelaide on 30 June 2012. In October 2013 he was appointed as Vice Chancellor of the newly created University of Rwanda. He retired from the University of Rwanda in October 2015.
Alec Lazenby is an academic who has held positions at the University of Cambridge,University of New England,University of Tasmania,the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research and the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. Lazenby served as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England from 1970 to 1977,and the University of Tasmania from 1982 to 1991.
Vada Harlene Hayne is an American-born academic administrator who was the vice-chancellor and a professor of psychology at the University of Otago in New Zealand,before moving to Western Australia to take up the position of vice-chancellor at Curtin University in April 2021.
Malcolm Colin Press is a British ecologist,professor and Vice-Chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU),in the United Kingdom.
Richard John Blaikie is a physicist who works in the field of nano-scale optics. He is currently Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Otago.
Professor Sir Ian Andrew Greer is a Scottish medical doctor who is the 13th President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast and formerly Vice-President of the University of Manchester and Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. He was Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow 2001−2007,Dean at Hull York Medical School 2007–2010,then Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool 2010−2015.
John Scott Davidson is a British legal scholar and academic administrator. He has served as Vice-chancellor of Newman University Birmingham since 1 January 2017.
Michael John Selby was a New Zealand geomorphologist,academic,and university administrator. Mount Selby in Antarctica's Britannia Range is named for him.
Reinhart Hugo Michael Langer was a New Zealand botanist. He was an academic at Lincoln College for over 25 years,and served as its acting principal from 1984 to 1985.
Alison Stewart is a New Zealand biologist who specialises in plant pathology. As of 2022 she is the CEO of the Foundation for Arable Research,based in Christchurch.
