Malcolm Press

Malcolm Press
Born Malcolm Colin Press
(1958-09-18) 18 September 1958[1]
Nationality British
Fields Ecology
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Responses to acidic deposition in blanket bogs (1983)
Notable awards
Website
www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/university/malcolm-press.aspx

Malcolm Colin Press (born 18 September 1958)[1] is an Ecologist, Professor and Vice-chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), UK.[1][4]

Education

Press was educated at the Westfield College,[1] part of the University of London gaining a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental sciences in 1980 followed by a PhD from the University of Manchester in 1983.[3]

Career

Following his PhD, Press was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at University College London (UCL) from 1985 to 1989. He was appointed a Lecturer in 1989 at the University of Manchester, before being promoted to senior lecturer and moving to the University of Sheffield in 1994, where he was a Reader until 1998, then Professor of Physiological Ecology from 1998 to 2008. He was appointed Pro-vice-chancellor and Head of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham until 2015.[5][6] He started his position as VC at MMU in June 2015.[7][8][9][10]

Controversy

During his time as head of the College of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, Press was at the centre of controversy apropos the College's perceived aggressive management style, writing that the College had "managed out under-performing staff" in a strategy document. This was seen by some, that undue pressure had been put on selected staff to resign at that time.[9] These remarks were later withdrawn.

Research

Press conducts research on interactions between parasitic plants and their hosts, environmental change in Arctic ecosystems and tropical rainforest ecology.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17] Specifically:

“ Malcolm is an ecologist with wide ranging interests in the ways in which plants compete for carbon and nutrients. He has worked on parasitic plants that infect staple cereal crops in sub-Saharan Africa, the impacts of climate change on the structure and function of Arctic ecosystems, and the ecology of tropical rain forests in South East Asia. His research, which has been funded by BBSRC, NERC, ESRC, DfID and charities, has resulted in over 160 publications and the award of the British Ecological Society's President's Medal in 2005.[6] ”

Awards and honours

Press was president of the British Ecological Society (BES) 2007–2009, and was awarded the BES presidents medal in 2005. In 2012, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by Lord Taylor.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 PRESS, Prof. Malcolm Colin. Who's Who 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 "Professor Malcolm Press has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew by Lord Taylor". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.
  3. 1 2 Press, Malcolm Colin (1983). Responses to Acidic Deposition in Blanket Bogs (PhD thesis). University of Manchester. Archived from the original on 2015-03-03.
  4. ↑ "Brazil and beyond: inside Birmingham and Nottingham universities' research partnership". The Guardian. 2012-03-15. Archived from the original on 2014-02-23.
  5. ↑ "Professor Malcolm Press, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Transfer, Life and Environmental Sciences". University of Birmingham. Archived from the original on 2013-05-03.
  6. 1 2 "Professor Malcolm Press BSc, PhD, Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research and Knowledge Transfer)". University of Birmingham. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.
  7. ↑ "Professor Malcolm Press begins as Vice-Chancellor: New era for Manchester Metropolitan University". Manchester Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 2015-06-05.
  8. ↑ "Professor Malcolm Press, Vice-Chancellor". Manchester Metropolitan University. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14.
  9. 1 2 "Birmingham pro v-c’s remark infuriates staff". Times Higher Education. 2013. Archived from the original on 2014-02-22.
  10. ↑ "UK Government Research Grants awarded to Malcolm Press". Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14.
  11. ↑ Quested, H. M.; Cornelissen, J. H. C.; Press, M. C.; Callaghan, T. V.; Aerts, R.; Trosien, F.; Riemann, P.; Gwynn-Jones, D.; Kondratchuk, A.; Jonasson, S. E. (2003). "Decomposition of Sub-Arctic Plants with Differing Nitrogen Economies: A Functional Role for Hemiparasites". Ecology 84 (12): 3209. doi:10.1890/02-0426.
  12. ↑ Bungard, R. A.; Ruban, A. V.; Hibberd, J. M.; Press, M. C.; Horton, P.; Scholes, J. D. (1999). "Unusual carotenoid composition and a new type of xanthophyll cycle in plants". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (3): 1135. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.3.1135. PMC 15363. PMID 9927706.
  13. ↑ Stewart, G. R.; Press, M. C. (1990). "The Physiology and Biochemistry of Parasitic Angiosperms". Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 41: 127. doi:10.1146/annurev.pp.41.060190.001015.
  14. ↑ Malcolm Press's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  15. ↑ Bale, J. S.; Masters, G. J.; Hodkinson, I. D.; Awmack, C.; Bezemer, T. M.; Brown, V. K.; Butterfield, J.; Buse, A.; Coulson, J. C.; Farrar, J.; Good, J. E. G.; Harrington, R.; Hartley, S.; Jones, T. H.; Lindroth, R. L.; Press, M. C.; Symrnioudis, I.; Watt, A. D.; Whittaker, J. B. (2002). "Herbivory in global climate change research: Direct effects of rising temperature on insect herbivores". Global Change Biology 8: 1. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2486.2002.00451.x.
  16. ↑ Rustad, L.E.; Campbell, J.L.; Marion, G. M.; Norby, R. J.; Mitchell, M. J.; Hartley, A. E.; Cornelissen, J. H. C.; Gurevitch, J.; GCTE-NEWS (2001). "A meta-analysis of the response of soil respiration, net nitrogen mineralization, and aboveground plant growth to experimental ecosystem warming". Oecologia 126 (4): 543. doi:10.1007/s004420000544.
  17. ↑ Press, M. C.; Potter, J. A.; Burke, M. J. W.; Callaghan, T. V.; Lee, J. A. (1998). "Responses of a subarctic dwarf shrub heath community to simulated environmental change". Journal of Ecology 86 (2): 315. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2745.1998.00261.x.
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