title: Peter Noyes
text: # Peter Noyes
  
  Peter Noyes is a Welsh academic who was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Newport in Newport, South Wales, UK, 2006-2012.
  
  Noyes has a degree in social psychology from Loughborough University and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of London. Noyes joined the University of Wales administrative staff in 1996, after previously working at the Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education; he was appointed as vice-chancellor in 2006. On 8 May 2012 he issued a statement that he would be stepping down from his post at the end of the academic year for "personal reasons".
  
  