Chairs

TERNOPIL PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE, UKRAINE

An honorary professorship has been conferred on Mark Mabey, head of the corporate enterprise centre at the University of Wolverhampton.

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS

Brian Richardson, former senior lecturer, developmental chair in Italian language; Christopher Wild, former chief of the unit of environmental carcinogenesis, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyons, chair of molecular epidemiology; Ian Chopra, director and vice-president, microbiology research with SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, chair of microbiology; Beverly Alimo-Metcalfe, senior lecturer in the Nuffield Institute, developmental chair in leadership studies; Peter Grant, senior lecturer, developmental chair in molecular vascular medicine.

QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY, BELFAST

Howard Fee, senior lecturer/consultant in anaesthetics, chair of anaesthesia; Michael Finnis, formerly at the UK Atomic Energy Authority and the Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, chair in computer modelling of macromolecules/molecular dynamics; David Woolfson, reader in pharmaceutical science and one of the two developers of Ametop Gel (an anaesthetic gel) chair in pharmacy; Alan Sangster, reader in accounting at the University of Aberdeen, chair of accounting.

UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH

Andrew Kingsnorth, reader in surgery at the University of Liverpool, professor of surgery.