Posted on Fri 14 Feb 2020 at 12:56 by
Cecilia Wallback
Hello! This is the delayed post about the University's Senior Management Team that I promised in the last Student Council meeting. After Principal and Vice-Chancellor Prof George Boyne visited our Council meeting for a Q&A session, I was contacted by George's Special Assistant that George had told the SMT about his visit to our Council meeting and that if we ''wanted to invite other members of the SMT to future meetings they would be open to doing so.''
Below I have included a list of Senior Management Team members. If you are interested in inviting a member to a future Student Council meeting, please get in touch with me at ausapresident@abdn.ac.uk. So far this term, we still have one meeting on the 10th of March and on the 21st of April.
It is unfortuantely very late to invite someone for the March meeting (this is my fault as I have been very busy and did not priortise this post) so if you wish for us to invite anyone, then please let me know by the 21st of March. For April, please let me know by 31st of March.
You don't have to be a councillor to invite memebers of the SMT, anyone is welcome to come and asked questions of the people that run our University, and I heartily encourage this!
SMT members:
George Boyne (Principal and Vice-Chancellor)

Vice Principals:
https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/management/vice-principals-71.php
Karl Leydecker (Senior Vice-Principal)

Marion Campbell (Vice Principal Research)
- Institutional Research Strategy
- REF Strategy
- Leadership of institutional research activity
- Graduate School
- Impact & Knowledge Exchange

Richard Wells (Vice Principal International)
- Internationalisation strategy and policies
- International partnerships
- European partnerships
- International campuses

Ruth Taylor (Vice Principal Education)
- Learning and teaching strategy and policies
- Student retention and progression
- Teaching quality assurance and enhancement
- Widening participation
- Student Experience
- Student support

Alan Speight (Vice Principal Student Recruitment)
- Online marketing strategy and recruitment
- Student recruitment and marketing strategy
- Student recruitment (International/Home/EU/RUK)
- Widening access

Other:
Steve Cannon (Interim University Secretary)
Jenny Fernandez (Acting Director of External Relations)
Debbie Dyker (Director of People, Interim Chief Operating Officer)

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/management/directors-83.php#panel900
David Beattie (Director of Finance)

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/management/directors-83.php#panel902
Rob Donelson (Director of Advancement)

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/about/management/directors-83.php#panel903