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19/02/2013
Queen's VC To Leave Post
The Vice Chancellor at Queen's University Belfast will leave his post in August to take up a post as Chief Executive and Vice-Chancellor of Cranfield University in Bedford.
Professor Sir Peter Gregson said of his time at Queen's: "I have derived enormous pleasure from working with so many talented, committed and exceptional colleagues across the University, including our students, staff and members of the Governing Body. Queen’s is a powerhouse of learning and enterprise, an exceptional University with a distinguished heritage.
"At Queen's, we have the privilege of serving the people of Northern Ireland in so many ways - through our contributions to culture as reflected in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry; to healthcare through the award-winning Centre for Cancer Research; and to economic development through our new portal for business at Riddel Hall."
Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Senate, the Governing Body of Queen’s, Sir David Fell said: "Sir Peter has led Queen's with distinction. He has positioned the University to have global impact through high quality education and translational research and this is an impressive legacy. In 2006, he led Queen’s into the Russell Group as one of the UK’s leading research intensive universities.
"Under Peter’s leadership, Queen’s has secured external recognition of its outstanding contribution and achievements on numerous occasions. In 2009, we were awarded Entrepreneurial University of the Year and, in 2011, we were awarded our fifth Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for Northern Ireland’s Comprehensive Cancer Services Programme."
Pro-Chancellor Rotha Johnston added: "Peter and his wife Rachael have made a remarkable contribution to developing a collegiate University with so many crucial links to society, not only here in Northern Ireland but nationally and internationally."
Speaking of his new role, Professor Gregson said: "As a long-standing champion of the power of university-business-collaboration, I look forward to leading Cranfield with its very close links to business but I will always look back, with fond memories, to my time at Queen’s."
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Professor Sir Peter Gregson said of his time at Queen's: "I have derived enormous pleasure from working with so many talented, committed and exceptional colleagues across the University, including our students, staff and members of the Governing Body. Queen’s is a powerhouse of learning and enterprise, an exceptional University with a distinguished heritage.
"At Queen's, we have the privilege of serving the people of Northern Ireland in so many ways - through our contributions to culture as reflected in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry; to healthcare through the award-winning Centre for Cancer Research; and to economic development through our new portal for business at Riddel Hall."
Pro-Chancellor and Chair of Senate, the Governing Body of Queen’s, Sir David Fell said: "Sir Peter has led Queen's with distinction. He has positioned the University to have global impact through high quality education and translational research and this is an impressive legacy. In 2006, he led Queen’s into the Russell Group as one of the UK’s leading research intensive universities.
"Under Peter’s leadership, Queen’s has secured external recognition of its outstanding contribution and achievements on numerous occasions. In 2009, we were awarded Entrepreneurial University of the Year and, in 2011, we were awarded our fifth Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for Northern Ireland’s Comprehensive Cancer Services Programme."
Pro-Chancellor Rotha Johnston added: "Peter and his wife Rachael have made a remarkable contribution to developing a collegiate University with so many crucial links to society, not only here in Northern Ireland but nationally and internationally."
Speaking of his new role, Professor Gregson said: "As a long-standing champion of the power of university-business-collaboration, I look forward to leading Cranfield with its very close links to business but I will always look back, with fond memories, to my time at Queen’s."
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