Professor Shân Wareing

Professor Shân Wareing, Vice Chancellor, Middlesex University

Professor Shân Wareing is the Vice-Chancellor of Middlesex University, having taken up the role in April 2024. She was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Northampton, and other executive roles she has held include Chief Operating Officer at London South Bank University and Pro Vice-Chancellor Learning and Teaching at Buckinghamshire New University.

Shan has a track record of successful institutional transformation projects, including digital transformation of the student journey at London South Bank University, which won a PwC award, and recruitment improvements at the University of Northampton, leading to an uplift in recruitment of 18-year-old students, ahead of comparable higher education institutions.

Shân’s first job was as a Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Roehampton, before she moved into the field of Education Development, during which period she was Co-Chair of the Staff and Educational Development Association. She is a National Teaching Fellow, and a Trustee of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education in England and Wales (OIA).

She has held national roles including Chair of the charity, Unite Foundation, Chair of Advance-HE’s Leadership and Management Strategic Advisory Group, and has published in the fields of linguistics, equality, diversity and inclusion, leadership and team development, and learning and teaching in higher education. Her current scholarly interests are leadership and governance from the perspective of diversity and inclusion, and higher education policy.