Warwick People

WBS Professor of Marketing & Innovation and Associate Dean (Internationalisation), Qing Wang, is profiled in this week's online Management section of the Financial Times.

Professor Seán Hand, of the Department of French Studies, has been elected to membership of the Academia Europaea - an international, non-governmental association of individual scientists and scholars who are recognised by their peers as experts and leaders in their own subject areas.

As staff will know, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Professor Mark Smith will be leaving Warwick at the end of December to take up a new appointment as Vice-Chancellor at Lancaster University.

The process to appoint a Deputy Vice-Chancellor will commence during the coming term. The Vice-Chancellor will assume the direct reporting line with Heads of Department until an announcement is made. However, in the interim,there will be a number of changes to PVC portfolios to ensure that the priorities and business of the University continue to be driven forward strongly during this period.

Professor Valery Nakariakov, Department of Physics, has been elected President of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) of the European Physical Society.

In recognition of the contribution of former Pro-Chancellor, John Leighfield OBE, a road on campus has been named after him. 'Leighfield Road' is now the official name for the road opposite the new Bluebell halls of residence on the south/east side of campus, off Gibbet Hill Road.