Who's who
Professor Geoff Smith
Deputy Rector
Geoff studied Music at Nottingham University, received an MPhil in Electronic Music from Oxford University and completed a PhD in Composition at Huddersfield University before working as a freelance composer and performer.
After an early album on the independent label Kitchenware Records, he signed a two-album deal with Sony Classical and a publishing contract with EMI. He also composed music for television and film. Faber & Faber published his book on American contemporary composers and he wrote a wide range of articles for The Musical Times, The Wire, Contemporary Music Review, Tempo and others.
Geoff taught at the universities of Manchester and Huddersfield before becoming Head of Music at Bath Spa University. In 2002, he founded the School of Music and Performing Arts at Bath Spa which now comprises more than 900 students in Music, Drama and Dance and was recognised in 2005 as a national Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning.
He is an elected member of the NAMHE executive (the National Association for Music in Higher Education) and a member of PALATINE's Advisory Board (the HEA Subject Centre for the Performing Arts). He is a QAA institutional assessor for degree-awarding powers and an institutional auditor.
Geoff was awarded a professorial title in 2005 for ‘outstanding qualities of academic leadership' and completed an MBA in Higher Education Management in 2006.
As well as deputising for the Rector, Geoff is responsible for the academic profile of the institution - its educational philosophy, the research, teaching and learning that embodies it and the frameworks that support it. He also acts as guardian of the overall student experience across UCF's three campuses.
Geoff is a director of the joint venture companies that run and develop the shared campus at Tremough, a member of the Combined Universities of Cornwall (CUC) Executive, the Dartington Plus steering group, Universities South West executive committee and a trustee of Drake Music. He also chairs a number of committees at UCF including Research & Enterprise, Academic Standards & Enhancement, Annual Strategic Review, Course Development Group and Performance Review.
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