Skip to main content

Bath Global Chairs

The Global Chair scheme invites distinguished international visiting professors and builds high-profile partnerships in research and practice.

2024 - 2026 Global Chairs

Contributing to research into lipid metabolism in tropical zebrafish for health treatments, complex systems, cognitive science, and neuroscience.


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.


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.


2020 - 2021 Global Chairs

Contributing to Bath's research on human locomotion in sports, health and clinical settings, the circular economy and green chemistry, ‘marginalised’ educational populations and educational disadvantage 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.


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.


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 Public Lectures

Links to current and past Global Chair lectures


Global Chair Public Lecture: Professor Carolyn Emery

18 Apr 2023 6.00pm The Boundary at Bath Cricket Club, Bath

Professor Carolyn Emery, a 2022/23 Global Chair, will give a public lecture on 'Time to SHRed Injuries: Research Informing Injury Prevention in Youth Sport'.

Contact Details

If you have any questions about previous Global Chairs or future calls, please get in touch.