University engagement role

HISTORIAN Prof Tony Ballantyne will be the University of Otago’s new deputy vicechancellor of external engagement from next year.

Prof Ballantyne, at present provicechancellor of the division of humanities, will replace Prof Helen Nicholson who took up the job when the position was first created in 2015.

The external engagement division of the university comprises marketing, communications, international, development and alumni relations, and schools’ liaison.

Prof Nicholson would take up a new role as deputy vicechancellor of academics next year.