Lovelace made professor at Leeds University

Robin Lovelace has been appointed to a Professorship at the University of Leeds. He has been at the university for 10 years, most recently as Associate Professor of Transport Data Science. Alongside his role in academia, Lovelace is working part-time on a two-year contract as Director of Data & Analysis, Head of Data and Digital and Lead Data Scientist at Active Travel England (ATE)

Lovelace said: “I have found having 2 jobs to be a challenge at times, while also being highly rewarding. It’s clearly a good thing when academics get out of their comfort zones and step into the ‘real world’, whether that’s in government, industry, or the third sector. However, it seems that there are disincentives to doing so: most jobs have a ‘baseline level’ of work that needs to be done, and if you take on a second job, you have to do two lots of baseline work.”