Charlie Jeffery has been named the University of Southampton’s next vice-chancellor.
Jeffery, who has led the University of York since 2019, will take up his new role at the south-coast university in October.
The move follows the departure of Southampton’s vice-chancellor Mark E. Smith, who announced in December that he had been appointed a pro vice-chancellor at the University of Oxford.
Jeffery, who currently chairs the N8 Partnership of northern research-intensive universities and Yorkshire Universities, said he was “honoured to be joining the University of Southampton at such an exciting moment”.
“I am hugely impressed by Southampton’s commitment to partnership working in the region and beyond,” said Jeffery, adding it is “more important than ever that universities engage what they do with the communities they serve, and I look forward to building on this rich tradition of civic partnership to deliver impact locally, nationally and globally”.
