No 6836
Wednesday 23 September 2026
Vol clvii No 1
pp. 1–17
An updated agreement has been reached on the salary arrangements for clinical academic staff with effect from 1 April 2026. Following a recent meeting of the Board of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, the Clinical Academic Staff Salaries Committee has agreed to translate the award of the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body into the salaries of clinical academic staff.
In accordance with the principle that the remuneration of clinical academic staff in Cambridge should be broadly comparable with that of equivalent staff in other UK medical schools, the General Board has agreed to approve revised stipends and scales of stipends for clinical appointments in Cambridge.
Salaries for doctors and dentists in training have been increased by 3.5%–7.1% with effect from 1 April 2026. The figures currently shown in Schedule II to the Ordinance for Stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, 2025, p. 682) are replaced with effect from 1 April 2026 and are as follows:
For Clinical Lecturers
on the equivalent of the NHS ‘new’ 2016 pay system:
Clinical Lecturer £41,226 by
five nodal points to £77,348
In its Report of 10 June 2026 on the outcomes of the Academic Career Pathways (Research and Teaching) and (Teaching and Scholarship) 2025–26 exercises (Reporter, 6828, 2025–26, p. 524), the General Board recommendations included the following, all with effect from 1 October 2026:
•The establishment of 36 Professorships at Grade 12
•The establishment of 4 Clinical Professorships
•The establishment of 30 Professorships (Grade 11)
•The appointment of 1 individual with curatorial, conservation and associated responsibilities to a Grade 10 office
•The establishment of 1 Professorship at Grade 12
•The appointment of 1 individual to an unestablished Teaching Professorship (Grade 11)
The recommendations of the Report were approved by Grace 2 of 22 July 2026. The following list of appointments includes the titles that have been agreed.
Dr James Nicholas Benedict Carleton Paget, PET, appointed Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
Professor Alex Houen, PEM, appointed Professor of Modern Literature and Critical Theory
Professor Marcus John Waithe, M, appointed Professor of Literature and the Applied Arts
Professor Stanley Simon Bill, SID, appointed Professor of Polish Studies
Professor Rebecca Lawson, CL, appointed Professor of Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry
Professor Nicholas James Cunniffe, G, appointed Professor of Plant Disease Epidemiology
Professor Christopher Thomas Rodgers, PET, appointed Professor of Biomedical Imaging
Professor Karen Dorothea Ersche, CLH, appointed Professor of Addiction Neuroscience
Professor Robert Nathan Duschinsky, SID, appointed Professor of Social Science and Health
Professor Riikka Johanna Hofmann, HH, appointed Professor of the Learning Sciences
Professor Celia Harriet Donert, W, appointed Professor of Contemporary European History
Dr Tamsin Christina O’Connell, TH, appointed Professor of Isotopic Ecology
Professor Uradyn Erden Bulag, SE, appointed Professor of Social Anthropology
Professor Bobby Vijay Reddy, CHU, appointed Professor of Corporate Law and Governance
Professor Richard Anthony William Staley, CAI, appointed Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
Professor Maria Agneta Abreu, PEM, appointed Professor of Economic Geography
Professor Emma Frances Inglis Lees, DOW, appointed Professor of Environmental and Property Law
Professor Daniel Jared Field, CHR, appointed Professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology
Professor Emilie Ringe, CAI, appointed Professor of Synthetic and Natural Nanomaterials
Professor Patricia Mia Gray, G, appointed Professor of Economic Geography
Professor Richard Charles Powell, F, appointed Professor of Historical and Political Geography
Professor Hamza Fawzi, appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics
Professor Robert Logan Jack, EM, appointed Professor of Statistical Mechanics
Professor David Benjamin Skinner, T, appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics
Professor Christopher Edward Thomas, CHR, appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics
Professor Maria Ubiali, N, appointed Professor of Theoretical Particle Physics and Phenomenology
Professor Julia Wolf, T, appointed Professor of Pure Mathematics
Professor Oliver Charles Henry Shorttle, CL, appointed Professor of Natural Philosophy
Professor Dominique Francoise Lauga, EM, appointed Professor of Marketing
Professor Anil Venkata Sesha Madhavapeddy, PEM, appointed Professor of Planetary Computing
Professor Amanda Stella Markowska Prorok, PEM, appointed Professor of Collective Intelligence and Robotics
Professor Jonathan Michael Cullen, F, appointed Professor of Sustainable Engineering
Professor Fulvio Forni, N, appointed Professor of Control Engineering and Robotics
Professor Yanyan Huang, HO, appointed Professor of Bioengineering
Professor Ioannis Charalambou Lestas, CL, appointed Professor of Control Engineering
Professor Teng Long, PET, appointed Professor of Power Electronics
Mr Adel Ezzat Helmy, CAI, appointed Clinical Professor of Translational Neurosurgery
Dr Nicholas John Matheson, appointed Clinical Professor of Virology and Medicine
Dr Virginia Felicity Jane Newcombe, W, appointed Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine
Dr Mark Robert Toshner, appointed Clinical Professor of Cardiorespiratory Medicine
Dr Irit Katz Feigis, CHR, appointed Professor of Architecture and Politics
Dr Claire Emma White, G, appointed Professor of Modern French Literature and Culture
Dr Johannes Kromdijk, PEM, appointed Professor of Environmental Plant Physiology
Dr James Edward Herbert-Read, appointed Professor of Behavioural Ecology
Dr Bryony Debra James, appointed Professor of Economics
Dr Tyler Jon Denmead, Q, appointed Professor of Education
Dr Rosalind Weir McLellan, HO, appointed Professor of Education
Mr Arthur Rene Charles Maxime Asseraf, PEM, appointed Professor of Modern and Contemporary History
Dr Matthew Ivor John Davies, appointed Professor of Applied Archaeology and Historical Ecology
Dr Tomas Henrik Larsson, JN, appointed Professor of Southeast Asian Politics
Dr Giovanni Fabrizio Mantilla Casas, CHR, appointed Professor of International Relations
Dr Brian Damien Sloan, R, appointed Professor of Property and Family Law
Dr Maria Ttofi, CLH, appointed Professor of Psychological Criminology
Dr Özge Öner, SID, appointed Professor of Urban and Regional Economics
Dr Alireza Mashayekhi, PET, appointed Professor of Climate and Environmental Science
Dr David Wallis, CHR, appointed Professor of Rock Deformation
Dr Sergio Andres Bacallado de Lara, M, appointed Professor of Statistics
Dr Rong Zhou, appointed Professor of Mathematics
Dr William James Handley, CAI, appointed Professor of Cosmology
Dr Jenny Zhenqi Zhang, N, appointed Professor of Bioenergetics and Materials Chemistry
Dr David Matthew Collins, EM, appointed Professor of Metallurgy
Dr Matthew William Kenzie, CL, appointed Professor of Particle Physics
Professor Teuta Pilizota, TH, appointed Professor of Physics of Life
Dr Oğuzhan Karakaş, appointed Professor of Finance
Dr Evangelia Kalyvianaki, LC, appointed Professor of Computer Systems
Dr Somenath Bakshi, appointed Professor of Systems and Synthetic Microbiology
Dr Flavia Mancini, PEM, appointed Professor of Computational Neuroscience
Dr Letizia Mortara, N, appointed Professor of Technology and Innovation Management
Dr Graham Christie, PET, appointed Professor of Microbiology
Dr Ewa Janina Marek, JE, appointed Professor of Sustainable Chemical Engineering
Dr Jody Patrick Joy, appointed Senior Assistant Curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Professor Matthew James Mason, CTH, appointed Professor of Comparative Physiology
Professor Florian Thomas Urmetzer, appointed Teaching Professor of Industrial Management
In accordance with the regulations for the title of Honorary Professor (Statutes and Ordinances, 2025, p. 670) and on the recommendation of the Faculty Boards concerned, the General Board have conferred on the persons named the following titles:
Honorary
Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience:
Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu, President
of Wolfson College, Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, University College London,
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of
Chemistry, Chief Scientific Officer of Nanomerics Ltd., in the School of the Biological
Sciences.
Honorary
Professor of Stem Cell Medicine:
Professor Elena Cattaneo, Director of the
Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Pharmacology of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Department
of Biosciences, University of Milan, co-founder and Director of UniStem, Centre for Stem
Cell Research, University of Milan, in the School of Clinical Medicine.
Honorary
Professor of Russian and Soviet Culture:
Professor Catriona Kelly, in the School
of Arts and Humanities.
Honorary
Professor of Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture:
Professor Virginia Cox,
in the School of Arts and Humanities.