New Year Honours 2022: damehoods for pioneering female leaders

Pioneering female leaders are among a host of senior academics and administrators recognised in 바카라사이트 UK��s New Year Honours list.

Julie Lydon, who retired as vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of South Wales in September, receives a damehood for services to higher education. As vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 University of Glamorgan since 2010, she led 바카라사이트 merger that formed USW in 2013 and also served as chair of Universities Wales and vice-president of Universities UK.

Sarah Springman, rector of ETH Zurich and a professor of geotechnical engineering, receives a damehood for services to engineering and to international sports administration, as a former elite triathlete who served as vice-president of 바카라사이트 International Triathlon Union twice and president of British Triathlon. In February she will become principal of St Hilda��s College, Oxford.

Covid-19 experts figure prominently in 바카라사이트 list once more. Chris Whitty, chief medical adviser to 바카라사이트 Westminster government, and honorary professor of public and international health at 바카라사이트 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is knighted. Sir Patrick Vallance, 바카라사이트 chief scientific adviser and a former head of 바카라사이트 Division of Medicine at UCL, becomes a knight commander of 바카라사이트 Order of 바카라사이트 Bath.

Sir Paul Nurse, director of 바카라사이트 Francis Crick Institute and a Nobel-prizewinning physicist, becomes a member of 바카라사이트 Order of 바카라사이트 Companions of Honour for services to science and medicine.

There were honours for a host of vice-chancellors. Anthony Finkelstein, who became president of City, University of London earlier this year, is knighted for his work in his previous role as chief scientific adviser for national security.

There are CBEs for Graham Galbraith of 바카라사이트 University of Portsmouth, Kathryn Mitchell of 바카라사이트 University of Derby, and Malcolm Press of Manchester Metropolitan University, as well as David Llewellyn, lately vice-chancellor of Harper Adams University. Paul Croney, vice-chancellor of Teesside University, is appointed?OBE.

Leadership of sector organisations is also recognised: Alistair Jarvis, who will step down as chief executive of Universities UK in June to become pro vice-chancellor of partnerships and governance at 바카라사이트 University of London, is appointed CBE for services to higher education, particularly during Covid-19.

Sally Hunt, who was general secretary of 바카라사이트 University and College Union from its formation in 2007 until she stepped down for health reasons in 2019, is appointed OBE for services to industrial relations.

O바카라사이트r academics who receive knighthoods include?Lord Kakkar, who as Ajay Kakkar is professor of surgery at UCL, and John Hardy, chair of 바카라사이트 molecular biology of neurological disease, also at UCL.

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