Tim Blackman | |
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Vice-chancellor of the Open University | |
In office 1 October 2019 –October 2024 | |
Vice-chancellor of the Middlesex University | |
In office 2015–2019 | |
Succeeded by | Nic Beech |
Personal details | |
Born | Gravesend,Kent,UK |
Education | Durham University |
Occupation | Academic |
Tim Blackman is a British academic. He has been the vice-chancellor of the Open University since October 2019. [1] It was announced in 2024 that owing to ill-health he would step-down from his position. [2] He previously was the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University from 2015 to 2019. [3]
At The Open University he was partly responsible for moving 4000+ teaching staff onto permanent contracts [4] and soon after he initiated the institute's first use of 'fire and rehire' of Associate Lecturers [5]
After graduating with a degree in geography from Durham University,Blackman started his career as a community worker in Belfast,before completing a PhD in urban sociology. [6]
He was the deputy dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Oxford Brookes University,and also the dean of social sciences and at Teesside University. [7]
Blackman,a fellow of Academy of Social Sciences and Royal Society of Arts,was the assessor of Social Policy and Social Work in the England Research Excellence Framework. He was a founding member of the Community Technical Aid and the Oxford Dementia Centre. [8]
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