{"id":211,"date":"2013-07-23T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=211"},"modified":"2013-07-23T12:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:00:51","slug":"prof-tim-blackman-principal-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/archives\/211","title":{"rendered":"Prof Tim Blackman – Principal Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prof Tim Blackman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Role<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tim Blackman is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at The Open University, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Scholarship and Quality, and a member of the University's Executive team. As Principal Investigator on the OU's Catalyst project Tim acts as a high-level strategic champion for the project, ensuring senior management commitment to delivery of the programme.<\/p>\n

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Profile<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tim Blackman joined the OU from Durham University where he was Dean of the University's campus in Stockton-on-Tees and Director of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing. A Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, he graduated in Geography and studied at Durham for a PhD in Urban Sociology. He was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences in 2004.<\/p>\n

Tim was previously Head of the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham (2005-07), Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Teesside (2000-2004), Deputy Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Law at Oxford Brookes University (1995-2000), and Head of Research at Newcastle City Council (1990-95).<\/p>\n

Contact<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor Tim Blackman<\/p>\n

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research, Scholarship and Quality)<\/p>\n

The Open University
\nWalton Hall
\nMilton Keynes
\nMK7 6AA<\/p>\n

Telephone: +44 (0)1908 654859<\/p>\n

Email: PVC-RS@open.ac.uk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Role Tim Blackman is Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at The Open University, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research, Scholarship and Quality, and a member of the University's Executive team. As Principal Investigator on the OU's Catalyst project Tim acts as a high-level strategic champion for the project, ensuring senior management commitment to delivery of the ...continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblab.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}