No 6357
Wednesday 24 September 2014
Vol cxlv No 1
pp. 1–22
In their Report of 11 June 2014 on Senior Academic Promotions (Reporter, 6351, 2013–14, p. 621) the General Board recommended the establishment of 30 Professorships and 42 Readerships. In Paragraph 5 it was stated that the Board would announce the titles at a later date after consultation with the individuals concerned. The recommendations of the Report were approved by Grace 2 of 30 July 2014. The following list of appointments includes the titles that have been agreed.
(with effect from 1 October 2014)
Dr Dominic Keown, F, appointed Professor of Catalan Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dr Marina Frolova-Walker, CL, appointed Professor of Music History in the Faculty of Music
Dr Julie Ahringer, appointed Professor of Genetics and Genomics in the Department of Genetics
Dr Nicholas Brown, appointed Professor of Cell Biology in the Department of Physiology, Development, and Neuroscience
Dr Julian Hibberd, EM, appointed Professor in Photosynthesis in the Department of Plant Sciences
Dr Alexander Webb, CHU, appointed Professor of Cell Signalling in the Department of Plant Sciences
Dr James Russell, Q, appointed Professor of Cognitive Development in the Department of Psychology
Dr Christopher Jiggins, JN, appointed Professor of Evolutionary Biology in the Department of Zoology
Dr Susan Ozanne, CHU, appointed Professor of Developmental Endocrinology in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Dr Franklin Aigbirhio, appointed Professor of Molecular Imaging Chemistry in the Department of Clinical Neurosciences
Dr Rebecca Fitzgerald, T, appointed Professor of Cancer Prevention in the Department of Oncology
Dr Joya Chatterji, T, appointed Professor of South Asian History in the Faculty of History
Dr Mark Goldie, CHU, appointed Professor of Intellectual History in the Faculty of History
Dr Harri Englund, CHU, appointed Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology
Dr Peter Harris, CHU, appointed Professor of Tax Law in the Faculty of Law
Dr Martin Dixon, Q, appointed Professor of the Law of Real Property in the Department of Land Economy
Dr Nicholas Butterfield, SE, appointed Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology in the Department of Earth Sciences
Dr Adrian Kent, W, appointed Professor of Quantum Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Dr Neshan Wickramasekera, CHU, appointed Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics
Dr Jonathan Goodman, CL, appointed Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry
Dr Jonathan Nitschke, appointed Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry
Dr Crispin Barnes, G, appointed Professor of Quantum Physics in the Department of Physics
Dr Russell Cowburn, DAR, appointed Professor of Experimental Physics in the Department of Physics
Dr Zoran Hadzibabic, T, appointed Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics
Dr Michael Pollitt, SID, appointed Professor of Business Economics in the Judge Business School
Dr Cecilia Mascolo, JE, appointed Professor of Mobile Systems in the Computer Laboratory
Dr Simon Moore, TH, appointed Professor of Computer Engineering in the Computer Laboratory
Dr Julian Allwood, CAI, appointed Professor of Engineering and the Environment in the Department of Engineering
Dr Abir Al-Tabbaa, SID, appointed Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Department of Engineering
Dr Carl Rasmussen, DAR, appointed Professor of Machine Learning in the Department of Engineering
(with effect from 1 October 2014)
Dr Wendy Pullan, CL, appointed Reader in Architecture and Urban Studies in the Department of Architecture
Dr Ingo Gildenhard, K, appointed Reader in Classics and the Classical Tradition in the Faculty of Classics
Dr Caroline Vout, CHR, appointed Reader in Classics in the Faculty of Classics
Dr Katharine Dell, CTH, appointed Reader in Old Testament Literature and Theology in the Faculty of Divinity
Dr Gavin Alexander, CHR, appointed Reader in Renaissance Literature in the Faculty of English
Dr Priyamvada Gopal, CHU, appointed Reader in Anglophone and Related Literatures in the Faculty of English
Dr Richard Dance, CTH, appointed Reader in Early English in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic
Dr Abigail Brundin, CTH, appointed Reader in Early Modern Literature and Culture in the Department of Italian
Dr Helena Sanson, CL, appointed Reader in Italian Language, Literature and Culture in the Department of Italian
Dr Geoffrey Kantaris, CTH, appointed Reader in Latin American Culture in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Dr Anna-Leena Korhonen, appointed Reader in Computational Linguistics in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics
Dr Luca Pellegrini, appointed Reader in Structural Biology in the Department of Biochemistry
Dr Jennifer Nichols, appointed Reader in Embroyonic Pluripotency in the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience
Dr John Carr, CC, appointed Reader in Plant Virology in the Department of Plant Sciences
Dr Julia Davies, R, appointed Reader in Plant Membrane Biology in the Department of Plant Sciences
Dr Jonathan Simons, EM, appointed Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology
Dr Walter Federle, JE, appointed Reader in Comparative Biomechanics in the Department of Zoology
Dr Mark Holmes, F, appointed Reader in Microbial Genomics and Veterinary Science in the Department of Veterinary Medicine
Dr Akhilesh Reddy, JN, appointed Reader in Clinical Neuroscience in the Department of Clinical Biochemistry
Dr Kevin O’Shaughnessy, CAI, appointed Reader in Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Medicine
Dr Jane Fruehwirth, CHR, appointed Reader in Economics in the Faculty of Economics
Dr Hubertus Jahn, CL, appointed Reader in History of Russia and the Caucasus in the Faculty of History
Dr Sujit Sivasundaram, CAI, appointed Reader in World History in the Faculty of History
Dr Emma Spary, CC, appointed Reader in the History of Modern European Knowledge in the Faculty of History
Dr Duncan Kelly, JE, appointed Reader in Political Thought in the Department of Politics and International Studies
Dr Neil Jones, M, appointed Reader in English Legal History in the Faculty of Law
Dr Nicholas Hopwood, DAR, appointed Reader in History of Science and Medicine in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
Dr John Maclennan, EM, appointed Reader in Earth Sciences in the Department of Earth Sciences
Dr Emma Mawdsley, N, appointed Reader in Human Geography in the Department of Geography
Dr Bhaskar Vira, F, appointed Reader in Political Economy of Environment and Development in the Department of Geography
Dr Daniel Baumann, appointed Reader in Theoretical Physics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Dr Vasily Belokurov, appointed Reader in Astrophysics in the Institute of Astronomy
Dr Stephen Jenkins, ED, appointed Reader in Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry
Dr Ramachandran Kumar, TH, appointed Reader in Materials Chemistry in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy
Dr Ben Gripaios, K, appointed Reader in Theoretical Physics in the Department of Physics
Dr Austen Lamacraft, JN, appointed Reader in Theoretical Physics in the Department of Physics
Dr David Chambers, appointed Reader in Finance in the Judge Business School
Dr Ruchi Choudhary, appointed Reader in Architectural Engineering in the Department of Engineering
Dr Richard Fenner, W, appointed Reader in Engineering Sustainability in the Department of Engineering
Dr Geoffrey Parks, JE, appointed Reader in Nuclear Engineering in the Department of Engineering
Dr Jochen Zeitler, CAI, appointed Reader in Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Dr Susan Oosthuizen, W, appointed Reader in Medieval Archaeology in the Institute of Continuing Education
The General Board have, on the recommendation of the University Research Ethics Committee, approved amendments to the membership and remit of the Committee (Statutes and Ordinances, 2013, p. 666) to enable representation of all six Schools on the Committee and to establish an advisory role for the Committee in the area of research integrity, as follows:
By amending Regulation 1(f) so as to read:
(f)six persons appointed by the General Board, one each on the nomination of the Councils of the Schools to ensure appropriate representation of areas of research involving human participants or personal data and a breadth of expertise in research integrity matters;
By inserting new Regulation 3(viii) as follows:
(viii)advise the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research) on the development and implementation of policy and procedures related to research integrity.