New Vice-Principal appointed by Queen Mary University of London

Professor Rebecca Lingwood has been appointed as QMUL's new Vice-Principal for Student Experience, Teaching and Learning. She will be responsible for supporting and developing the university's educational provision and will also contribute more broadly to the academic leadership of QMUL when she starts the role in September, after arriving from the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Cambridge. She succeeds Professor Susan Dilly who in July concludes a long period of service to QMUL, including a distinguished period as VP. Professor Lingwood said: "It is a privilege and a personal pleasure to be joining QMUL as Vice-Principal with responsibilities for Student Experience, Teaching and Learning. QMUL's recent successes in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 complement its outstanding reputation and record for student satisfaction among its widely diverse student body. I look forward to helping to lead QMUL to further achievements in innovative and inclusive education, linked to employability, research and public engagement, while acknowledging the university's founding principles and its roots, which make it distinctive among UK institutions." As an engineer with a distinguished research record, her academic home at QMUL will be the School of Engineering and Materials Science where she will hold the title of Professor of Fluid Dynamics. She added: "I am also delighted to join the School of Engineering and Materials Science as Professor of Fluid Dynamics.