chancellor in July 2015. He had previously served as the patron of the university since 2013. In 2013 he opened the university's centre for young entrepreneurs situated in the Buckley Innovation Centre. He resigned in 2019 following a Newsnight interview concerned with his connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and amid student protests against him; the student union had called for his resignation and issued a statement that the university's chancellor was "a man with ties to organised child sexual exploitation and assault."
Since 2020, the chancellor has been businessman and graduate of the university, George W. Buckley.
=== Senior management ===
The university is run by the vice-chancellor, Professor Bob Cryan. Underneath him is deputy vice-chancellor, Professor Tim Thornton, and three pro vice-chancellors. Each of the five academic schools is led by a dean, with a seventh dean who oversees the graduate school. The university previously had seven schools, but the former schools of Art, Design and Architecture and Music, Humanities and Media merged in 2021 to form the school of Arts and Humanities. Other university services are run by directors.
== Academic profile ==
=== Academic schools ===
The university is organised into the following academic schools:
Applied Sciences
Arts and Humanities
Computing and Engineering
School of Business, Education and Law
Human and Health Sciences
=== Research ===
The university has world-leading applied research groups in biomedical sciences, engineering and physical sciences, social sciences and arts and humanities. It has quadrupled its research income and its number of postgraduate researchers in recent years.
In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) exercise, the University of Huddersfield achieved its best ever result. It rose to 68th in the UK Research Power league table, having been placed 97th in the 2008 REF. More University of Huddersfield academics, 262, were entered than in any previous cycle, and the proportion of world leading research …
