Rate My Professor Colin Grant

Professor Colin B. Grant is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Global at the University of New South Wales. He holds a BA and a PhD and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Previously, he served as Vice Principal International at Queen Mary University of London. His earlier academic career included positions as Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Communication Studies, with teaching, PhD supervision and research in international organisations, European studies, literature and related fields. He was an exchange student in Leipzig and conducted doctoral fieldwork at the Humboldt University and Zentralinstitut für Literaturgeschichte in Berlin. He was a DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Siegen specialising in communication theory and society. Professor Grant is the author of several monographs covering literature, political science, psychology, epistemology and the theory of communication.

He has held significant leadership roles including Chair of the British Council Education Advisory Group, Trustee of the Council for At Risk Academics (CARA) from 2018 to 2022, member of the DAAD Strategic Partnerships Committee, Inaugural Chair of the Russell Group International Forum until early 2019, and Universities UK lead for Latin America from 2014 to 2017. He has extensive leadership experience across institutions and partnerships in Brazil, China, India, Republic of Korea, Pakistan, Malaysia, Singapore and South Africa, and served on the UUK International Strategic Advisory Board until August 2019. Professor Grant specialises in the study of communications in unstable environments as a Professor of Human Communications.