Professor Colette Fagan, FAcSS, is Vice-President for Research at The University of Manchester
Professor Colette Fagan is the University of Manchester’s Vice-President for Research, responsible for leading the University’s research and international strategies.
Previously Colette was the Deputy Dean and Vice-Dean for Research for the Faculty of Humanities and served concurrently as a Senate-elected representative on the University’s Board of Governors. She is an appointed member of UKRI’s Research England Council, chairs the Research England Advisory Group (REAG) for the School of Advanced Study (SAS) University of London, chaired the Russell Group’s PVC-Research Group (2018-2023), and serves on the UUK PVC Research and Innovation Group.
Her commitment to enabling interdisciplinary research includes co-authorship of British Academy’s report Crossing Paths: Interdisciplinary institutions, careers, education and applications.
Colette is an elected Fellow of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences in recognition of her research and policy impact focussed on working conditions and job quality, gender relations and inequalities, working-time and time-use, and international comparative analysis.
She has held visiting academic appointments at universities and research institutes in Australia, Germany and the USA. Her research has been supported by major national and international funders, including the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the European Union’s research framework programmes.
Her research and policy advice includes advisory roles and consultancy with the European Commission and its Eurofound agency, the European Parliament, the United Nations’ International Labour Office and the OECD; and various national government agencies, trade unions and employers’ associations in the EU, Australia, Japan and South Korea.