Professor Rob Allen Professor Rob Allen is the Deputy Vice Chancellor at AUT University. He moved to the University in 2003, initially as Dean of the Faculty of Arts (later the Faculty of Applied Humanities) and in 2004 he took up the additional responsibility of Pro Vice Chancellor, Learning and Teaching. Having taken a degree in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, he carried out research, mainly in the area of urban development, in both Zambia and Nigeria. Returning to the UK in early 1980s, he worked at the University of Sussex before moving to the University of Greenwich where he spent a number of years in the School of Social Sciences before taking on a variety of managerial positions at Dean and Director level. He has been involved in academic development and quality management for twenty years, including over ten years as an auditor for the UK Quality Assurance Agency, during which time he was involved in over twenty audits in the UK, Greece, Bulgaria and Israel. He is currently an auditor for the NZUAAU and a member of CUAP. His research is in the field of social history, and specifically UK radicals of the 1870s. He has a particular interest in the 19th century designer and socialist William Morris. He is currently writing a book: Atrocious Behaviour - Agitation and Indignation in the 1870s |