Chris Husbands

Chris Husbands (born 29 May 1959) is a British academic, educationist, university leader and public servant who has been Vice-Chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University since January 2016.

He was educated at King Edward VI College, Nuneaton, Emmanuel College, Cambridge (BA, 1980; PhD, 1985) and the Institute of Education, London University (PGCE, 1984). He was Professor of Education (1998-2003) and Director of the Institute of Education at the University of Warwick (2000-2003), Professor of Research in Education and Head of the School of Education and Lifelong Learning at the University of East Anglia (2003-2007), and Professor of Education Policy (2007-2015) and Director of the Institute of Education, University of London (2011-2015), which he led into merger with University College London in 2014, becoming Vice Provost for Academic Development at UCL. The Institute of Education was rated first in the word for education in the QS university rankings in 2014, 2015 and 2016, and was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher Education in 2015.

He began his working life as a teacher in urban comprehensive high schools before his career in higher education. His academic expertise lies in education policy and improvement, and particularly in policy in relation to teachers and teaching in schools. His work has been disseminated in fifteen books and over four hundred conference presentations and papers.

He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011, is Visiting Professor in Global Education Policy at East China Normal University and Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

His public service includes board memberships at the Training and Development Agency for Schools (2005-2012), the Assessment and Qualifications Alliance (2003-2007), Edexcel (2000-2003), Universities UK (2012-2013), the Higher Education Statistics Agency (2016 -) and Sheffield College (2016 -). In July 2016, he was appointed by the UK government to chair the Teaching Excellence Framework for UK higher education.

2016 (with David Scott, Roger Slee and Mayumi Terano) Policy Learning and Educational Change (Sage)

2016 Voices in the air: making sense of policy and practice in education (IOE Press)

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