Paul Boyle
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Professor Paul Boyle in 2012
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| Vice-Chancellor of Swansea University | |
| Assumed office March 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Richard B. Davies |
| Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester | |
| In office 2014–2019 | |
| Preceded by | Sir Robert Burgess |
| Succeeded by | Nishan Canagarajah |
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| Born | (1964-11-16) 16 November 1964 (age 59) |
| Alma mater | Lancaster University University of Colorado |
| Salary | £312,000 (2021–22)[1] |
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Paul Joseph Boyle, CBE, FRSE, FBA, FRSGS, FLSW (born 16 November 1964) is a British geographer, academic, and academic administrator. He was the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester between 2014 and 2019.[2] He had been ProfessorofHuman Geography at the University of St Andrews from 1999 to 2014, and Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 2010 to 2014.[3][4][5] He took over as Vice-ChancellorofSwansea University at the end of the 2018/2019 academic year.[6]
In 2006, Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).[3] In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the social sciences and humanities.[7] In the 2016 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to social science".[8]
In 2022, Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.[9]
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| Preceded by | Vice-ChancellorofSwansea University 2019–Present |
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| Preceded by | Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester 2014–2019 |
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