Chairs

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS.

John Self, reader in computing at Lancaster University, to a chair in knowledge-based systems; Christopher Wild, chief of the unit of environmental carcino-genesis at the International Agency for Research on Cancer, to a chair of molecular epidemiology; P. Michell, professor of advertising and marketing at Manchester Business School, to the chair in marketing and media; R. Watson, reader in the school of business and economic studies, to a chair in finance and accountancy; Inge Bates, senior lecturer, developmental chair in education and work; Stuart Ogden, senior lecturer, developmental chair in accounting and organisational analysis.

Personal chairs have been awarded to the following readers: Simon Baumberg, professor of bacterial genetics; Peter Bonsall, professor of transport planning; A.G. Cohn, professor in automated reasoning; Barry Cooper, professor of mathematical logic; Paul Hammon, professor of 17th-century English literature; Peter Knowles, professor of biophysical chemistry; David Bell, senior lecturer, professor of French government and Alexander Davison, honorary senior lecturer, professor of renal medicine.

UNIVERSITY OF READING David Balding, honorary visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales, has been appointed professor of applied statistics.