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{{Short description|Australian musicologist and linguist}}
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[[File:Malcolm Gillies - Mathias Corvinus Collegium, 2014.05.16 (2).JPG|thumb|Malcolm Gillies in 2014]]
'''Malcolm George William Gillies''' {{Post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|FAHA}} (born 23 December 1954) is an Australian [[Musicology|musicologist]] and linguist, who served as [[vice-chancellor (education)|vice-chancellor]] of [[City University London|City University]], London, from 2007 to 2009, and of [[London Metropolitan University]] from 2009 to 2014.

==Education==
An Australian by birth, Gillies graduated with a degree in [[classics]] from the [[Australian National University]], and subsequently earned a further degree in music from the [[University of Cambridge]]. He has been awarded a master's degree from [[King's College London]], and doctoral degrees in music from the [[University of London]] and the [[University of Melbourne]]. In 1983–85 he was a Hungarian Government Scholar at the [[Hungarian Academy of Sciences]] in [[Budapest]].

==Scholarship==
Gillies is a recognised authority on the composers [[Percy Grainger]] and [[Béla Bartók]]. He has written or edited a dozen books and over 100 articles, chapters and reviews,<ref name="background"/> and this scholarship saw him elected a Fellow of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]] in 1992.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Fellow Profile: Malcolm Gillies |url=https://humanities.org.au/fellows/fellow-profile/?fellow_id=152 |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=Australian Academy of the Humanities |language=en-AU}}</ref> His co-edited book (with David Pear and Mark Carroll), ''Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger'' (2006), was awarded a Deems Taylor Award by the [[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers]] in 2007.

Since 1997 he has edited the series "Studies in Musical Genesis, Structure and Interpretation" for [[Oxford University Press]].

From 2000 to 2010 he was chair of the board of the international contemporary-music ensemble, [[ELISION Ensemble|Elision]]. In 2011 he curated the "Bartók: Infernal Dance" concert series for the [[Philharmonia Orchestra]].<ref>[http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/bartok/about/malcolm_gillies Malcolm Gillies: Series Consultant, Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Béla Bartók]</ref>

==Academic administration==
Gillies was deputy vice-chancellor (education) and then vice-president (development) of the [[Australian National University]], based in [[Canberra]], Australia, and later at [[Yale University]] in the United States. From 1998 to 2001 he was the president of the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]]; and in 2004–6 the inaugural president of the Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.

In 2007 he moved to the United Kingdom to become [[vice-chancellor (education)|vice-chancellor]] and president of [[City University London|City University]], London.<ref name=background>{{cite web |url=http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/the-vice-chancellors-office/malcolm-gilles-vice-chancellor.cf |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121223080335/http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/the-vice-chancellors-office/malcolm-gilles-vice-chancellor.cf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-23 |title=Vice-Chancellor, Professor Malcolm Gillies PhD, DMus, FAHA |access-date=2012-11-02 }}</ref> He was described as "well-liked and respected, popular with staff and highly regarded in universities for his thoughtful and imaginative approach", but resigned in the summer of 2009, apparently following disagreements with the governing body.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hodges |first=Lucy |title=Trouble at the top: Malcolm Gillies' departure from City University has revealed an intense relationship between governors and vice-chancellors |newspaper=The Independent |location=London |date=13 August 2009 |url =https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/trouble-at-the-top-malcolm-gillies-departure-from-city-university-has-revealed-an-intense-relationship-between-governors-and-vicechancellors-1771004.html }}</ref>

While at City University, he was also an alternate director of the [[Office of the Independent Adjudicator]]; vice-chair of London Higher (an umbrella body representing over 40 publicly funded universities and higher education colleges in London); a Trustee of the [[City of London Academy Islington]]; and on the Research Policy Committee of [[Universities UK]]. In 2008–11 he was the Schools–Higher Education "Champion" for London.

In November 2009 he was appointed vice-chancellor and chief executive of [[London Metropolitan University]]. In office, he oversaw a programme of course closures and staff redundancies. In April 2012 a survey of staff instituted by the [[University and College Union]] (with a turnout of 338) returned a 91 per cent vote of no confidence in his management.<ref>{{cite news |last=Matthews |first=David |title=London Met UCU returns "no confidence" vote on v-c |newspaper=Times Higher Education |location=London |date=24 April 2012 |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=419741 }}</ref>

Gillies has been chair of London Higher, chair of AccessHE, and a member of the [[International Network of Universities|International Network of Universities UK]]. He serves on the Nyenrode Foundation Board, responsible for the [[Nyenrode Business University]] and the Nyenrode Estate in the Netherlands; and is an adjunct professor in creative industries of [[Queensland University of Technology]], Australia.

==Honours==
Gillies was made a Member of the [[Order of Australia]] (AM) in the [[2013 Australia Day Honours]] "for significant service to tertiary education through leadership roles, and to the humanities, particularly as a scholar of musicology."<ref>[http://www.gg.gov.au/australia-day-2013-honours-lists Australia Day 2013 Honours Lists] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221074822/http://gg.gov.au/australia-day-2013-honours-lists |date=21 December 2016 }}, [[Governor-General of Australia]]: The Australian Honours Secretariat</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121017204527/http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/the-vice-chancellors-office/malcolm-gilles-vice-chancellor.cfm London Metropolitan University website: Vice-Chancellor, Professor Malcolm Gillies PhD, DMus, FAHA]
*[http://www.philharmonia.co.uk/bartok/about/malcolm_gillies Malcolm Gillies: Series Consultant, Infernal Dance: Inside the World of Béla Bartók]

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