Birmingham appoints Tickell to management team

Leading social scientist Professor Adam Tickell has been appointed by the University of Birmingham as Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research and Knowledge Transfer. Professor Tickell is currently Vice-Principal, Research, Enterprise and Communications, at Royal Holloway, University of London, and will take up his post at Birmingham on February 1, 2011. He brings a wealth of leadership excellence in Higher Education, particularly in developing and implementing research strategy. He recently led a consultation with the academic community at Royal Holloway to establish their new research strategy and preparation for the Research Excellence Framework (REF). On his appointment Professor Tickell said: 'I am honoured and excited to be joining Birmingham at such an important time in its history. Birmingham is one of the world's great universities and I hope to be able to help it to go from strength to strength.' - Professor Tickell is an economic geographer and is particularly interested in questions of political devolution, regulation, markets and the economy. He obtained a first-class degree in Geography in 1987 from the University of Manchester in 1987 and went on to complete a PhD 'The Social Regulation of Banking'.