Christina Slade
Christina M. Slade was born in Adelaide and grew up in South Australia.
Biography
Slade is an Emeritus Professor of Bath Spa University having held the position of Vice-Chancellor from January 2012 to August 2017. During her time in office she was responsible for the University’s strategic plan, financial management, academic quality and the external profile.One of her first projects, which she inherited, was the re-development of Newton Park campus at a cost of £40 million. She was also responsible for driving a successful international student recruitment agenda. She herself has linked studies in New York, Montreal, Brussels, Beirut, Oxford, Nairobi, Islamabad, Canberra and Adelaide.
Slade held a number of senior academic roles including Dean of the Schools of Arts and of Social Sciences, and Shadow Deputy Vice-Chancellor at City University London. She was Dean of Humanities at Macquarie University and Professor of Media Theory at the University of Utrecht in which capacity she led a €1.25 million seven nation EU funded project entitled ‘Media and Citizenship: transnational television cultures reshaping political identities in the EU.’ At the University of Canberra, Slade was Head of School for Creative Communication and developed a suite of modularised online Masters in New Media.
Educated at the Australian National University, she achieved a BA and a PhD in Philosophy. Trained as a philosopher of logic and language, her research has focused on issues of the media since 1990. Her monograph, ‘The Real Thing: doing philosophy with media’ examines the role of reason in the media, while ‘From Migrant to Citizen: testing language, testing culture’, jointly edited with Martina Möllering, looks at linguistic, legal and philosophical aspects of citizenship testing. Slade has received a total of $5 million in external grants. Following her Doctorate, further qualifications include; Top Management Programme 19, Diploma French, Diploma of Teaching English as a Second Language, Certified Teacher Trainer and Diploma of Education.
Slade is a member of several National and International Committees including; University of Gibraltar Academic Board, Association of Commonwealth Universities, Institute of Directors, Royal Society of Arts and the European Association of International Education. She was also Chair of the Philosophy of Communication Division for the International Communication Association. Involved in community organisations, Slade is an Honorary Life Patron for the Society of Philosophy for the Young ACT.
Slade's international Board Experience includes
QS Rankings, provides the most respected overall ranking of international universities, together with regional and subject based rankings.
- Board member since 2012, bringing knowledge of the Liberal Arts sector of higher education, the creative industries and qualitative research methodologies
Association of Commonwealth Universities, the peak membership body for Commonwealth higher education, which administers the Commonwealth and Chevening scholarship funds
- UK Trustee and Chair of the Audit Committee, 2015–17
All-Party Parliamentary University Group
- Member of governing council, setting agenda with members of House of Commons and Lords for major issues 2015-2017
Bath Spa Global
- Co-chair of Pathway college
Iraq Britain Business Council the peak chamber of commerce for Iraq
- Board member from 2014
- As Chair, Education, Heritage and Culture Sector Table, 2017-, brought together industry working in Iraq, senior Iraqi officials with UK vice-chancellors to plan collaborative educational offerings
The Royal High School Bath sole Girls’ Day School Trust schoolwith boarding facilities
- Trustee 2015-2017; involved in appointment of new Head, 2016, ensured the continuation of International Baccalaureate
Holburne Museum, Bath, world class Georgian museum
- Trustee 2012 –2017. Led development of research partnerships.
City of London Academy of Islington, a highly challenging school environment
- Board of Governors 2009-12. Led on curriculum review and assessment of new build
International Communication Association, leading academic association in field
- Governor and Chair, Philosophy of Communication Division, 2004-7
Slade is married to a former Australian ambassador and has two children.
Awards and nominations
- Fondación Carolina award from Spanish Government
- Rector’s Award, Universidad Ibero Americana
- Harkness Fellowship, New York University
- Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, Somerville College, Oxford
- National Undergraduate Scholarship, Australian National University
Australian directorships during 2000 - 2008
- Member, Council for Humanities Arts and Social Sciences
- Member of Board, Australian Services Round table: services industry lobby group
- Chair of Board, Macquarie Ancient History Museum
- Chair of Board, Australian Centre for Numismatics
- Chair of Board, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
- Member of Board, Centre for Middle East Studies
- Deputy Chair of Board, Innovative Research University European Union Centre
- Director, Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies
Monographs, joint and edited books
- eds. Slade, C & Möllering, M. From Migrant to Citizen: testing language, testing culture, Palgrave Macmillan, London.
- Slade, C A Tale of Two Women Adelaide, South Australia: Wakefield.
- Slade, C. The Real Thing: Doing Philosophy with the Media. Boston: Peter Lang.
- Lewis, G. and Slade, C. Critical Communication. Sydney: Prentice Hall.
- Slade, C. ed. Media Images of Australia/Asia: Cross Cultural Reflections. Proceedings of Conference held at the University of Canberra, November 1992. Canberra: CCIR.
- Slade, C. ‘Falsification and the Theory of Meaning’, Logic Series, vol. 26:
- Slade, C. ed. A Traveller’s Guide to Pakistan. Islamabad: Asian Study Group.
- Slade, C. ‘Anti-realism: the manifestation of semantic knowledge’. Ph.D. thesis, ANU.