Appointed 2025

Professor Kelly Coate is Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic at Richmond American University London. She was previously in the role of Pro Vice Chancellor for Students and Education at the University of Sussex, from 2018-2023.  Prior to that she was Vice Dean Education in the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy at King’s College London.

Kelly has also worked at the University of Galway in Ireland and the Institute of Education at UCL.  She has been an active researcher of higher education, publishing books, chapters and articles on such topics as the curriculum in higher education, gender and academic careers, and internationalisation.  She was on the Governing Council of the Society for Research into Higher Education for 6 years, and serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals Teaching in Higher Education, Higher Education Research and Development, and the Journal of Education Policy.