Howard Newby

Sir Howard Newby CBE (born December 10, 1947 ) is a British sociologist and was rector (Vice-Chancellor) of the University of Liverpool until December 2014 . His specialty is social change in rural England. For several years he worked for the UK government as a commissioner for the social and economic development of rural areas.

Life

Sir Howard Newby grew up in Derby ( Derbyshire ). He attended school in Etwall and then on a scholarship to Atlantic College in Wales . From 1967 he studied sociology at the University of Essex and graduated with a BA and PhD. In total, he stayed there for 21 years. From 1980 to 1983 he was Professor of Sociology and Agricultural Sociology at the University of Wisconsin – Madison . After his return to Essex, he became Dean of the Faculty of Comparative Studies in 1983 . At the same time, he became head of the data archive for the Social Science Research Council, a national body for the storage and distribution of computerized data for researchers in the private and public sectors. From 1988 to 1994 he was chairman of the research agency, which has now been restructured and renamed the Economic and Social Research Council . In 1994 he returned to the university. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Southampton until 2001 . During this time he was President of Universities UK , the association of British universities, from 1999 to 2001 . From 2001 to 2002 he was President of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. In October 2001 he was appointed Chairman of the Board of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE). He then became Vice Chancellor of the University of the West of England (UWE) in 2006 . After less than 15 months at UWE, it was announced in July 2007 that he would take over the position of Vice-Chancellor at the University of Liverpool from September 2008 .

Newby was 1995 Commander of the Order of the British Empire appointed and for his contributions to the Economic and Social Sciences in 2000 for his contributions to higher education for Knight Bachelor beaten. He is also a member of the Railway Heritage Committee .

literature

• Howard Newby: The deferential worker: a study of farm workers in East Anglia . Allen Lane, London 1977, ISBN 978-0-7139-0892-3 .
• Howard Newby: Green and pleasant land ?: social change in rural England . Penguin, Harmondsworth [etc.] 1980, ISBN 978-0-14-022252-4 .
• Howard Newby: Country life: a social history of rural England . Weidenfeld Nicholson, London 1987, ISBN 978-0-297-79063-1 .
• Howard Newby: The countryside in question . Hutchinson, London 1988, ISBN 978-0-09-173104-5 .
• Howard Newby, David Rose, Gordon Marshall, Carol Vogler: Social Class in Modern Britain . Routledge, 1989, ISBN 978-0-415-09876-2 .
• David N. Lee et al. a .: The Problem of Sociology . Routledge, London, New York 1995, ISBN 978-0-415-09453-5 .
• Howard Newby: The National Trust: the next hundred years . National Trust, London 1995, ISBN 978-0-7078-0231-2 .

Web links

• Lee Elliot Major: Newby attacks funding system. Times Higher Education Supplement, February 10, 2006, accessed June 28, 2010 . 
• Matthew Taylor: Tuition fee increase to £ 5,000 predicted by 2010. The Guardian, February 9, 2006, accessed June 28, 2010 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} TU Berlin: Queen's Lecture 2002: Change without giving up. Retrieved July 1, 2010 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} University of Liverpool: curriculum vitae. (PDF; 228 kB) (No longer available online.) July 2007, archived from the original on September 9, 2010 ; accessed on June 13, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Higher Education Funding Council for England: Biography Sir Newby. Retrieved June 28, 2010 (English). 
4. ^ ^{A b c} Times Higher Education: Private face of a public funder. February 15, 2002, accessed June 28, 2010 . 
5. ↑ ESCR: Forty years of social science research. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 19, 2010 ; accessed on June 28, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ University of Liverpool: Sir Howard Newby appointed Liverpool Vice-Chancellor. July 6, 2007, accessed June 27, 2010 . 
7. ^ Peter Briggs: The BA at the end of the 20th Century: A personal account. (No longer available online.) British Association, archived from the original on April 19, 2011 ; accessed on June 28, 2010 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 507 kB)  
8. ^ University of Liverpool: Sir Howard Newby appointed Liverpool Vice-Chancellor. July 6, 2007, accessed June 27, 2010 . 
9. ^ Anthea Lipsett: Will the Newby broom sweep clean? In: guardian.co.uk. July 23, 2007, accessed June 27, 2010 . 
10. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 53893, HMSO, London, December 30, 1994, pp. 8-9 ( PDF , accessed August 10, 2010, English). PDF; 127 kB
11. ^ London Gazette  (Supplement). No. 55879, HMSO, London, June 19, 2000, p. 1 ( PDF , accessed August 10, 2010, English). (PDF; 368 kB)
12. ^ Railway Heritage Committee: Members. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 21, 2008 ; Retrieved June 27, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.