As Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Tom works closely with the Vice-Chancellor and the University Executive playing a major role in shaping and directing the delivery of the University’s Vision, Strategy and supporting plans.
He is the deputy for the Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive.
Tom provides strategic academic leadership for the University, responsible for the development of the academic staff base and the academic portfolio and for leadership of the faculties through the line management of the Pro Vice-Chancellors who lead each faculty.
Working closely with the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Strategy Officer, Tom leads the design and delivery of the University’s annual planning and resourcing process.
He works in partnership with the Chief People Officer to lead a constructive working relationship with the University’s recognised academic trade union. Tom, the Chief People Officer and the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion team work closely on the University’s commitment to improve the understanding of, and addressing, racial inequality and steers the University’s membership of the Race Equality Charter.
Leading on the University’s portfolio of major change projects, Tom works closely with Chief Information, Strategy, Financial and Marketing Officers.
Tom leads the continuous improvement in quality and performance of academic staff, to ensure academic excellence and the delivery of a research-intensive, business focused modern university. He leads the development, resourcing and delivery of the academic portfolio across the University to deliver against the research, education and knowledge exchange plans.
In partnership with Faculties and the academic trade union, Tom leads the development and implementation of the academic workload.
Tom is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and was previously a Mid-Career Fellow of the British Academy.
He is a historian of the Holocaust and more recently of colonial genocides. He is the author and editor of several books on these subjects including The Church of England and the Holocaust (2006); with James Jordan, The Memory of the Holocaust in Australia (2008); with Stephen Parker, God and War (2010); Debates on the Holocaust (2010) and The Last Man: A British Genocide in Tasmania (2014). Tom was co-editor of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History for 20 years until 2023.
Tom has recently published (with Andy Pearce from University College London) an edited collection on Britain and the Holocaust. He is currently working on a book project provisionally titled Empire of Genocide: The Extermination of Peoples in the British World.
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