Shearer West

Shearer West is a British-American art-historian, academic and university administrator. She is currently the deputy vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield and in May 2017, she was announced as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, to take office in October 2017.

West holds an undergraduate degree in art history and English from the College of William & Mary, in Virginia, and a PhD in art history from the University of St Andrews.

She was previously head of the Humanities division at the University of Oxford, director of research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and head of the School of Historical Studies at the University of Birmingham.