Pro-Rector for Research

Dr Dennis Farrington.

Dr Farrington is a citizen of the UK, born in 1947. He graduated with a BSc degree in Chemistry from the University of Kent (1969) and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the New University of Ulster (1972) for research into the chemistry of phthalocyanine compounds. He subsequently took the degrees of LLB (1980) and LLM (1985) in Law from the Universities of London and Hull and the Advanced Diploma in Educational Management from the Open University (1986).

From 1972 to 1981 he was employed in government service, then for twenty years in University administration. He joined the SEE University Foundation Switzerland in 2000 and worked as Secretary-General of the SEE University from February 2002 to August 2004, subsequently serving part-time as Adviser to the Rector and as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law before taking up the position of Pro-Rector (Research) in January 2007. Since 1994 he has also been working as a consultant with the Council of Europe, starting in Albania and advising in 12 other countries, culminating in major projects in education reform in Kosovo (2000-2004) (in association with UNMIK and the World Bank) and in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, the Russian Federation as a whole and Chechnya. He has written material for the Council of Europe, UNESCO, OECD, the Association of Commonwealth Universities, the British Council, the Education Law Association (US), the European Association for Education Law and Policy and the Australia and New Zealand Education Law Association. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Higher Education Policy Studies, New College, University of Oxford, UK and the co-author of the UK’s leading textbook on Higher Education Law. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts of the UK. “