Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation)
As a member of the Senior Leadership Team and Executive Board, Ruth has strategic responsibility for all aspects of research, innovation and knowledge exchange across the University. In addition to leading the Research and Innovation action plan for University strategy, RH2030s, she is responsible for University preparation for, and returns to, the Research Excellence Framework (REF), Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF) and partnership development with external research and innovation organisations.
Ruth is a member of the Advisory Board of the Arts and Humanities Research Council and a longstanding strategic peer reviewer for UKRI AHRC and the cross-council Future Leaders Fellowship scheme. From 2020-2025 she chaired the Advisory Board of the UKRI FLF Development Network: a national training programme for UKRI-funded research leaders.
Ruth an extensive track record of developing partnerships with galleries, libraries, museums and arts organisations to deliver the people, skills and solutions they need. This includes her work leading placements and challenges for PhD students in the Techne Doctoral Training Partnership across London and the South East. She also developed a programme of work around place-making, belonging and arts practice in Coventry and Warwickshire focusing on local collections and connections relating to the writer George Eliot.
