Staff Distinctions 2004/05
Suzanne Alexander (Director of the International Office) has been elected to membership of the UKCOSA Board of Trustees.
Sir Michael Atiyah (Chancellor of the University) has been awarded the Golden Order of Merit by the President of the Lebanon.
Professor Richard Baker (Health Sciences) has been invited to deliver the Patrick Byrne Memorial Lecture in General Practice at the University of Liverpool in 2005.
Professor Martin Barstow (Physics and Astronomy) has been appointed for three years as a European Space Agency representative to the Space Telescope Users Committee. He has also been appointed to lead a DfES/BNSC/PPARC initiative in Space Education.
Professor Martin Barstow (Physics and Astronomy) has been elected to the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society for a three-year period.
Professor John Benyon (Institute of Lifelong Learning) has been re-elected to serve for a further three-year term as Treasurer of the Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.
Dr Ann Briggs (Education and Continuing Studies) was awarded the BELMAS/ Toshiba prize for the best doctoral thesis at the annual Conference of the British Educational Management, Leadership and Administration Society.
Professor Ray Bull (Psychology) has been awarded a Commendation Certificate by the Metropolitan Police for assisting in the interview process associated with a very difficult police investigation.
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robert Burgess has been appointed as Chairman of the Board of Directors of UCAS.
Professor Gordon Campbell (English) has been elected by the Milton Society of America as its Honored Scholar for 2005 (he is one of only four English academics to have received this award since World War II; one of the other recipients was C. S. Lewis). He has also, at the invitation of the Iranian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Science and Technology, given a plenary address to a Higher Education conference in Ahwaz, South West Iran.
Professor Gordon Campbell (English) has been working for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British Council, the Department for International Development, and the Department for Education and Skills on a policy paper on education in the Islamic world.
Professor Andrew Colman (School of Psychology) has been elected as an Academician of the Social Sciences by the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (he is the third member of the University to be elected, joining the Vice-Chancellor and Professor Benyon).
Mr Neil Cox (Registrar’s Office) has been appointed to serve as one of only fifteen Assistant Panel Secretaries for the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Professor David Critchley (Biochemistry) has been appointed to the Scientific Executive Board of Cancer Research UK and will chair the CR-UK Programme Grants Committee.
Professor Nick Cull (Historical Studies) has been elected President of the International Association for Media and History.
Professor Paul Cullis (Chemistry) has been invited to serve for two years on the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Organic Division Committee as the Bio-organic Group Representative.
Mr George Doukas (Cardiovascular Sciences – Clinical Research Fellow) has won the Clinical Young Investigator Award at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the British Cardiac Society.
Professor David Ekserdjian (History of Art and Film) has been made an Honorary Citizen of the town of Correggio for the work he has undertaken on the artist Correggio (one of only four people to have been honoured by the town in this way).
Professor David Evans (Cardiovascular Sciences) has been awarded Honorary Membership of the British Medical Ultrasound Society.
Professor Peter Fearon (School of Historical Studies) has been invited to deliver the 2005 Bernard Bailyn Lecture at La Trobe University.
Mr George Ferzoco (Modern Languages) has been awarded an honourable mention for his monograph on the Massa Marittima Mural in the competition for the Inaugural Best Essay Prize awarded by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.
Professor John Fothergill (Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Engineering) has been recognised for his learning and teaching practices at The Higher Education Academy Engineering Subject Centre Teaching Awards. He was one of the six finalists for his work on ‘the implementation of an Optical Fibre Communications Module in a Virtual Learning Environment’.
Professor John Fothergill (Pro-Vice-Chancellor/Engineering) has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers for his contribution to reliability methodology in the ageing processes of electrical insulation systems.
Professor Harold Fox (Centre for English Local History, School of Historical Studies) has been appointed Chairman of the Landscape History Society.
Dr Richard Gornall (Biology and Director of the HaroldMartinBotanic Garden) has been elected President of The Botanical Society of the British Isles for a three-year period.
Dr Sarah Hainsworth (Engineering) has been appointed to the Board of the Engineering Technology Board, which is one of the major engineering bodies in the UK, working in partnership with business and industry, Government, education and the engineering profession to improve the perception of science, engineering and technology.
Dr Sarah Hainsworth (Engineering) has been invited to serve on the editorial board for the new International Journal of Forensic Engineering.
Dr Joanna Herbert (Centre for Urban History, School of Historical Studies) has been awarded the Ratcliff Prize ‘for an important contribution by an individual to the study of folk life in Great Britain and Ireland’, with an award of £3,000.
Professor Carol Jagger (Health Sciences) has been appointed to serve as joint chair of a working group to prepare a world ageing survey.
Dr Simon James (Archaeology and Ancient History) has been chosen by the Archaeological Institute of America as the Samuel H. Kress Lecturer in Ancient Art for 2005/06.
Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys (Genetics) has been elected as an Associate Fellow of the US National Academy of Science. He has also been inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame, which is a rare honour for a researcher working outside the US.
Dr Don Jones (Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine) has been nominated by the Education Board of the Faculty of Clinical Oncology of the Royal College of Radiologists, to serve as an Examining Board Member for the first examination for the Fellowship in Clinical Oncology. He has also been awarded the first Allison Wilson Memorial Fellowship of a £15,000 grant to study the effects of radiotherapy on cancer of the bladder.
Ms Sara Kenyon (Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine) has been appointed to the Chair of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence’s Guideline Development Group for Intrapartum Care.
Dr Kamlesh Khunti (Health Sciences) has been selected as the Mary Mackinnnon Lecturer for the Diabetes UK Annual Professional Conference in 2006. This is the most important national conference on diabetes in the UK.
Dr David Lambert (Cardiovascular Sciences) has been invited to lecture in Japan as a Visiting Professor at Hirosaki and KyushuUniversities.
Professor Ian Lauder (Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Biological Sciences) has been elected as Treasurer of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Dr John Lees (Physics and Astronomy) has been appointed to PPARC’s Industrial Programme Support Scheme Assessment Panel for three years from September 2004.
Professor Joe Lunec (Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine) has been appointed to serve for a further three years on the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment.
Professor Kilian Mellon (Cancer Studies and Molecular Medicine) has been awarded the 2004 Karl Storz-Harold Hopkins Golden Telescope Award and the sum of £1000. The award is given to members of the British Association of Urological Surgeons who within ten years of their first consultant appointment have made a significant and lasting contribution to Urology.
Professor Steve Nahorski (Cell Physiology and Pharmacology) has been elected to a Fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society in recognition of his commitment and distinction in pharmacology through scholarship and service to the Society.
Professor Marilyn Palmer (Archaeology and Ancient History) has been elected Chairman of the Association for Industrial Archaeology for a three- year term and Chairman of the Buildings Archaeology Group of the Institute of Field Archaeologists.
Dr Jonathan Prag (Archaeology and Ancient History) has been awarded the Premio di Studio Guiseppe Nenci prize by the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, for his Ph.D. thesis on the archaeology and ancient history of Sicily. Dr Prag is the first non-Italian to win it this annual prize.
Professor Stewart Petersen (Medical and Social Care Education) has been awarded a Medal of Honour by the University of the Free State in South Africa for his services to medical education in that country.
Professor Ian Postlethwaite (Engineering) has been invited to Chair the Defence Technology’s Research Advisory Board, in the context of the establishment by the MOD of the Systems Engineering for Autonomous Systems (SEAS) Defence Technology Centre (DTC).
Sir Martin Rees (Visiting Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Honorary DSc, Leicester) has been awarded the Crafoord Prize 2005 by the RoyalSwedishAcademy of Sciences for ‘contributions towards understanding the large-scale structure of the universe’. The prize recognises research in areas not covered by the Nobel Prizes.
Professor Richard Rodger (Historical Studies) has been elected to the Academy of the Social Sciences (this brings the total of Academy members in the University to four).
Dr Rosie Sage (Education) has been selected to head the Tertiary Level Universalization Programme in Cuba and Latin America for teachers of students with special needs and special educational needs; she will initially train all the Heads of Schools of Education in the sixteen universities in Cuba, as well as others from the Latin American countries. This project is being funded by the Cuban Government.
Jon Shears and Carl Vivian (Audio Visual Services) have received a Technical Achievement Award for the Best Camera Work in the Non Broadcast category for Formal Education at this year’s Learning On Screen Conference.
Dr Mark Sims (Physics and Astronomy) has been appointed by PPARC as Chairman of the Aurora Advisory Committee, which will coordinate and define the case for the future European programme in planetary science, and the UK’s involvement in this.
Professor Robert Smith (Biology) has been invited to serve for a further two-year term as Deputy Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Pesticides and Chairman of the Environmental Panel. He has also been invited by the Pesticides Safety Directorate to serve as a Research Programme Advisor for the DEFRA R&D Programme in Pesticide Risk Assessment to Non-Target Organisms and the Ecological Impact of Pesticides.
Professor Sarah Spurgeon (Engineering) has been invited to serve on the editorial board for the new International Journal of Forensic Engineering. She has also been elected to the grade of Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Richard Taylor (Director of Marketing) and Ather Mirza (Director of Press and Publications) have received on behalf of the University the Heist Gold Award for a Marketing and Public Relations campaign for a promotion relating to the Department of Genetics.
Mrs Diane Thomason (Safety Services Office) has been awarded the grade of Credit for her National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health (NEBOSH) Diploma in Health and Safety. This is in the context of there being only a 40% pass rate for the diploma.
Dr Jonathan Thompson (Cardiovascular Sciences) is Assistant Editor of the British Journal of Anaesthesia, and has recently been elected to its Editorial Board.
Professor Elaine Treharne (English) has been elected Chair of the Teachers of Old English in Britain and Ireland for a three-year period of office.
Professor Greg Walker (English) has won the Times Higher’s ‘campus novel opening chapter competition’ (published in the Higher on 14 October).
Emeritus Professor Alan Wells (Physics and Astronomy) has been elected by the Council of Institutions of the University Space Research Association to serve a three-year term on the USRA Board of Trustees.
Dr John Williams (Cardiovascular Sciences) has been recognised as having delivered the best trainee presentation at the Spring meeting of the UK Anaesthetic Research Society, and has separately won the Royal College of Anaesthetists’ Jubilee Medal for a presentation which has subsequently been published as an abstract.
Professor Peter Williams (Genetics) has been appointed to the Board of Experts for the Committee for Research Evaluation (CIVR) set up by the Italian Ministry of Education for its triennial assessment of research quality in Italian universities.
Dr Chris Willmott (Biochemistry) has been invited to edit the Learning and Teaching Support Network Centre for Bioscience’s e-journal Bioscience Education.
Dr Gillian Youngs (Centre for Mass Communication Research) has been elected as a Non-North American Representative to the Governing Council of the US-based International Studies Association for the 2006-07 term. She has also been appointed to the editorial board of a new journal Global Ethics, which will be launched in the Summer of 2005.