Professor Jane
Entwistle is the Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor for
Engineering and Environment (Interim) at Northumbria University.
As Faculty Pro Vice-Chancellor for Engineering and Environment (interim),
Jane works closely with the University Executive shaping and delivering the
University’s Vision, Strategy and supporting plans.
Jane provides strategic, disciplinary and wider leadership and
vision for the faculty and its academic departments, leading and promoting
cross University working and strategic external partnerships, enabling
empowered people to succeed and be the best they can, and supporting an
inclusive, innovative and high performing culture.
Jane leads and directs the faculty’s activities and drives
performance to achieve transformational change within the context of the
University’s Vision, Strategy, plans, policies and procedures.
Jane is responsible for the overall performance of the faculty, including
all aspects of academic provision, achieving targets and objectives for the
Faculty and University, and for the management, leadership and effective
deployment of the faculty’s resources and estate.
She
fosters innovation and agility in all aspects of the faculty’s activity, ensuring
the faculty is committed to high-quality, professional standards.
Jane
drives the Faculty strategic contribution to the Research Excellence Framework
(REF), Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) and the Knowledge Exchange Framework
(KEF) working closely with Deputy PVCs and Heads of Department, ensuring
quality and academic excellence lie at the heart of them.
Jane is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Fellow of
Royal Geographical Society and Fellow of the Society for Environmental
Geochemistry and Health. She currently
sits on the Evaluation Committee for the Geobiotec Research Unit, University of
Aveiro, Portugal and is a member of the peer review college for the Slovenian
Research and Innovation Agency.
Prior to becoming Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Engineering
and Environment (interim), in March 2024, Jane has held roles as Deputy Pro
Vice-Chancellor for Education, Faculty REF lead and Faculty Associate Pro
Vice-Chancellor (Research & Innovation). Prior to joining Northumbria
University, Jane has held roles as a lectureship in Environmental Science at
Kingston University, a Reader and then Head of Department of Geography and
Environmental Sciences and Professor of Environmental Geochemistry and Health.
Jane studied (BSc and PhD) at the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth.
Jane’s research addresses problems at the interface between
geochemistry and human health. She works in partnership with both academic and
professional practitioners and increasingly with members of the communities
which they serve. Her
involvement in environmental geochemistry extends over 25 years and her
publications and projects evidence a commitment to improve environmental
practice, policy and decision making in a complex real-world environment. The Newcastle
Allotments Biomonitoring Project involved working in close collaboration with the local city
council and a steering group comprising specialists from Public Health England,
the Food Standards Agency, the Environment Agency and the Health and Safety
Laboratory, to better understand exposure and uptake parameters in urban
settings.
Jane is co-founder of DustSafe, a
global research initiative to obtain baseline data on chemicals and microbial
communities in regular households via a global citizen
science-academic partnership and is currently principal investigator on two
exciting interdisciplinary projects: In2Air (NIHR) and ECLIPS (UKRI).
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