Staff Profile

Roles and Responsibilities

I am responsible for the overall leadership and direction of the Executive and Governance Office, ensuring there is a professional and effective support service for the University's senior management team and oversight of the University's corporate governance functions. I work closely with the Vice-Chancellor, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Registrar and Chair of Council on all matters of University governance and am secretary to University Executive Board.

Background

I have worked at Newcastle University since 2002. Between 2005 and 2017 I worked for the Learning and Teaching Development Service, where I was the Educational Governance Team Manager. Key achievements were writing the submissions and managing preparations for the QAA Institutional Audit in 2009 and QAA Higher Education Review in 2016. Before that I was based in the School of Modern Languages as a Research Associate on an AHRC-funded research project into Nature and Environment in Modern German Literature.

Qualifications 

PhD, thesis on 'The Aestheticization of Green Ideas in German Literature of the 1980s and 1990s', University of Exeter, 2002
MA, Swansea University, 1999
BA (Hons), Swansea University, 1997

Fellow of the Association of University Administrators

• Article

  • Goodbody A, Riordan C, Meacher S. Nature and Environment in Modern German Literature: Theory, Method, Practice. 2006. In Preparation.

• Book Chapters

  • Meacher S. It was shown in the way they stepped in the woods: nature in Hermann Löns and Edward Thomas. In: Mayer S; Gersdorf C, ed. Nature in literary and cultural studies : transatlantic conversations on ecocriticism. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006, pp.355-372.
  • Meacher S. Anthropocentrism in Siegfried Lenz's Exerzierplatz and Die Auflehnung. In: Julian Preece and Osman Durrani, ed. Cityscapes and Countryside in Contemporary German Literature. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2004, pp.209-223.
  • Meacher S. Peter Hartling's "Das Windrad": Anarchy and the Ecosocialist Solution. In: Kohl, K., Robertson, R, ed. Words, Texts, Images. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2002, pp.93-110.