George is accountable for all aspects of the development of the Centre for Health and Social Equity (CHASE). He works closely with the University Executive shaping and delivering the University’s Vision, Strategy and supporting plans.
George ensures Northumbria’s operational sustainability and leads projects to deliver future sustainability. He leads on implementing the University’s Carbon Management Strategy (80 % reduction by 2030 against 2024/15 baseline and Net Zero by 2040).
George provides strategic leadership, vision and ambition in the identification, development and delivery of complex multi-stakeholder projects that transform Northumbria, societies, and economies.
He develops and maintains strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, to maximise opportunities and influence decision makers for the benefit of the University and beyond.
George is the Executive Lead for the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Competence Testing Centre at Northumbria, which is instrumental in supporting the NHS and other organisations by bringing international nurses onto the national register.
CHASE supports all of Northumbria’s 2030 Strategy Ambitions and Commitments. It will build on its current activity to drive excellent research by providing the best facilities and opportunities for collaboration. It will support our educational ambition by providing the latest facilities for experiential and interprofessional learning, while social mobility is core to the CHASE ethos. Reduction in carbon emissions and sustainability more generally is strongly aligned with our sustainability Commitment and Measure of Success around approaching Net Zero. The work of the Competence Test Centre helps Power an Inclusive Economy.
George leads the University’s Strategic Commitment to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He is Chair of the University Sustainability Management Group which oversees the Environmental Management System and related activities and the University’s Health, Safety and Wellbeing Management Group.
George spent two years as a NAS/NRC Resident Research Associate at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Centre. Returning to Oxford as a post-doctoral researcher, he spent periods as a Teaching Lecturer at Christ Church and Somerville College, before taking a lectureship in Chemistry and Earth Observation Science at the University of Leicester in 1994. He moved to the University of Reading in 1995 and was promoted to Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry in 2009. At the University of Reading, George held several management and leadership positions and was Dean of the Faculty of Science from 2011 to 2014.
George went to Newcastle Royal Grammar School and studied chemistry at Oxford at undergraduate and doctoral level.
George’s research has focussed on laboratory and theoretical studies of the spectroscopy and kinetics of species and processes of importance in atmospheric chemistry. He has published in areas related to airglow chemistry, ozone depletion, climate change, urban pollution, and the chemistry of planetary atmospheres. At present, his interests are in particle formation resulting from oxidation processes in the lower atmosphere, and the determination of global warming potentials and radiative efficiencies of various classes of fluorinated compounds.
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