Professor Anderson takes top appointment

Professor Anne Anderson, Head of the College of Arts, Science and Engineering has been appointed to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

Professor Anderson, who is also Vice-Principal of the University, is one of three new appointments the EPSRC has announced to its Council, the senior decision making body responsible for determining its policy, priorities and strategy.

The appointment will be for a period of three years. Members of Council are appointed by the Minister for Science and Innovation and are drawn from both the academic and industrial communities.

Professor Anne Anderson joined the University in 2006 to head the College of Art, Science and Engineering. She holds a Chair in Human Interaction in the School of Computing. Her research investigates the impact of information and communication technologies. She has held many research grants on these topics funded by EPSRC, ESRC, EC and industry.

She has been involved in developing research agendas and securing funding from research councils and government departments. From 1995-2000 she was director of the ESRC Cognitive Engineering programme an initiative that funded 15 projects across the UK on topics concerned with people and information technology.

In 2000 she was appointed director of the People at the Centre of Information and Communication Technologies (PACCIT) programme. This £7 million LINK programme funded by ESRC, EPSRC and the DTI aimed to build research collaborations between the universities and industry.

Professor Anderson was awarded an OBE in 2002.