Professor Mark Thompson

Senior Pro-Vice Chancellor with special responsibility for Resources

(0116 252 2323 mpt3@le.ac.uk)

Professor Mark Thompson gained an LL.B. degree from the University of Leicester in 1978 and an LL.M. from the University of Keele in 1981. Having held Lectureships at the Universities of Keele and Essex, he was appointed to a Lectureship at the University of Leicester in 1985. He was appointed Professor of Law in the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1991, where he was Head of Department between 1993 and 1995.

In 1996, he returned to Leicester, this time as Professor of Law. He was Head of Department between 1999 and 2002 and became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Resources) in 2004. Amongst the Committees which he chairs are the Budgets and Resources Committee, the Staff Management Group and the Staffing Committee.

Professor Thompson is a specialist in Property Law. Having previously acted as a consultant to the Law Commission, he is the author, or co-author, of nine books as well as numerous articles.

Ms Christine Fyfe

Pro-Vice Chancellor with special responsibility for Students

(0116 252 2320 cf60@le.ac.uk)

Christine Fyfe achieved a BA degree in English Literature at the University of Bristol. Following a year as a SCONUL Graduate Trainee at the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, she was awarded an MA (with distinction) in Librarianship at the University of Sheffield. In 2000 she obtained an MBA from the Open University. After working in a range of professional roles at Keele University Library including Assistant Director, she became Deputy Librarian at the University of Warwick in 1996. In 2002 she came to the University of Leicester as University Librarian.

Her professional interests include strategic management of libraries, the development of the digital library and service innovation. She has served as Chair of the United Kingdom Serials Group and is currently a member of the SCONUL Executive Board and the COUNTER Executive Board.

She serves on a number of publisher library advisory boards along with senior academic librarians from a range of countries and delivers annual sessions at two international publishing seminars on the theme of developments in academic libraries.

She became Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Students) in 2007 with a particular focus on the student experience.

Professor Kevin Schürer

Pro-Vice-Chancellor with special responsibility for Research and Enterprise

(0116 252 2320 ks291@le.ac.uk)

Professor Schürer is Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University of Leicester and will hold a chair in the Centre for English Local History. Prior to coming to Leicester served, since 2000, as Director of the UK Data Archive (UKDA). Prior to becoming Director of the UKDA, he worked for several years as a member of the internationally-renowned Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge. Following this, he moved to a teaching position at the Department of History, University of Essex, also serving as Research Director and Director of the Centre for Local and Regional History.

He is an Academician of the Academy for the Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and the Royal Geographical Society, and a Senior Member of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He has served on behave of the ESRC and AHRC as the UK representative for the European Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) working group in Social Science and Humanities and was previously President of the Council of European Social Science Data Archives. He is also a member of the British Library’s Advisory Council, the Research Libraries Network Advisory Committee, and several other the national and international committees.  He recently acted as PI on a EC-funded project seeking to create a more fully-integrated social science data infrastructure across Europe via the establishment of a new European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC), and in 2009 received a major award from the ESRC to create a standardised and harmonised version of the censuses for Great Britain for 1851 to 1911 (the I-CeM project), working with a commercial partner to create one of the largest historical data resources in the world.

His publications include Surveying the people (1992), The use of occupations in historical analysis (1992),  A guide to historical data files in machine-readable form (1992); Victorian communities in census enumerator’s books (1996), and Changing family size in England and Wales. Place, class and demography, 1891-1911 (2001) as well as a number of chapter and journal articles.