{"id":211,"date":"2013-07-23T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=211"},"modified":"2015-09-14T10:38:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T10:38:25","slug":"prof-tim-blackman-principal-investigator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"Prof Tim Blackman &#8211; Principal Investigator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_215\" style=\"width: 117px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-215 \" title=\"Prof Tim Blackman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prof-tim-blackman-107x150.jpg\" alt=\"Prof Tim Blackman\" width=\"107\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prof-tim-blackman-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prof-tim-blackman-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prof-tim-blackman-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/prof-tim-blackman.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 107px) 100vw, 107px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prof Tim Blackman<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>Role<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tim Blackman was the Principal  Investigator on the OU&#8217;s Catalyst project (now Vice Chancellor at Middlesex University). As PI Tim acted as a high-level  strategic champion for the project, ensuring senior management  commitment to delivery of the programme.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Profile<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Tim Blackman joined the OU from Durham University  where he was Dean of the University&#8217;s campus in Stockton-on-Tees and  Director of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing. A  Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, he graduated in Geography and  studied at Durham for a PhD in Urban Sociology. He was elected to the  Academy of Social Sciences in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Tim was previously Head of  the School of Applied Social Sciences at Durham (2005-07), Dean of the  School of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Teesside  (2000-2004), Deputy Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Law at  Oxford Brookes University (1995-2000), and Head of Research at Newcastle  City Council (1990-95).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Role Tim Blackman was the Principal Investigator on the OU&#8217;s Catalyst project (now Vice Chancellor at Middlesex University). As PI Tim acted as a high-level strategic champion for the project, ensuring senior management commitment to delivery of the programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6156,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/6156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/per\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}