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Adrian Webb
Sir Adrian Leonard Webb (born 19 July 1943) is a British academic and public administrator. Education and early life Born in Newport, Wales, Webb attended St Julian's High School and the University of Birmingham; he graduated from the latter with a Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSocSci) degree in 1965, and then completed a Master of Science (MSc) in economics at the London School of Economics in 1966. Academic career He subsequently lectured there until 1974, when he spent two years as Research Director at the Personal Social Services Council. In 1976, he joined Loughborough University as Professor of Social Policy and remained there until 1976; between 1983 and 1993, he was Director of Loughborough's Centre for Research in Social Policy; he was also Dean, then Pro Vice-Chancellor and then Senior Pro Vice-Chancellor at Loughborough. In 1993, Webb was appointed Vice-Chancellor at the University of Glamorgan, serving until 2004. He has also sat on a wide range of public bodies as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newport, Wales
Newport ( cy, Casnewydd; ) is a city and Local government in Wales#Principal areas, county borough in Wales, situated on the River Usk close to its confluence with the Severn Estuary, northeast of Cardiff. With a population of 145,700 at the 2011 census, Newport is the third-largest authority with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Wales, and seventh List of Welsh principal areas, most populous overall. Newport became a unitary authority in 1996 and forms part of the Cardiff-Newport metropolitan area. Newport was the site of the last large-scale armed insurrection in Great Britain, the Newport Rising of 1839. Newport has been a port since medieval times when the first Newport Castle was built by the Normans. The town outgrew the earlier Roman Britain, Roman town of Caerleon, immediately upstream and now part of the borough. Newport gained its first Municipal charter, charter in 1314. It grew significantly in the 19th century when its port became the focus of Coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
