Glittering prizes

The University of Luton has awarded honorary degrees to: James Dyer, local archaeologist and historian; John Hegley, comic poet; John Andrews, professor at the university; Jean Watson, University of Colorado; and Derek Ludlow, chairman of the Ludlow Group.

Philip Schlesinger, director of the Stirling Media Research Institute in the department of film and media studies, University of Stirling, has been awarded an honorary doctorate in humanities by the University of Aalborg, Denmark.

Goldsmiths College has awarded honorary fellowships to: Bob Pinker, academic and privacy commissioner of the Press Complaints Commission; Frances de la Tour, actress; Peter Galloway, priest and author; and Sir Michael Burton, high court judge and founder of the Corinne Burton Memorial Trust.

Colin Ballantyne, Simon Hinchcliffe and John Walden, all members of the environmental reconstruction research group of the school of geography and geosciences at the University of St Andrews, have won the 1999 Wiley Award from the British Geomorphological Research Group.