Pro Vice-Chancellor, Further Education & Widening Participation and Executive Dean Canterbury, Maidstone & Rochester
Professor Seymour Roworth-Stokes
Key responsibilities:
- Strategic leadership for Further Education & Widening Participation
- Academic portfolio leadership and management for the Kent based faculties
- Fiscal and resource management for academic delivery for the Kent faculties
- Raising educational standards, attainment and life chances for a wide community of participants to discover creative talents in an open and shared style through the delivery of a diverse portfolio of innovative engagement activities
- Creative arts engagement advocate
Biography:
Professor Roworth-Stokes has a background in the creative industries as a design consultant and has over 20 years' experience of higher education as an academic and senior manager. He is Chair of the International Design Research Society Council and his personal research interests include academic entrepreneurship, creative entrepreneurship, design management and the determinants of design group performance.
Seymour is a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and is Chair of the Knowledge Transfer Catalyst, Fellowship, and BBC collaborative award Panels.
A regular contributor to major national and international conferences he has particular expertise in the areas of research, business development, public/private sector partnerships, public relations and international development.
