Rosemary Deem

Rosemary Deem is Dean of History and Social Sciences and Professor of Higher Education Management. She is also Visiting Professor of Education at Bristol University and Visiting Professor of Management at Leicester University.

Until January 2009 she was Professor of Education and Research Director for Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol. An Academician of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, Rosemary is a sociologist who has also worked at Loughborough, York, the Open and Lancaster Universities and the former North Staffordshire Polytechnic. At Lancaster University she was Head of the Department of Educational Research (1992-4), Dean of Social Sciences (19994-7) and Founding Director of the University Graduate School  (1998-2000).

She was director of the UK Learning and Teaching Support Network Education Subject Centre ESCalate from 2001-2004, a UK Education Research Assessment Exercise panellist in 1996, 2001 and 2008, has twice chaired the British Sociological Association and was Vice-Chair of the Society for Research into Higher Education from 2007-2009. From 2001-2005 she was joint editor of the Blackwells international journal The Sociological Review and is currently on the Editorial Board of Studies in Higher Education, Equal Opportunities International, Higher Education and Higher Education Quarterly.

She has just completed co-directing (with colleagues from Cardiff Business School) a UK Economic and Social Research Council funded project on change agency and leadership development in UK public services. Recent publications include (with S. Hillyard and M. Reed, 2007). Knowledge, Higher Education and the New Managerialism: The Changing Management of UK Universities. Oxford, Oxford University Press & (Ed with Epstein, D., R. Boden, F. Rizvi,  and S .Wright, 2007). Geographies of Knowledge, Geometries of Power: Higher Education in the 21st Century; World Year Book of Education 2007. New York, RoutledgeFalmer.

• Listen to a podcast of Rosemary’s Inaugural Lecture from 11/02/10 entitled “The 21st century University – dilemmas of leadership and organisational futures”