The University of Manchester Degree Congregations JULY 2014 At The University of Manchester, we focus on making things happen, turning enthusiasm into achievement and ground-breaking theory into cutting-edge practice. Our newest graduates today join a prestigious We encourage our students to take charge hall of fame that includes 25 Nobel Prize winners of their future, finding a voice and forming among our current and former staff and opinions, getting involved and meeting fresh students, and a worldwide community of more challenges, making the most of the multitude than 240,000 alumni who can be found holding of resources and opportunities that we have top positions in every imaginable field. to offer. Over a distinguished history spanning more And we know, with their intelligence, inspiration than 180 years, our innovative minds have and ambition, our new graduates will find they accomplished feats of global importance, have what it takes to make their future happen. including the birth of the modern computer, the splitting of the atom, and the foundation of modern-day economics. Today, our students form a diverse and fascinating community, drawn from all corners of the globe, united in their goal to build a better future via a world-class educational experience of a lifetime. Welcome from the President and Vice-Chancellor I welcome you all – graduands, family For those of you graduating today, these members and friends – to The University of ceremonies mark not the end of your Manchester for this degree congregation. relationship with the University but the start of a new stage. It is my hope that the links This is a time of celebration for all of us and between the University and you will grow I very much hope that you find it an ever stronger and I look forward to you enjoyable occasion. As each graduand is becoming an active member of the presented for conferment of their degree, the University’s alumni body. University shares with you all a great sense of pride in the award they have worked so hard I wish you every success for the future and to attain. that you all have a truly memorable day. Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell President and Vice-Chancellor 1 The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences The quality, breadth and volume of research is large and comprehensive with nine component activity at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical schools: Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences is unrivalled. There are more than 70 Science; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth, specialist research centres and groups at the Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences; Faculty, each undertaking pioneering research Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Materials; into areas ranging from nuclear decommissioning Mathematics; Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil and nanotechnology to artificial intelligence Engineering; and Physics and Astronomy. and aerospace. Together they offer a diverse portfolio of research Research is at the heart of The University of and teaching of the highest quality. Manchester's Faculty of Engineering and Physical Many of the major advances of the 20th century Sciences. The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise began here, including the work by Rutherford revealed outstanding results, with all of our leading to the splitting of the atom and the departments demonstrating international or development of the world's first modern national excellence. computer. Today research activities remain at the cutting-edge and the Faculty now generates around £75 million in research funding a year. The Faculty of Humanities The Faculty of Humanities is the largest of the Centre for Equity in Education and the University’s four Faculties, with a world-leading Sustainable Consumption Institute. reputation in research that spans academic areas In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, as diverse as the arts, international development, Humanities was behind only Oxford and modern languages, education, law, the social Cambridge in the number of world-leading staff sciences, business and management. With a total returned, classified as 4*. Of its activity, 22% was income of around £190 million per annum, classed as world-leading and a further 40% as around 18,000, students and some 1,000 internationally excellent. academic staff, it is equivalent to a medium-sized university in the UK. Major institutes and centres include the Centre for New Writing, the Institute for Social Change, the Brooks World Poverty Institute, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, the Manchester Institute for Innovation Research, the Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, the Centre for Chinese Studies, the Institute for Development Policy and Management, the 2 The Faculty of Life Sciences The Faculty of Life Sciences is a world-class The Faculty's research fields include research establishment, recognised as an environmental biology, disease biology, international site of excellence in terms of neuroscience, genetics and zoology. There are research power and importance in the latest also world-leading researchers studying vision Research Assessment Exercise. science, bioethics and the history of science, technology and medicine. It is home to more than 1,000 researchers, over 2,000 undergraduate students and has an annual Academics regularly have their work published in budget in excess of £100 million. leading scientific journals and significant breakthroughs are consistently being made in the Students benefit from modern facilities, understanding of a range of diseases. innovative teaching techniques and the opportunity to be taught by leading experts from Rapid advances in molecular and structural across the breadth of the life sciences. The highly biology, genomics and bioinformatics will ensure interactive research and teaching environment that the life sciences continue to dominate allows the Faculty to conduct the highest quality scientific discoveries in the 21st century. research while maintaining an extensive range of undergraduate and graduate programmes as well as vocational training. The Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences The Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences has a performance in the 2008 Research Assessment long and proud history of innovative teaching and Exercise (RAE) reflects its strength across an entire ground breaking research, and is one of the largest range of biomedical and clinical research areas faculties of clinical and health sciences in Europe. from laboratory-based investigations through to The Faculty has five Schools Medicine, Dentistry, studies of the impact of discoveries on the health Pharmacy, Psychological Sciences, and Nursing, of the population. There is a strong organisational Midwifery and Social Work. It also has six Faculty capability for undertaking cross-faculty teaching research-focussed institutes: Brain Behaviour and and research activity in partnership with the public Mental Health; Cancer Sciences, Cardiovascular sector and industry. For example, in around 450 Sciences; Human Development; Inflammation and community placements/GP practices and 17 district Repair; and Population Health. The Faculty has hospitals, the Faculty trains in excess of 450 strong interdisciplinary links with other Schools, doctors each year. Similarly, in partnership with Faculties and Institutes across the University, the NHS and Health Education England, it provides including Life Sciences, Engineering and Physical continuing professional development for 60,000 Sciences, Economic and Social Sciences, Education pharmacy professionals in England. and the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute. Furthermore, teaching and research is spread over The School of Medicine traces its past to the first a wide area with major links to Central medical school established in England outside Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation London, while the School of Nursing was the first Trust, the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Salford British school to offer a degree in the subject; Royal NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospital of similarly, Manchester was the first university to South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, and award degrees in Pharmacy and was the first Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. university in Britain to appoint a full-time professor of psychology; the first degree programme in dentistry was introduced in 1904. The Faculty’s 3 The University of Manchester Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement is awarded to the top students in each graduating year based solely on academic performance and consists of a certificate presented at graduation and a cheque for £1,000. The prestigious award reflects the exceptional performance of the individual graduates during their time at The University of Manchester. Outstanding Academic Achievement Awards Faculty of Faculty of Humanities Asen Mitrev Faculty of Engineering BA (Hons) International Business, Life Sciences Meghana Bhide Finance and EconomicsManchester and Physical Sciences William Joyce BA (Economic and Social Studies) Business School Calum Wiggins BSc (Hons) Zoology with (Hons) MEng (Hons) Chemical Engineering Industrial/Professional Experience School of Social Sciences Matthew Illife with Industrial Experience BA (Hons) Architecture School of Chemical Engineering and Abigail Cowley Gek Teng Khoo School of Environment, Education Analytical Science BSc (Hons) Biochemistry with Bachelor of Economic Science (Hons) and Development Industrial/Professional Experience School of Social Sciences