Glittering prizes

The late Diana, Princess of Wales will be commemorated tomorrow in an awards ceremony in her memory held by Leicester University.

Winners of a Diana, Princess of Wales award for research and practice in communication are: Gerda Wilson, senior specialist in stammering at the Warneford Hospital, Oxford; and Yab Dato'Seri'i Anwar Ibrahim, the imprisoned former deputy prime minister of Malaysia for his work with Unesco on global literacy.

Imperial College has awarded honorary degrees to independent film producer Lord Puttnam of Queensgate, (DLit); Dame Bridget Ogilvie, former director of the Wellcome Trust (DSc); and Sir Richard Sykes, chairman of Glaxo Wellcome plc (DSc).

The college has awarded associateships to Francis Irving, a former lecturer at Imperial and co-pilot in the first crossing of the English Channel in a two-seat glider; and Derek Miller, former senior project engineer at Imperial.

The Open University has awarded honorary doctorates of the university to Alan Tuckett, director of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education for England and Wales; Pauline Clare, the first woman chief constable; Sir Martin Wood, a leading expert in magnet technology; and Daphne Osborne, visiting professor in plant physiology and head of plant research at the university.

Brian Ward, reader in American history at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, has been awarded the Organisation of American Historians' James A. Rawley Prize for the best book on US race relations for Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness and Race Relations. Mr Ward is believed to be the first non-American winner of the Rawley.

The Open University has awarded an honorary doctorate of the university to Clive McKee, a former chemistry lecturer at Bradford University, who was paralysed after falling downstairs 12 years ago.