Shearer West

Shearer Carroll West CBE is a British-American art-historian, academic and university administrator. West is currently the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham since October 2017 and formerly deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield.[1]

Biography and career

West holds an undergraduate degree in art history and English from the College of William & Mary, in Virginia, and a PhD in art history from the University of St Andrews.[2]

She was previously head of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford, director of research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham.[3][4][5]

West was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours for services to higher education.

Controversy and COVID-19 response

In the 2020/21 academic year, students of the University of Nottingham organised large-scale campaigning against West, asking for wider academic, welfare, and financial support for students, due to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic. [6][7][8]

As of the 4th February, the university administration initiated a safety net policy, for a variety of assignment types, in partial compliance with student demands. However demands for a wider university policy to support students with welfare support have yet to be made, with further complaints arising due to minimal financial support being provided to home students and additional issues arising for international students - resulting in a number of go-fund me pages being created to help international students pay their tuition.[9] [10]

Student campaigners are yet to comment on the development of this situation.

Selected publications
  • The Image of the Actor: Verbal and Visual Representation in the Age of Garrick and Kemble, Palgrave MacMillan, 1991. ISBN 0312057385
  • Fin De Siecle: Art and society in an age of uncertainty, The Overlook Press, 1994.
  • The visual arts in Germany 1897-1940: Utopia and Despair, Rutgers University Press, 2001. ISBN 0813529115
  • Portraiture, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. (Oxford History of Art)

References
  1. Cass, Liz (2017). "New Vice-Chancellor for Nottingham" (Press release). University of Nottingham.
  2. "Shearer West named as next Nottingham v-c". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 22 May 2017.
  3. "University of Sheffield announces the appointment of new Deputy Vice-Chancellor - News releases - News - The University of Sheffield". University of Sheffield. 2015-03-25. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
  4. "Oxford Alumni / Professor Shearer West". University of Oxford. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
  5. "Professor Shearer West". Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Retrieved 2015-10-16.
  6. "University of Nottingham rent protesters offered 'support package'". BBC News. 2021-01-08. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  7. "UoN students have created a new group to protest their treatment during the pandemic". University of Nottingham. 2021-01-05. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  8. "Editorial: Russell Group Student Newspapers For No-Detriment Policy". Impact Magazine. 2021-01-21. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  9. "Student Update". University of Nottingham.
  10. "Student news - New safety net measures introduced - University of Nottingham". www.nottingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-02-05.
Academic offices
Preceded by
David Greenaway		 Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
1 October 2017 – present		 Succeeded by
Incumbent


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