Archie Clements

Archie Clements joined University of Plymouth in September 2022 as the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research and Innovation. As DVC R&I, he is a member of the University Executive Group, and am responsible for leading the development and implementation of the University’s research strategy. He chairs the University Research and Innovation Committee, the University Research Ethics and Integrity Committee and the Strategic Institutes Steering Group. He has a concurrent appointment as Professor of Global Health in the Peninsula Medical School. Prior to joining University of Plymouth, he was Pro Vice-Chancellor leading the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University in Western Australia and Director of the Research School of Population Health at the Australian National University. He is an infectious disease epidemiologist and has studied the spatial epidemiology of parasitic, bacterial and viral diseases, predominantly in tropical regions of the world. He also worked on community-based intervention studies exploring the role of multi-component, integrated strategies for sustainable infectious disease control. As of September 2022, he has co-authored approximately 300 peer-reviewed publications and been a chief investigator on competitively awarded research grants valued at over £18M.