Well the release was published today and the news is out there, I am now a member of staff as well as a PhD research student at the Birmingham Centre for Railway Research and Education (BCRRE), which is in the School of Engineering at the University of Birmingham.
You can see the release here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/railway/news/2018/new-business-director-rail-research.aspx
This is a hugely exciting time for BCRRE, in particular with the recent launch of the UK Rail Research and Innovation Network in which we have a significant role and which I am looking forward to keeping heavily involved in.