Chairs

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

Personal professorships: A. R. Hawkins, reader, professor of molecular genetics; R. Jordan, reader, professor of medical education; R. Kenny, clinical senior lecturer, professor of geriatric medicine; N. Simmons, reader, professor of epithelial physiology; R. Taylor, reader, professor of metabolic medicine; J. Dobson, principal research associate, professor of information management; R. Jackson, reader, professor of synthetic organic chemistry; C. Anderson, senior lecturer, professor of environmental engineering; M. Bell, reader, professor of transport operations; J. Fawcett, senior lecturer, professor of machine dynamics; A. O'Neill, senior lecturer, professor of physical electronics; A. Champion, reader, professor of population geography; A. Gillespie, senior lecturer, professor of communications geography; T. Gray, senior lecturer, professor of political thought; J. Walker, senior lecturer, professor of family policy; B. Brown, reader, professor of tropical marine biology.

UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON Charlotte de Syllas is the university's first visiting professor of jewellery design in the school of art and design.

UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN Professorships have been conferred on: B. Jones, professor of computing; R. Wiltshire, professor in applied mathematics; M. Majumdar, professor of French and Francophone studies; M. Warner, professor in health policy and strategy; W. George, professor of molecular spectroscopy.