Vice-Chancellor's Board

Vice-Chancellor

Professor Antony J Chapman
BSc, PhD, Hon DSc, C.Psychol, FBPsS, FRSA, AcSS

Tony Chapman is a former pupil of Milford Haven Grammar School and Bexley Grammar School and returned to Wales in 1998 for his current position, UWIC Vice-Chancellor.  His degrees are from the University of Leicester. He was previously a senior lecturer at UWIST (now Cardiff University) before joining Leeds University in 1983 as Professor of Psychology and Head of Department. Later in Leeds he became Dean of Science and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, and was a Visiting Professor from 1998 to 2003.  During 2004 to 2007 he was the Senior Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales.

With others he has published 15 books, 3 book series and about 125 scientific papers. He has presented some 250 research papers in over 25 countries overseas. His research has been funded by the ESRC/SSRC, EPSRC, MRC, and the EU/CEC, as well by various government departments/agencies and other sources.  For 6 years he was the editor of the British Journal of Psychology, and for many years he was the editor-in-chief/editor of Current Psychology. He served on Research Assessment (RAE) Panels for the funding councils in 1992 and 1996 and was Vice-Chairman of the ESRC Training Board.  He was a founding director of Sound Alert Ltd, a business in directional sound alarms, which won The 1997 Prince of Wales Award for Innovation.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society – one of about a dozen UK psychologists - in a Society of some 50,000 members, elected for his “research and leadership”. He is an Academician in the UK Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (AcSS) – one of 60 founding Academicians – elected for his “exceptional, distinguished and substantial contributions to the Social Sciences”

He has been President of the Psychology Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, President of the British Psychological Society, President of the Association of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, Chair of the UK Deans of Science Committee, Chair of Higher Education Wales, and a Vice-President of Universities UK (UUK).

He is a member of the Council of the All Party Parliamentary University Group; a member of the Council for Industry in Higher Education (CIHE), the Board of the University and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS), the Board of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), the Council of CBI-Wales and the Advisory Committee of the London School of Commerce.  Until 2006 he was a Board Member of the Universities and Colleges Employers’ Association (UCEA) and of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), for which he chaired the Access Recognition and Licensing Committee and the Advisory Committee for Wales.  Until 2007 he was a Board Member of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.  Within Universities UK he has been a member of the Board and until 2006 he was a member of the Longer Term Strategy Group, the Finance and Resources Strategy Group, and the Business and Industry Sector Strategy Group. He is a member of the UUK's International and EU Policy Committee.

Tony Chapman is married to Dr Siriol David, a Forensic Psychologist.  They have two sons at university, and they live in Cardiff with their two teenage daughters. 

Contact Details:

Telephone:	029 2041 6101
Fax:	029 2041 6910
Email:	ajchapman@uwic.ac.uk

 

Personal Assistant:    Melanie Bent

Telephone:	029 2041 6101
Fax:	029 2041 6910
Email:	mbent@uwic.ac.uk

 

Personal Assistant:    Christine Clarkson

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Fax:	029 2041 6910
Email:	cclarkson@uwic.ac.uk