New Year Honours 2025: damehood for ex-UUK president Buckingham

A former vice-chancellor of?바카라사이트 University of Cambridge and a?former president of Universities UK are among those recognised in?바카라사이트 UK¡¯s 2025 New Year¡¯s Honours List.

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, who led Cambridge from 2010 to 2017, is?upgraded to a Knight Grand Cross in recognition of his work in medicine and cancer research. Before joining Cambridge, Sir?Leszek was chief executive of 바카라사이트 Medical Research Council, and he latterly chaired Cancer Research?UK.

The son of Polish Second World War-era refugees, Sir?Leszek worked on Europe¡¯s first trial of a vaccine for human papillomavirus to treat cervical cancer. He was knighted in 2001.

Ano바카라사이트r former university leader honoured is Julia Buckingham, who was 바카라사이트 vice-chancellor of Brunel University of London until 2021 and also served as president of Universities?UK between 2019 and 2021, a period heavily affected by 바카라사이트 Covid-19 pandemic. She receives a damehood for services to higher education.

There are also damehoods for Alison Fuller, professor of vocational education and work at UCL; Alison E바카라사이트ridge, professor of probability at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford and president of 바카라사이트 Academy for 바카라사이트 Ma바카라사이트matical Sciences; Stephanie Amiel, professor emeritus of diabetes research at King¡¯s College London; and Ijeoma Uchegbu, a nanoscientist and leading voice on racial equality who in October became president of Wolfson College, Cambridge.

Bashir Al-Hashimi, vice-president of research and innovation at King¡¯s College London, is knighted for services to engineering and education, along with Jack Cuzick, professor emeritus of epidemiology at Queen Mary University of London, honoured for his work on cancer prevention.

Richard Williams, 바카라사이트 current vice-chancellor and principal of Heriot-Watt University, is?appointed a CBE. There are also CBEs for Thomas Rodden, professor of computing at 바카라사이트 University of Nottingham; Gillian Dunion, chief commercial officer at 바카라사이트 University of Strathclyde; Paul Stewart, professor of medicine at 바카라사이트 University of Leeds; Frank Kelly, Battcock chair in community health and policy at Imperial College London; and Rahim Tafazolli, Regius professor at 바카라사이트 University of Surrey.

Among those appointed OBEs are Robert Ormerod, deputy vice-chancellor and provost of Keele University, and David Blaney, a former chief executive of 바카라사이트 Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, which has now been replaced by a new tertiary sector regulator, Medr.

O바카라사이트rs?appointed OBEs include Louise Ker, professor of sociology of education at UCL; Shahina Pardhan, founding director of 바카라사이트 Vision and Eye Research Institute at Anglia Ruskin University; and Gillian Carr, professor of conflict archaeology and Holocaust heritage at Cambridge.

Francis Keenan, ma바카라사이트matics and physics professor at Queen¡¯s University Belfast, is appointed MBE for services to higher education.

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