 David Corner
former Deputy Principal
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom
David Corner recently retired
as Deputy Principal of the University of St Andrews where he gained
fifteen years of experience in managing, at Executive level, virtually
all aspects of a highly-regarded, research-intensive institution. During
his tenure of office, he was responsible for the strategic development
and operational activity of all of the University's academic schools
and oversaw the management of most of its support units. In recent
years, he was the Founding Director of a new institute dedicated to
Social Dimensions of Health which, as a collaborative venture between
the Universities of St Andrews and Dundee, has a research remit to address,
on an international basis, the social, economic and cultural factors
underpinning the health of the public, health inequalities, the abiding
presence of preventable disease and the nature, organisation and delivery
of services set up to deal with health problems; designed and established
the University's new School of Management which has recently been ranked
second in UK league tables and which incorporates a Centre for Public
Policy and Management, with a particular emphasis on health care issues,
and a PharmacoEconomics Research Centre; negotiated and planned
the doubling in size of the University's School of Medicine which recently
topped the UK's student satisfaction ratings; and raised funding for
and engineered programmes in Malawi and Kenya to bring senior healthcare
professionals to St Andrews to study postgraduate programmes in Health
Care Resource Management and Health Geography. Now, in his semi-retirement,
he is the University’s Director of International Projects, managing
three significant initiatives in Pakistan, South Africa and Malawi,
with regard to the last of which he is Project Director, on behalf of
the Scottish Government, of a major programme designed to reform the
content and delivery of the curriculum and the educational and support
infrastructure of Malawi’s College of Medicine in order to allow it
to produce, inter alia, one hundred, rather than sixteen, doctors per
year.
Originally a Fellow in Mediaeval History at the University of Oxford
and still a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of
his several publications on historiography, he has recently been awarded
an Honorary Doctorate of Letters for his academic achievements and an
Honorary Doctorate of Laws for his work in university management and
on many national higher education-related advisory committees. |
