Professor Amanda Coffey has been appointed Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of University of Staffordshire and will take up the role on 1 March 2027.
She brings more than three decades of experience across the UK higher education sector, including ten years at university executive level. She joins University of Staffordshire from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), where she has been Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost since 2020.
As UWE’s chief academic officer, Professor Coffey has been responsible for learning and teaching, research and enterprise, academic quality and standards, academic schools and colleges, the student experience, student success and the development of the academic portfolio to support strategic growth. Professor Coffey was appointed as fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011.
Before joining UWE, she spent around 30 years at Cardiff University, progressing through a range of academic and senior leadership roles.
A social scientist by background, Professor Coffey’s academic expertise lies in social policy and qualitative research.