University Structure

The University is led and managed by the Vice-Chancellor and Executive Board. More about our management and governance and our charity status and requirements.

University staff and students

Around 5,000 staff work at the University:

  • Principal Officers involved with the management of the University
  • academic staff involved in teaching and research
  • professional and support service staff supporting the academic framework through a number of corporate activities, led and managed by the Registrar.

For a distribution of staff by role see staff and student numbers collated by our Press Office.

Supporting our mission statement

Arising from the mission statement, we have three core academic functions: research and innovation; teaching and learning, and the student experience; and engagement. Strategic leadership of each of these areas is provided, on a university-wide basis, by a pro-vice-chancellor.

Delivery occurs in our three core academic structures, each also led and managed by a pro-vice-chancellor:

Each faculty consists of a number of academic units, typically a school or a research institute. More about our teaching and research structure.

This is the academic map of the University, in which we envisage the faculties as vertical columns, with the core functions as cross-cutting institutional activities.