University of Plymouth
Judith Petts holds a BA (Hons) in Geography from Exeter University in 1975, Professor Judith Petts, CBE, went out into the commercial world, including international banking (Barclays International) and a retail planning consultancy company, returning to research posts at Nottingham University and then Loughborough University from 1980. She completed her Ph.D. by publications (Loughborough University) in 1996: "Risk Management at the Local Authority Level: Managing the Technical Institutional-Public Interface". She was a lecturer/senior lecturer in the Centre for Hazard and Risk Management, Loughborough from 1987, becoming Centre Director in 1997.
In 1999, Professor Petts was appointed to the Chair in Environmental Risk Management at the University of Birmingham and became Head of the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences in 2001/2. In 2007 she was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor, taking the Research and Knowledge Transfer portfolio. In 2010 Judith moved to the University of Southampton to become the inaugural Dean of the new Faculty of Social and Human Sciences and then in January 2014 was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise.
Professor Petts moved to take up her appointment as Vice-Chancellor of Plymouth University in February 2016.
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