Tim Blackman is a British academic. He has been the vice-chancellor of the Open University since October 2019.[1] It was announced in 2024 that owing to ill-health he would step-down from his position.[2] He previously was the vice-chancellor of Middlesex University from 2015 to 2019.[3]
At The Open University he was partly responsible for moving 4000+ teaching staff onto permanent contracts [4] and soon after he initiated the institute's first use of 'fire and rehire' of Associate Lecturers [5]
Education and career
After graduating with a degree in geography from Durham University, Blackman started his career as a community worker in Belfast, before completing a PhD in urban sociology.[6]
Blackman, a fellow of Academy of Social Sciences and Royal Society of Arts, was the assessor of Social Policy and Social Work in the England Research Excellence Framework. He was a founding member of the Community Technical Aid and the Oxford Dementia Centre.[8]
