Professoriate
A forum for academic debate and intellectual leadership at LSBUThe LSBU Professoriate represents a community of experience and expertise made up of all full professors (salaried, visiting and emeritus) at LSBU. The Professoriate is a forum for academic debate and intellectual leadership. Members speak with authority as academic ambassadors (internally and externally) to support the enhancement of research, scholarship, teaching and learning, and enterprise cultures at LSBU and beyond.
The LSBU Professoriate exists to:
- Provide academic leadership in teaching, learning, research, outreach, and other matters, particularly at the strategic level
- Act as a voice of experience on issues of concern/interest to the university
- Act as academic ambassadors for the university, to showcase research, expertise, and subject specialisms
- Provide academic mentoring and guidance as required across LSBU for postgraduate, early career and mid-career colleagues
- Engage with LSBU events that promote the intellectual activities of the university, including outreach, media expertise, masterclasses and inaugural professorial lectures
- Provide a space where LSBU Professors can came together as a community of scholars and share ideas, expertise, and experience
- Feed into LSBU Academic Board and the University Research and Innovation Committee, and other relevant LSBU Committees when, from time-to-time, it has an issue to raise or a matter to report
The Chair and Vice-Chair of the LSBU Professoriate for the period September 2024 to August 2026 are:
