Rate My Professor Mike Caine

Professor Mike Caine serves as Interim Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at Aston University. He holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham and has built a distinguished career in higher education leadership and academic research. Prior to his roles at Aston, he held senior positions at Loughborough University, including membership on the Executive Board, and at the University of Warwick. His leadership has focused on delivering transformational organisational change, major capital programmes, and innovation-enabled economic growth. Professor Caine has collaborated with government bodies, the National Centre for Universities and Business, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, establishing expertise in place-based innovation ecosystems and the role of fourth-generation universities in driving economic and societal impact.

His research specializations encompass sports technology, sports engineering, sports analytics, materials and technology in sport, and innovation. Key publications include work on graduated compression stockings (2007), experimental measurement and finite element modelling of compressive properties of laser sintered Nylon-12 (2006), player tracking data analytics in football (2018), materials and technology in sport (2012), and recent contributions on machine learning frameworks for football analytics (2023-2024). At Aston University, he has advanced research performance, knowledge exchange, and technology transfer. Professor Caine's contributions have influenced the development of sports engineering as an academic discipline and broader innovation practices in higher education.