Professor Anne Murphy

Anne joined us in March 2021 as Executive Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences. She was appointed to the role of DVC Education in November 2023.  She is responsible for the strategic leadership of all educational matters and oversight across a wide range of University matters ensuring the provision of an excellent education and experience for students.

Anne previously worked at the University of Hertfordshire where she was the Dean of the School of Humanities. Her first career was in the City trading interest rate and foreign exchange derivatives. 

Her research focuses on early modern financial markets and investment behaviour, and the organisation and management of the 18th-century Bank of England. Anne has published extensively on financial, social and economic history. She won the Economic History Society’s first monograph prize in 2010 for her monograph ‘The Origins of English Financial Markets: investment and speculation before the South Sea Bubble'. Her most recent book is 'Virtuous Bankers: a day in the life of the eighteenth-century Bank of England.'