Stuart Croft
FRSA
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Warwick
Assumed office
February 2016
Preceded byNigel Thrift
Personal details
Born (1963-03-07) 7 March 1963
NationalityBritish
Alma materSouthampton University
Salary£354,000 (2021–22)[1]
Websitewarwick.ac.uk/services/vco/exec/vc/
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical Science
Sub-disciplineInternational Security, Counter Terrorism
InstitutionsWarwick University, Birmingham University

Stuart Croft FRSA (born 7 March 1963) is a British political scientist and the Vice-Chancellor of Warwick University, a position he has held since 2016.[2] He received a Ph.D. from Southampton University[3] and worked at Birmingham University before joining Warwick in 2007 as Professor of International Security. Croft has published widely in the field of international security and counter-terrorism and is a member of the Academy of Social Sciences and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.[4]

Group chat incident

On 1 February 2019, Croft published an open letter on the Warwick University website in response to an incident on campus via a group messenger application that resulted in the temporary suspension of 11 individuals.[5] The letter, which does not mention the victims, was criticised in a response on The Boar – a student-run news website that first publicised the incident.[6] Croft later published a follow-up indicating that two of the men whose ban was lifted would not return.[7]

Selected publications

  • Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006.
  • Securitizing Islam, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2012.

References

  1. ↑ "Statement of accounts for the year ended 31 July 2022" (PDF). University of Warwick. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
  2. ↑ "Prof. Stuart Croft". CWELP. 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  3. ↑ "Stuart Croft: Biography". Warwick University. 16 October 2017. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "Professor Stuart Croft". Equality Challenge Unit. 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Open letter from VC Stuart Croft on group chat incident". Warwick University. 1 February 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  6. ↑ "To Stuart Croft: The victims "should always have been the focus"". The Boar. 2 February 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "Warwick students suspended for rape chat 'won't return'". BBC News. 4 February 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2019.


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