Career At Queen's University Belfast
Gregson became President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast on 1 August 2004. He has repositioned the University academically, gaining accession to the Russell Group in 2006. An investment of £300m over the past five years in people, services and facilities has included a major restructuring of the School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Science to include the establishment of academic sub-deaneries within four Health and Social Care Trusts and the creation of an Institute of Health Sciences Research focused on translational research in Cancer, Vision Science, Respiratory Disease and Public Health.
Strategic international partnerships have been established with Georgetown University and Seagate Technology (USA), University Malaya and Petronas (Malaysia), National Institute of Immunology and Videocon (India) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University and China Medical University (China).
External recognition has included Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Green Chemistry and the Comprehensive Cancer Centre (2006 & 2012), Times Higher Education Awards for Innovation in Culture and the Arts (2008), Entrepreneurial University of the Year (2009), Engineering Research Team of the Year (2010), Innovative Teacher of the Year (2011) and Outstanding Fundraising Team (2012), and an Athena Swan Institutional Silver Award (2012). He is a Director of QUBIS Ltd, the vehicle which manages the portfolio of Queen’s University spin-out companies. He was appointed Director of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association in 2008 and Director of Association of Commonwealth Universities in 2011.
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