Biography
Vice-Chancellor
As Vice-Chancellor, Professor McCaffery’s role is to provide guidance and leadership on all aspects of academic activity within the university.
Peter has more than 35 years' leadership, management, teaching, and research experience across a range of institutions from Further Education colleges to USA Ivy League, including as Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive at the University of Cumbria, and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at London Metropolitan University.
He was awarded a PhD by the London School of Economics and was an Idlewild Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania where he pioneered new modes of inquiry into political corruption in the American city.
A Winston Churchill Fellow and a Universities UK nominee to the Cabinet Office Top Management Programme, Peter has acted as a consultant for a variety of bodies including the British Council, the governments of Botswana and Jamaica, and the Centre for HE in Germany.
He was awarded a National Leadership Fellowship by the Leadership Foundation for HE and he pioneered a Wider Management Mentoring Programme at London South Bank University for the university's BME managers in partnership with the public and private sector. He also led the equality and diversity team whose work was showcased by the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) in its Sustaining Excellence in HE Review.
Peter is the UK editor, author, and collaborator for the Epigeum (Oxford University Press) project that pioneered the first world class, online programme with global reach on university leadership and management development. In 2021, he was appointed a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.
An American historian by background, Peter was a regular analyst for Sky News over the years of the first Trump Presidency.
