The Bath Global Chair Scheme 2026/2027 Call
The Global Chair scheme enables Bath researchers to host world-leading visiting professors, boosting the University鈥檚 research strength and global profile.
Bath Global Chairs
The Global Chair scheme hosts distinguished international visiting professors and builds high-impact partnerships in research and practice.
2026/2027 Global Chair Scheme call
Nominations are now open for the 2026/2027 Global Chair Scheme. This year, to celebrate the University's 60th anniversary, we are looking to appoint up to six Global Chairs in this call.
2025 - 2027 Global Chairs
Contributing to Bath鈥檚 research in development economics, game theory, environmental governance, welfare economics, and public policy.
Global Chair Professor Kaushik Basu (Cornell University)
Professor Kaushik Basu, renowned for work in development economics, game theory, and welfare economics, is hosted by the Department of Economics and CDS.
Global Chair Professor Benjamin Cashore (National University of Singapore)
World-renowned expert on environmental governance and public policy, Professor Cashore is hosted by the Department of Social and Policy Sciences and the ISCC.
2024 - 2026 Global Chairs
Contributing to research into lipid metabolism in tropical zebrafish for health treatments, complex systems, cognitive science, and neuroscience.
Global Chair Professor Steven A Farber (Johns Hopkins University)
An eminent researcher in lipid metabolism in the zebrafish, Professor Farber is hosted by Department of Life Sciences and the Milner Centre for Evolution.
Global Chair Professor Scott Kelso (Florida Atlantic University)
A leading researcher in complex systems, cognitive science, and neuroscience, Prof. Kelso is hosted by the Bath Institute for the Augmented Human and the IPR.
2023 - 2024 Global Chairs
Contributing to Bath's research on global health diseases, biomimetic nanostructures, global and Northeast Asian regional security affairs and the interaction between international security, technology and policy.
Global Chair Professor Francesca Aweeka (University of California, San Francisco)
A leading expert and researcher in infectious diseases, Professor Francesca Aweeka is hosted by the Department of Life Sciences.
Global Chair Professor Jong Kun Choi (Yonsei University)
Hosted by the Department of PoLIS, Professor Choi is a world-renowned academic expert of global and Northeast Asian regional security affairs.
Global Chair Professor Nicolas Kotov (University of Michigan)
A pioneering academic in the cross-disciplinary studies of inorganic nanomaterials, Professor Nicolas Kotov is hosted by the Department of Physics.
Global Chair Professor Dennis Broeders (Leiden University)
Hosted by the Dept. of Politics, Languages & International Studies and School of Management, Prof Broeders is a leading expert in cyber governance and security.
2022 - 2023 Global Chairs
Contributing to Bath's research on injury rehabilitation and sports performance, environmental engineering and membrane technology, Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and biomedical and electronic engineering.
Global Chair Prof. Tianhong Cui (University of Minnesota)
A Distinguished McKnight Professor, Professor Tianhong Cui is hosted by the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering.
Global Chair Prof. Carolyn Emery (University of Calgary)
Hosted by the Centre for Health and Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport, Professor Emery is an internationally recognised epidemiologist and physiotherapist.
Global Chair Prof. Konstantina Nikita (National Technical University of Athens)
A pioneer in cross-disciplinary research in Engineering and Medicine, Professor Nikita is hosted by the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.
Global Chair Prof. Chuyang Tang (University of Hong Kong)
Professor Tang is a world-leading expert, highly respected for his work focused on environmental engineering, membrane technology, desalination and water reuse.
2020 - 2021 Global Chairs
Contributing to Bath's research on human locomotion in sports, health and clinical settings, the circular economy and green chemistry, 鈥榤arginalised鈥� educational populations and educational disadvantage and widening participation.
Global Chair Prof. Alberto Minetti (University of Milan)
Hosted by the Department of Health, Prof. Minetti is a leading expert in physiology and human locomotion.
Global Chair Prof. John Warner (Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry)
Hosted by the Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies, Professor Warner is a leading expert in green chemistry and sustainable technologies.
Global Chair Prof. Heike Solga (WZB 鈥� Berlin Social Science Center)
Co-hosted by the Departments of Education and Social & Policy Sciences, Professor Solga is an expert on educational disadvantage and labour market outcomes.
Global Chair Prof. Penny Jane Burke (University of Newcastle, Australia)
Co-hosted by the Department of Education and Centre for Learning & Teaching, Professor Burke is an expert in Higher Education policy and Widening Participation.
2019 - 2020 Global Chairs
Contributing to Bath's research on post traumatic stress and anxiety disorders and gender, peace and security and the political economy of sexual and gender-based violence.
Global Chair Prof. Soraya Seedat (Stellenbosch University)
Hosted by the Department of Psychology, Professor Seedat is a psychiatrist specialising in mental health and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Global Chair Prof. Jacqui True (Monash University)
An expert on gender-based violence, Professor True is Director of the Monash Centre for Gender, Peace and Security.
2018 - 2019 Global Chairs
Contributing to interdisciplinary perspectives in policy research on sustainability and energy infrastructure and research approaches to international development and resource conflicts, specifically between Latin America and Africa.
Global Chair Timothy Mitchell (Columbia University)
Hosted by the Institute for Policy 69色情片, Professor Mitchell is a leading political theorist, historian and scholar of the Middle East.
Global Chair Prof. Anthony Bebbington (Ford Foundation)
Hosted by the Department of Social & Policy Sciences, Professor Bebbington is new Director of Natural Resources and Climate Change at the Ford Foundation.
Global Chair Prof. Rams茅s Mena Ch谩vez (UNAM)
Jointly hosted by SAMBa and the IMI, Prof. Rams茅s Mena is a leading scholar in statistical applied mathematics.
2017 - 2018 Global Chairs
Contributing to research on inorganic chemistry and terror, authoritarian violence and cosmopolitan protection, developing a post colonist theory of security.
Global Chair Prof. Philip Power (UC Davis)
Hosted by the Department of Chemistry, Professor Power is a leading authority in inorganic chemistry.
Global Chair Prof. Chung-in Moon (Yonsei University)
Hosted by the Deparment of PoLIS, Prof. Moon is a leading scholar of the Korean peace process and Special Adviser to the President of South Korea.
Global Chair Public Lectures
Links to current and past Global Chair lectures
14 Jun 2022 5.00pm
Level 2 Lecture Theatre,
The Chancellors' Building
,
University of Bath
Global Chair Professor Warner will deliver a public lecture on Inventing a sustainable future in partnership with nature followed by a welcome reception.
7 Sep 2022 6.30pm
16-18 Queen Square,
Bath
A talk by Global Chair Prof. Alberto Minetti, an internationally renowned scholar in human locomotion and Distinguished Professor at the University of Milan.
Contact Details
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