Dr Adrian Graves

Registrar and Secretary
 
Dr Adrian Graves joined the University of Salford as Registrar and Secretary in June 2006. A graduate of the Universities of Adelaide and Oxford, Dr Graves has held academic posts at the Universities of Edinburgh, Adelaide and New South Wales between 1979 and 1989.

He taught international economic history and achieved an international reputation for his research on the political economy of the international sugar economy. He joined the University of Adelaide in May 1989 as Head of Admissions, Access and Student Services, subsequently taking up the posts of Academic Registrar, Director of Strategic Planning and Policy and General Manager of New Business Development.

Between 1996 and 1998, he was Director of Development of Ngapartji Cooperative Multimedia Centre, an innovative and highly successful collaboration of the private sector, Government and the Universities of South Australia.

He returned to Scotland in June 2000 as University Secretary at the Robert Gordon University, leading a comprehensive program of change in the delivery of professional and administrative services and the governance of the University.

He holds positions on a number of national committees, Trusts and Boards, including the Scottish Traditional Skills Training Centre, of which he is a founding Director, the AUA, AHUA and the Heads of University Management in Europe.