Reports

Report of the General Board on the establishment of an MRC Professorship of Cognitive Brain Sciences

The General Board begs leave to report to the University as follows:

1. The General Board recommends the establishment of an MRC Professorship of Cognitive Brain Sciences as set out in paragraph 2 below. The funding arrangements were scrutinized by the Secretary of the Resource Management Committee on 13 October 2017.

2. The Board has accepted an academic case from the Faculty Board of Clinical Medicine and the Council of the School of Clinical Medicine for the establishment for a single tenure, from 1 January 2018, of an MRC Professorship of Cognitive Brain Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry. The full salary costs of the Professorship would be funded by the Medical Research Council. The MRC Professor of Cognitive Brain Sciences would be appointed as the Director of the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBU) in accordance with the agreement between the University and the Medical Research Council concerning the governance of the Unit. Election to the Professorship would be made by the General Board and the candidature would be open without limitation or preference to all persons whose work falls within the general field of the title of the Professorship.

3. The General Board recommends:

I. That an MRC Professorship of Cognitive Brain Sciences be established in the University, for a single tenure from 1 January 2018, placed in the Schedule to Special Ordinance C (vii) 1, and assigned to the Department of Psychiatry.

II. That the following is inserted in Special Ordinance C (vii) B. 1(c) as new sub-paragraph (iii) and existing sub-paragraph (iii) is renumbered (iv):

(iii) the MRC Professorship of Cognitive Brain Sciences;

1 November 2017	Stephen Toope, Vice-Chancellor	Darshana Joshi	Susan Rankin
	Philip Allmendinger	Martha Krish	Philippa Rogerson
	Abigail Fowden	Patrick Maxwell	Helen Thompson
	David Good	Martin Millett	Graham Virgo
	A. L. Greer	Richard Prager	Mark Wormald