The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) appoints Professor Claire O’Malley as the Vice- Provost (Research and Knowledge Exchange) to replace Professor Graham Kendall who was recently appointed as the incoming CEO of UNMC.
Professor O’Malley has been the Dean of the Faculty of Science at UNMC since September 2014 and will assume her new role on 1 August 2016. She started her career at the University of Nottingham, UK in 1989. Prior to joining UNMC, she was Professor of Learning Science at the School of Psychology, and Dean of the Graduate School at The University of Nottingham, UK.
Professor O’Malley said: “As an interdisciplinary researcher, I am very honoured and excited about the opportunity to lead the UNMC in the area of the ground- breaking research which addresses global challenges such as health, food security and environmental change and the important role of technology and social science in achieving advances in these areas.
Professor O’Malley has been awarded significant funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), UK, as well as the European Commission. She was Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre for Research in Development, Instruction and Training at Nottingham from 1992 to 2002, vice-chair of the ESRC Research Grants Board from 2004 to 2008 and most recently a member of the ESRC Research Committee from 2012 to 2014.
She was a founding member of the Mixed Reality Laboratory at The University of Nottingham, UK, which serves to connect researchers from across disciplines in science, engineering, social science and arts. She is also a founding member of the Learning Sciences Research Institute at Nottingham, bringing together researchers in psychology, education and computer science. She is also founding member and a past President of the International Society of the Learning Sciences and a Chartered Psychologist of the British Psychological Society. She is also a co-investigator in the Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute at Nottingham.
She holds a doctorate in Education and a Bachelors degree in Psychology & Philosophy from the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests are in human-computer interaction and technology enhanced learning.
Prior to joining The University of Nottingham, she worked at the University of California San Diego, the University of Sussex and the Open University.
“I am delighted that Claire has accepted this important role. She has tremendous breadth and depth of experience nationally and internationally and will be ideally placed to further develop research and knowledge exchange activity, building on the great work undertaken by Professor Graham Kendall,” said Professor Christine Ennew, CEO and Provost of UNMC.
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More information is available from Josephine Dionisappu, PR & Communications Manager at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus on +603 8924 8746, josephine.dionisappu@nottingham.edu.my.
Notes to editors: The University of Nottingham has 43,000 students and is ‘the nearest Britain has to a truly global university, with a “distinct” approach to internationalisation, which rests on those full-scale campuses in China and Malaysia, as well as a large presence in its home city.’ (Times Good University Guide 2016). It is also one of the most popular universities in the UK among graduate employers and the winner of ‘Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers’ at the Times Higher Education Awards 2015. It is ranked in the world’s top 75 by the QS World University Rankings 2015/16, and 8th in the UK by research power according to the Research Excellence Framework 2014. It has been voted the world’s greenest campus for four years running, according to Greenmetrics Ranking of World Universities.
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Posted on 12th May 2016