Paul Boyle
{{Short description|British geographer (born 1964)}}
{{for|the rugby player|Paul Boyle (rugby union)}}
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| office = Vice-Chancellor of Swansea University
| term_start = March 2019
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| predecessor = Richard B. Davies
| office1 = Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester
| term_start1 = 2014
| term_end1 = 2019
| predecessor1 = Sir Robert Burgess
| successor1 = Nishan Canagarajah
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| salary = £312,000 (2021–22){{cite web |title=Annual Review 2022 |url=https://www.swansea.ac.uk/media/Annual-Review-2022.pdf |publisher=Swansea University |access-date=21 February 2023}}
| alma_mater = Lancaster University
University of Colorado
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Paul Joseph Boyle, {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE|FRSE|FBA}}, FRSGS, FLSW (born 16 November 1964) is a British geographer, academic, and academic administrator. He was the vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester between 2014 and 2019.{{cite web |url=https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/university-leicester-vice-chancellor-paul-2610144 |title=Why University of Leicester vice-chancellor Paul Boyle is leaving his £285k job |last=Martin |first=Dan |date=5 March 2019 |website=Leicester Mercury |publisher= |access-date=17 October 2019 |quote=}} He had been Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews from 1999 to 2014, and Chief Executive of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) from 2010 to 2014.'BOYLE, Prof. Paul Joseph', Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U260493 accessed 8 Oct 2017]{{cite web|title=The President and Vice-Chancellor: Professor Paul Boyle CBE FBA FRSE|url=https://le.ac.uk/about/governance-management/vc-office/president-vc|website=University of Leicester|accessdate=8 October 2017|archive-date=9 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009092428/https://le.ac.uk/about/governance-management/vc-office/president-vc|url-status=dead}}{{cite news|last1=Elmes|first1=John|title=Q&A with Paul Boyle|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/people/qa-with-paul-boyle/2016973.article|accessdate=8 October 2017|work=Times Higher Education|date=20 November 2014}} He took over as vice-chancellor of Swansea University at the end of the 2018/2019 academic year.{{cite web |title=New head unveiled at Swansea University |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-47457111 |website=BBC News |accessdate=5 March 2019 |date=5 March 2019}}
Honours
In 2006, Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE). In 2013, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the social sciences and humanities.{{cite web|title=Professor Paul Boyle|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/users/professor-paul-boyle|website=The British Academy|accessdate=8 October 2017}} In the 2016 New Year Honours, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) "for services to social science".{{London Gazette |issue= 61450 |date= 30 December 2015 |page= N8 |supp= y }}
In 2022, Boyle was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.{{Cite web |last=Wales |first=The Learned Society of |title=Paul Boyle |url=https://www.learnedsociety.wales/fellow/paul-boyle/ |access-date=2023-08-29 |website=The Learned Society of Wales |language=en-US}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |editor1=Boyle, Paul |editor2=Halfacree, Keith |title=Migration and Gender in the Developed World |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mMKEAgAAQBAJ |year=2002 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1-134-69513-3 }}
- {{cite book |last1=Boyle |first1=Paul |last2=Halfacree |first2=Keith H. |last3=Robinson |first3=Vaughan |title=Exploring Contemporary Migration |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8HHJAwAAQBAJ |date=2014 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1-317-89087-4 }}
References
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Category:Academics of the University of Leicester
Category:Academics of the University of St Andrews
Category:Fellows of the British Academy
Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh