Chairs

University of Dundee

Mike Kerr, former reader, microbiology; Georgina Follett, head of the school of design; Steve Partridge, head of the school of television and imaging; Colin Watts, reader, immunobiology.

University of Sussex

Reader Hilary Buxton, professor of visual intelligence; Reader Kosmas Prassides, professor in solid state chemistry.

University of Greenwich

Thomas Acton, Romani studies; Robert Cheke, becomes professor of tropical zoology; Ian Grant, environmental toxicology; Christopher Haines, postharvest technology; David Hall, chemical ecology; Martin Hebblethwaite, social sciences in development; Ian McNay, higher education and management; Elizabeth Meerabeau, health care.

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