Tim Blackman

{{Short description|Sociologist and university executive}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

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| name = Tim Blackman

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| birth_place = Gravesend, Kent, UK

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| term_end = October 2024

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| term_start = 1 October 2019

| successor1 = Nic Beech

| term_end1 = 2019

| term_start1 = 2015

| office1 = Vice-chancellor of the Middlesex University

| office = Vice-chancellor of the Open University

| occupation = Academic

| education = Durham University

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Tim Blackman is a British academic. He has been the vice-chancellor of the Open University since October 2019.{{Cite web|title=Professor Tim Blackman steps down as Middlesex University Vice-Chancellor|url=https://www.mdx.ac.uk/news/2019/05/professor-tim-blackman-steps-down-as-middlesex-university-vice-chancellor|access-date=2021-07-06|website=Middlesex University}} It was announced in 2024 that owing to ill-health he would step-down from his position.https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/news/around-ou/university-news/vicechancellor/ He previously was the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University from 2015 to 2019.{{Cite web|title=Professor Tim Blackman FAcSS appointed as The Open University's new Vice-Chancellor|url=https://www.acss.org.uk/news/professor-tim-blackman-facss-appointed-as-the-open-universitys-new-vice-chancellor/|access-date=2021-07-06|website=Academy of Social Sciences|language=en-GB}}

At The Open University he was partly responsible for moving 4000+ teaching staff onto permanent contracts {{Cite web|title=De-casualisation deal for tutors|url=https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/news/around-ou/decasualisation-deal-for-tutors/}} and soon after he initiated the institute's first use of 'fire and rehire' of Associate Lecturers, The Open University disputes this characterisation of events. The measures were introduced to end the practice of Associate Lecturers working excessive hours, with some lecturers having contracts totalling in excess of 100 hours a week. {{Cite web|title=Open University threatens fire and rehire.|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/open-university-threatened-strike-fire-and-rehire-row}}