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==Post-war career==
After the war, Priestley was promoted to acting [[Major (rank)|major]] on 24 January 1919,<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31424|date=27 June 1919 |page=8189 |supp=y|nolink=y}}</ref> and was seconded to the War Office that year to write the history of the signal service. He also wrote "Breaking the Hindenburg Line", an account of 46 (North Midland) Division's spectacular attack during the [[Battle of St Quentin Canal]]. During April–May 1919, he was a staff officer to the Signal Officer-in-Chief, with the temporary rank of major.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=31565|date=23 September 1919 |page=11859 |supp=y|nolink=y}}</ref> He relinquished his temporary commission on 17 November 1920, reverting to the permanent rank of lieutenant in the Territorial Force.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32168|date=17 December 1920|page=12477 |supp=y|nolink=y}}</ref> From 19 February 1921, he again held the temporary rank of major in the reserves, in the 3rd London, [[Royal Corps of Signals]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32233|date=18 February 1921|page=1443 |supp=y|nolink=y}}</ref> On 6 July 1921, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the Cambridge University Contingent (Senior Division), Officers Training Corps.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32381|date=5 July 1921|page=5452 |supp=y|nolink=y}}</ref> He was promoted to captain on 21 June 1922 and resigned his commission on 30 June 1926, retaining the rank of major.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=32721|date=20 June 1922|page=4648 |supp=|nolink=y}}</ref><ref>{{London Gazette |issue=33177|date=29 June 1926|page=4236 |supp=|nolink=y}}</ref>
His research and thesis on [[glaciers in the Antarctic]] earned him a BA (Research) at Cambridge in 1920. The same year, he co-founded, with fellow Terra Nova expedition member [[Frank Debenham]], the [[Scott Polar Research Institute]] in Cambridge. In 1922, Priestley was elected fellow of Clare College. In 1924 he joined the university's administrative staff, becoming concurrently assistant registrar, secretary to the board of research studies and secretary-general of the faculties. From the 1930s until his retirement, he held a series of academic and government administrative posts in Australia and [[England]]. He was Vice-Chancellor of the [[University of Melbourne]] from 1935 until resigning in 1938 on a matter of principle after one of several confrontations with the Chancellor. He returned to Britain to be Vice-Chancellor of the [[University of Birmingham]] (1938–52). He was knighted for Services to Education in the [[1949 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=38493 |date=31 December 1948 |pages=2|supp=y}}</ref>
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