Geoffrey Crossick
British academian
Geoffrey Joel Crossick (born 13 June 1946) is a British academic who is Professor of Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, a postgraduate school of the University of London. He was Vice-Chancellor of London University from 2010 to 2012.
Early life
The son of Louis Crossick and Rebecca Naomi née Backen, Crossick was educated at the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School Elstree, before going to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read history, graduating as a BA in 1967. He then pursued further research historical at Birkbeck College, London, where he took a PhD in 1976.
Career
Elected a Research Fellow in History at Emmanuel College, Cambridge from 1970 to 1973, Crossick then became a lecturer in Social History at the University of Hull from 1973 to 1978. In 1979 he joined the University of Essex becoming a Reader then Professor of History from 1991 to 2002 before becoming Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1997 to 2002.
Crossick was Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board from 2002 to 2005 and Warden of Goldsmiths College from 2005 to 2010. He was Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 2010 to 2012.
Crossick was visiting professor of the University of Lyon from 1990 to 1991. He has been a member of the Business and Community Strategy Committee, and later Enterprise and Skills Strategy Committee of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) from 2005 to 2012.
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