Honorary degrees

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE DCL: Elsie Tu, senior member of the Legislative Council and Municipal Council of Hong Kong.

DLitt: Neil Astley, managing director and senior editor of Bloodaxe Books; Klaus Kunzmann, professor of European spatial policy and director of the faculty research Institute, University of Dortmund.

DMus: James Bowman, counter tenor, teacher of voice at Guildhall School of Music and visiting teacher at the Royal Academy of Music and the Royal College of Music.

MD: Bridget Ogilvie, director of the Wellcome Trust and visiting professor at Imperial College, London.

UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ENGLAND Honorary doctorates were conferred upon Kirit Pathak, chairman and chief executive of Patak (Spices) Limited; Jeanette Webber, chief nursing officer to the Cancer Relief Macmillan Fund and senior research fellow in the centre for cancer and palliative care studies at the Institute for Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital.