Professor Sasha Roseneil was elected to the UUK UK Board on 1 August 2024. She has been the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Sussex since 2022.
Professor Roseneil was UCL’s first Pro-Provost for Equity and Inclusion and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences. Professor Roseneil has held leadership positions at the University of Essex, Birkbeck, University of London, and the University of Leeds. She is a sociologist, group analyst, psychotherapist, and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Professor Roseneil is a member of the Institute of Group Analysis and a Founding Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council.
Professor Roseneil has played a leading role in the establishment of the interdisciplinary fields of Gender Studies and Psychosocial Studies, and she has published widely on personal life and intimate relationship, citizenship, social movements, and social change.
One thing I love about my job is that universities are places where the most difficult questions are asked, where conventional wisdom is challenged, and rigorous methods of inquiry are applied to advance understandings of the problems faced by humanity. It is an enormous privilege to be charged with stewardship of a great institution that is committed to changing lives and transforming the world.