{"id":736,"date":"2026-11-03T09:42:43","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=736"},"modified":"2026-11-03T09:43:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:43:21","slug":"academic-lead-for-student-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/11\/03\/academic-lead-for-student-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Academic Lead for Student Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.imperial.ac.uk\/jason.riley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Jason Riley<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> has been appointed as the Academic Lead for Student Experience, starting from 1 January 2027 for a five-year term. Professor Riley will undertake this part-time appointment alongside his role as Vice-Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Engineering, and his academic role as Professor of Materials Electrochemistry in the Department of Materials.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Reporting to the Vice-Provost (Education and Student Experience), in this new role Professor Riley will further enhance the strategic commitment to the wider and non-curricular student experience, supporting Imperial&#8217;s vision for an engaging extracurricular experience within the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/strategy\/enabling-talent\/class-of-2030\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Class of 2030<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"none\"> strategy initiative.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Jason Riley has been appointed as the Academic Lead for Student Experience, starting from 1 January 2027 for a five-year term. Professor Riley will undertake this part-time appointment alongside his role as Vice-Dean (Education) for the Faculty of Engineering, and his academic role as Professor of Materials Electrochemistry in the Department of Materials.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1722,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319054],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-senior-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1722"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}