It was announced today, Friday 3 February, that Pro-Vice Chancellor Professor Margot Finn is to leave Warwick in July to take up a Chair in Modern British History at UCL.

Margot, who is Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Access, Widening Participation and Development, has served since April 2011 as Pro Vice-Chancellor. She came to the University from Emory University in 2000 as a Warwick Research Fellow in the History Department, where she was Head of Department from 2006-2009. She was the founding Director of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study (2007-2009).

Her research interests have ranged from the impact of continental European political traditions on British radicalism, through to the history of consumer debt and credit in Britain, to her current research on the British Empire in India. She is the Principal Investigator on a three-year Leverhulme Trust research grant entitled The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857, a collaborative project with staff from museums, libraries and stately homes as well as local and family historians.