Mark Andrew Peel (born 17 October 1959), historian and academic, was the Director of Educational Innovation at the University of Leicester until retiring in 2019.
He also served the university as Provost (from 2015 to 2017), Pro Vice Chancellor (Student Experience) and Head of the College of Arts, Humanities and Law.
Before going to Leicester, he was Professor of Modern Cultural and Social History and Head of the School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool and a Professor and Head of the School of Historical Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University in Australia.
[1] Peel's interest in student transition to university education led to a report in the federal government's Higher Education Series in 1999[2] and a research project on school-leavers' experiences of university teaching.
In 2008, the Australian Learning and Teaching Council awarded him one of its Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, for "sustained contributions to the imaginative teaching of history, and to the transition, progress and welfare of students in his own and other universities".