University of Nottingham Malaysia recently announced the appointment of Professor Deborah Hall for the role of Vice Provost of Research and Knowledge Exchange.
University of Nottingham Malaysia Provost and CEO Professor Graham Kendall said that, “We are delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Deborah Hall.is a world renowned researcher and academic leader. Her biography is a testament to that”.
Professor Hall is an NIHR Senior Investigator and Deputy Director of the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre (funded 2017-2022) where she leads research projects on measures in clinical trials, tinnitus and translational neuroscience.
Professor Hall graduated from Brunel University in Psychology and completed a PhD in Cognitive Neuropsychology with Professor Glyn Humphreys and Jane Riddoch at Birmingham University in 1996. She moved to the MRC Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham to develop auditory functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), firstly as a postdoctoral research fellow, then as a programme leader where she also held an honorary professor appointment in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Nottingham.
In 2009, she left to establish cognitive neuroscience teaching and research in the Division of Psychology at Nottingham Trent University, whilst also leading the tinnitus research group at the NIHR Nottingham Hearing Biomedical Research Unit (BRU). Following the successful refunding of the BRU, she joined the School of Medicine at the University of Nottingham as Professor of Hearing Sciences and was Director of the BRU from April 2012-March 2017.
Professor Hall was awarded the British Society of Audiology Thomas Simm Littler prize in 2010 for her services to audiology, and the Tonndorf lecture at the 1st World Tinnitus Congress in 2017. She is Chair of the ‘Outcome measurement’ working group of TINNET (2014-2018) and Training Coordinator of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks European School for Interdisciplinary Tinnitus (ESIT) Research (2017-2021).
In addition to her role as Vice-Provost, Professor Hall will continue to lead research in the UK as she officially assumes her new role in June 2018. She is succeeding Professor Claire O’Malley, who left the University in December 2017.
“The research we conduct at the Malaysia Campus is ground breaking and addresses various global agendas. We also run research that addresses the many areas which are relevant to Malaysia and we are glad to contribute in that capacity. I am confident that Deborah will be happy to head the research we do here,” Professor Kendall added.
According to Professor Hall, “I'm really looking forward to bringing my skills and experience in building international research partnerships across academic disciplines and across health, industry, and third-sector (charity) organisations to my new role at the Malaysia Campus.Through my continued leadership of research at Nottingham, UK, I also anticipate strengthening those existing links across the two campuses in Malaysia and the UK, as well as developing new ones”.
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More information is available from Josephine Dionisappu, PR & Communications Manager at University of Nottingham Malaysia on josephine.dionisappu@nottingham.edu.my, +6 (03) 8924 8746.
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Posted on 16th March 2018