Sir Howard Joseph Newby CBE DL SBS (born 10 December 1947) is a British sociologist.
[1] His other academic posts include professor of sociology at the University of Essex and visiting appointments in Australia and the United States.
From 1983 to 1988 he was director of the ESRC Data Archive, a national facility for storing and disseminating computerised datasets for use by researchers in the public and private sectors.
In November 2008, Newby announced plans to transform Liverpool University into a centre for "knowledge exchange", opening a graduate school in India.
[6] In January 2009, academics and trade unions at Liverpool were reported as expressing unease at planned restructuring, the offer of voluntary redundancy to all staff and the use of a private company Spirit of Creation (previously used at UWE) in circumventing "established structures and procedures in pushing the plan through".