Peter McColl
| Peter McColl | |||
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| McColl at his rectorial installation
McColl at his rectorial installation
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| Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh | |||
| In office 11 January 2012 – 11 February 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Iain Macwhirter | ||
| Succeeded by | Steve Morrison | ||
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| Born | 9 May 1980 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
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| Political party | Scottish Green Party | ||
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh | ||
| Occupation | Charity worker | ||
| Website | petermccoll |
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Peter McColl (born 9 May 1980) is a political campaigner and writer, former Rector of the University of Edinburgh, a charity worker, and editor of progressive blog Bright Green.[1][2][3]
Rectorship
McColl was confirmed as Rector of the University of Edinburgh on 11 January 2012, following an uncontested election. He took up the three-year post on 1 March 2012.
McColl is a geography graduate of the University of Edinburgh and was previously a Vice President of the Edinburgh University Students Association.[3] He was assessor to Mark Ballard during his term as Rector of the University from 2006–09, and was involved in the campaigns to elect both Robin Harper and Tam Dalyell as Rector.
As Rector McColl has supported successful campaigns to freeze international student fees; for more affordable student housing, including the establishment of the Edinburgh Student Housing Co-operative; for the University to divest from weaponised drone manufacturing and the wider arms trade; and to stop the University using zero hour contracts.[2][4][5][6][7][8][9]
He has also campaigned for better pay and conditions for academic and support staff, to improve teaching, for free education, for improved education funding, to improve university governance across Scotland, for fossil fuel divestment, and ethical procurement.[1][2][10][11][12][13]
In 2015 McColl became the fourth Rector to stand for re-election. He lost to his opponent, media executive Steve Morrison, who won with 61.9% of the vote.[14]
Politics
McColl is the Scottish Green Party 2015 Westminster parliamentary candidate for Edinburgh East, the party's national target seat.[15] He is an editor of the Bright Green blog, and was voted the UK's top Green blogger in the 2011 Total Politics poll.[16] and 7th top left wing blogger.[17]
Mccoll has also served as the Co-Chair of the Edinburgh Green Party and (until 2011) as Chair of climate action group Transition Scotland Support.[18]
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| Preceded by | Rector of the University of Edinburgh 2012 – 2015 |
Succeeded by Steve Morrison |
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