UCLan vice chancellor to chair new Maritime Skills Commission

Professor Graham Baldwin, the University Central Lancashire’s vice-chancellor, has been appointed chair of the Maritime Skills Commission.

The new project has been launched to better understand the existing and future skills needs of the industry both on land and at sea. It will futureproof training for the 220,100 people working in the sector, including for the 27,000 employed at ports around the country. 

Graham is himself a third-generation mariner, his grandfather worked as a trawlerman out of Fleetwood.