Current members of the Senate
The Senate is made up of members of the Senior Management Team, Deans, Heads of Schools, Senate Assessors on Court, a number of elected members of academic staff and six student members.
A list of all current members of the Senate can be found below.
Principal (Convener)
Professor Dame Sally Mapstone FRSE
Deputy Principal
Professor Brad MacKay
Vice-Principal Education (Proctor)
Professor Clare Peddie
Vice-Principal (Research, Collections and Innovation)
Professor Tom Brown
Deans of Faculty
- AVP Dean of Arts and Divinity (Professor Catherine O’Leary)
- AVP Dean of Science (Professor Gareth Miles)
- Dean of Medicine (Professor Deborah Williamson)
Heads of school
- Art History (Dr Luke Gartlan)
- Biology (Dr Gerald Prescott)
- Business School (Professor Mark Brewer)
- Chemistry (Professor Sharon Ashbrook)
- Classics (Professor Roger Rees)
- Computer Science (Professor Ian Miguel)
- Divinity (Professor William Tooman)
- Earth and Environmental Sciences (Professor Robert Wilson)
- English (Professor Rhiannon Purdie)
- Geography and Sustainable Development (Dr Matthew Sothern)
- History (Professor Caroline Humfress)
- International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute (Professor Eoin Jordan, director)
- International Relations (Professor Fiona McCallum Guiney)
- Mathematics and Statistics (Professor Antonia Wilmot-Smith)
- Medicine (Professor Deborah Williamson)
- Modern Languages (Professor Nicki Hitchcott)
- Philosophical, Anthropological and Film Studies (Professor James Harris)
- Physics and Astronomy (Professor Jonathan Keeling)
- Psychology and Neuroscience (Professor James Ainge)
Due to the formation of the Business School, there are no longer Heads of School for the Schools of Economics and Finance, and Management. The Dean of the Business School is also Head of School (currently Professor Mark Brewer), and there are Heads of Department for Economics, Finance, and Management.
Senate Assessors on University Court
- Professor Margaret Connolly (until 31 July 2028)
- Dr Stephen Tyre (until 31 July 2026)
- Dr Antonis Vradis (until 31 July 2029)
- Professor Allan Watson (until 31 July 2028)
Student members
- Emily Bannister, President of Education (Students' Association)
- Alex Chun, President of Wellbeing and Community (Students' Association)
- Alice Hodges, President of Union Affairs (Students' Association)
- Maya Fenyk, Arts and Divinity Faculty President (Students’ Association)
- Ariane O'Rourke, Science and Medicine Faculty President (Students’ Association)
- Pierluigi Maffi, Postgraduate Taught President
- Amy Hopkins, Postgraduate Research President
Direct electees
Arts
- Dr Mattia Fumanti (until 31 July 2028)
- Dr Stephanie O'Rourke (until 31 July 2028)
- Dr Stavroula Pipyrou (until 31 July 2026)
- Dr Anindya Raychaudhuri (until 31 July 2028)
- Professor Bernhard Struck (until 31 July 2026)
- Casual vacancy (until 31 July 2028)
Life Sciences
- Dr Tracey Gloster (until 31 July 2028)
- Dr Jane Illès (until 31 July 2028)
- Dr Judith Sleeman (until 31 July 2026)
Physical Sciences
- Dr Paul Cruickshank (until 31 July 2026)
- Dr Jason Jacques (until 31 July 2026)
- Dr James Rae (until 31 July 2026)
- Professor Graham Turnbull (until 31 July 2028)
- Dr Michael Young (until 31 July 2028)
Social Sciences
- Dr Ozge Senay (until 31 July 2026)
- Dr Malaka Shwaikh (until 31 July 2028)
- Dr Luca Savorelli (until 31 July 2028)
- Dr Marcel Lukas (until 31 July 2026)
In regular attendance
- Professor Ineke De Moortel, Master of the United College
- Professor Monique MacKenzie, Vice-Principal (Digital Education, Research and Environment)
- Alastair Merrill, Vice-Principal (Governance)
- Ester Ruskuc, Vice-Principal (Strategy, Policy and Planning)
- Dr Rebekah Widdowfield, Vice-Principal (People and Diversity)
- Niall Scott, Vice-Principal (Communications)
- Dr Michael Downes, Director of Music
- Margaret Sinclair, Executive Officer to Senate (Clerk)
- Dr Katie Eagleton, Director of Libraries and Museums