Professor Philip Jones
Vice-Chancellor
Professor
Philip Jones had been Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University since
2007. He was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Sub-Warden at Durham University
(2004-2007), with responsibilities for strategic planning and external relations.
Prior to that he had been a Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sheffield
(1998-2004), with responsibilities for learning and teaching, student services
and information services.
His academic background is in law. He spent the first half of his career at the Polytechnic of Central London and the second half at the University of Sheffield where he moved in 1992, becoming Dean of the Faculty of Law in 1996 and was appointed to a personal chair in 1998. He advised the Law Society and the Bar Council on the structure of professional legal education and advised the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) and National Council for Vocational Qualifications (NCVQ) on the structure of professional vocational qualifications.
Since joining Sheffield Hallam University he has become a director of the National Science Learning Centre and Yorkshire Universities and a trustee of the ENTHUSE Charitable Trust. He is also a member of the Universities UK (UUK) Teacher Education Advisory Group (TEAG) and Student Experience Policy Committee (SEPC); the All Party Parliamentary University Group (APUG) and the University Alliance. He is a member of numerous local and regional groups and committees, including the Sheffield City Region Local Enterprise Partnership.
In 2010 he was appointed chair of the Quality in Higher Education Group which provides oversight of the Quality Assurance Framework for UUK, Guild HE, the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and the Department for Employment and Learning (DELNI), and in the same year was appointed chair of Yorkshire Universities, the regional higher education association for universities in Yorkshire and the Humber.
He is a member of the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) and an associate editor of the International Journal of the Legal Profession.
