Complex sentence: Nicholas H. "Nick" Foskett is Vice-Chancellor at Keele University in Staffordshire (August 2010--present), and was formerly a Professor of Education at the University of Southampton and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences.
Split into simpler sentences: Nicholas H. "Nick" Foskett is Vice-Chancellor at Keele University in Staffordshire (August 2010 -). He was formerly a Professor of Education at the University of Southampton and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Arts and Social Sciences.