Steve Decent
Stephen Paul Decent is a British applied mathematician and university administrator who has served as the principal and vice-chancellor of Glasgow Caledonian University since January 2023. He has previously held a number of senior leadership positions across different universities and holds research interests in free-surface flows and hydrogen fuel cells. In March 2025, he was announced as the eighth vice-chancellor of Lancaster University and will succeed Andy Schofield in January 2026. Early life and education The first member of his own family to go to university, Decent holds a BSc in mathematics from Brunel University and a PhD from the University of St Andrews. His doctoral thesis was on the theory of wave motion and was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. Career After completing his PhD, Decent joined the University of Birmingham as a research fellow and was eventually promoted to the head of the School of Mathematics. He then moved to th ...
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Glasgow Caledonian University
Glasgow Caledonian University, informally GCU, Caledonian or Caley (), is a public university in Glasgow, Scotland. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Queen's College, Glasgow (founded in 1875) and Glasgow Polytechnic (originally Glasgow College of Technology (GCT), founded in 1971). It is located in the Cowcaddens district, just to the immediate north of the Glasgow city centre, city centre, and is Glasgow's third university, after the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde. In June 2017, the university's New York partner institution, which was founded in 2013, was granted permission to award degrees in the state, the first higher education institution founded by a foreign university to achieve this status. In June 2023, GCU noted that they planned to sell their New York campus as it had not lived up to its potential. On 31 July 2024, it was announced that IE University had acquired Glasgow Caledonian New York College and would be renaming it IE New Y ...
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Date Of Birth Missing (living People)
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Academics Of Manchester Metropolitan University
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Fellows Of The Institute Of Mathematics And Its Applications
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Principals By University In Scotland
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People Associated With Glasgow Caledonian University
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Alumni Of The University Of St Andrews
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from "to nourish". The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former members of an organization, former contributors, or former inmates. Etymology The Latin noun means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from the Latin verb "to nourish". Separate, but from the same root, is the adjective "nourishing", found in the phrase '' alma mater'', a title for a person's home university. Usage in Roman law In Latin, is a legal term (Roman law) to describe a child placed in foste ...
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Place Of Birth Missing (living People)
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Living People
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