RSE New Fellows Induction Programme 2018
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Scotland’s National Academy New Fellows 2018 Induction Day 14 May 2018 NEW FELLOWS’ INDUCTION MONDAY 14 MAY 2018 PROGRAMME 12.15–12.30 pm Arrive – Wolfson Lecture Theatre 12.30 pm President’s Welcome Professor Dame Anne Glover 12.40 pm Presentation about the Society Dr Alison Elliot, General Secretary 12.50 pm Depart – Wolfson Lecture Theatre for Wellcome West 1 pm Lunch – Wellcome West with members of RSE Council and Executive Committee and Staff of the RSE 2 pm Q & A session – The RSE and what it is to be a Fellow with Professor John Connell, Fellowship Secretary 2.30 pm The RSE Young Academy of Scotland Presentation by Professor Nasar Meer, RSE Young Academy of Scotland 2.45 pm Concluding Remarks Professor Dame Anne Glover 2.50 pm Break 3 pm Room Tours and meet the Staff of the RSE Staff and Exhibition Stands – Wellcome East Room Tours – two times, departing from Reception (New Fellows will be told which tour group they are in and when to gather for their tour) 4.45 pm Fellows’ Guests arrive 5 pm Admission Ceremony – Wolfson Lecture Theatre Formal Admission: Reading of Citations for Honorary and Corresponding Fellows Signing the Roll Book and Presentation of Certificates Professor Dame Anne Glover, President Professor John Connell, Fellowship Secretary 5.45 pm Drinks Reception –Wellcome Rooms 8 pm Close I’m delighted to welcome you to this, my first New Fellows’ Induction Day as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. It’s a real pleasure to welcome this year’s new Fellows to the RSE, to introduce them to the work of the RSE and the ways they can get involved with this work. The RSE continues to strengthen its Fellowship by appointing leading professionals from within the arts, business and public sector, as well as those working at the highest levels of research. International work is also key to the RSE and, demonstrating this, we have several notable individuals joining the RSE as Corresponding Fellows. We are committed to diversifying the Fellowship of the RSE, and with that in mind I am very pleased to see that 41% of our new Fellows are female. I am also pleased to welcome six current and former Young Academy of Scotland (YAS) members into the Fellowship this year, which brings the total number of former or current YAS members in the Fellowship to 12. It’s wonderful to Professor Dame Anne Glover see this bright young talent joining the Fellowship. DBE FRS By working with the RSE, Fellows have the opportunity to make a difference to Scotland, through providing independent and expert advice to Government, engaging in debate and communicating with the public, and supporting future leaders through mentoring of YAS members and Enterprise Fellows. I look forward to working with the new Fellows in the coming years. 4 HONORARY FELLOWS BROWN, The Rt Hon Gordon Office of Gordon and Sarah Brown Gordon Brown served as Prime Minister of the UK 2007–2010, as Chancellor of the Exchequer 1997–2007 and as a Member of Parliament in his home county of Fife, Scotland, 1983–2015. He is the United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and is a passionate advocate for the rights of children. He believes every girl and boy deserves the opportunity of a future through schooling. Gordon is Chair of the High Level Steering Group for the Education Cannot Wait fund for education in emergencies, and of the Inquiry on Protecting Children in Conflict and also serves as Chair of the International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity. He is the author of several books, including Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation and My Scotland, Our Britain. In November 2017, he published his memoirs My Life, Our Times. COLBURN GRIGOR, Carol CBE Trustee, Dunard Fund Raised and educated in the United States, Carol Colburn received her Bachelor of Music cum laude from Indiana University School of Music, and her Masters of Musical Arts in piano performance from Yale University School of Music. She has recorded works of R Strauss, Berg, Eisler and Casadesus and has concertised extensively in Europe and the States. Carol is a Director of Dunard Ltd and of family-owned businesses internationally. As a philanthropist, she founded and is Director of Dunard Fund UK, which benefits visual arts and classical music, most notably the Edinburgh International Festival, of which she is Honorary Vice- President. Other honours include Honorary CBE, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministry of Culture, France, and the Prince of Wales Medal for Arts Philanthropy. She serves on the Board of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Music from Marlboro, Board of Visitors for the Yale School of Music, Colburn Foundation, and Colburn School of Performing Arts. KANDEL, Eric University Professor, Columbia University Research in Professor Kandel’s laboratory is focused on the molecular biology of learning and memory and spans several levels of analysis. Using behavioural, cellular, and molecular approaches, the team tries to delineate the changes that underlie simple forms of learning and memory. His lab helped pioneer the use of genetically modified mice to examine the mechanisms of long-term potentiation in the mammalian hippocampus and its relation to spatial memory. Recently, the lab have focused its efforts on specific risk factors for psychiatric disease and age-related memory loss in mice, and observing the molecular mechanisms underlying the behavioural deficits. In the course of this work, they identified the existence of functional prions in the brains of Aplysia (sea slugs) and mice that are critical for the maintenance of long-term memory. WEIR,Judith CBE Composer, Master of the Queen’s Music Judith Weir has written for a wide range of musical genres, including opera, theatre, film, orchestra, choral music and song. Her work has been seen and heard on many major stages, including Covent Garden, Santa Fe and Bregenz. Amongst her longstanding interests is the relationship between music, text and language. As the current holder of the 400-year-old Royal Appointment as Master of The Queen’s Music, her chosen aims are to champion the work of music teachers, to advocate the importance of music in schools, and to encourage music outside the professional sphere. She herself has taught at Glasgow and Cardiff Universities; and as a visiting teacher, most recently at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. 5 Photograph by Benjamin Ealovega CORRESPONDING FELLOWS BIRKS, Hilary Professor Emerita in Quaternary Palaeoecology and Palaeoclimate Research, University of Bergen Professor Hilary Birks obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge and undertook post-doctoral research in both Cambridge and the University of Minnesota, USA. Her research focuses on reconstructing vegetation, environment and climate over the past 15,000 years, using macroscopic plant remains and pollen preserved in lake sediments. She worked extensively in Scotland before moving to Bergen, Norway, in 1985, where she was appointed to a personal Chair in 2001. She has made major contributions to knowledge about the development of Norwegian ecosystems and climate since the end of the last glacial period. She is a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and received a lifetime achievement award from the International Paleolimnological Society. DALRYMPLE, William Writer and Historian William Dalrymple is a bestselling author of In Xanadu, City of Djinns, From the Holy Mountain, White Mughals, The Last Mughal, Nine Lives, and most recently, Return of a King: An Indian Army in Afghanistan. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the French Prix d’Astrolabe, the Wolfson Prize for History, the Scottish Book of the Year Award, the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Asia House Award for Asian Literature, the Vodafone/Crossword Award for nonfiction, and has, prior to the shortlisting of Return of a King, been longlisted three times for the Samuel Johnson Prize. The Italian edition of Return of a King won the 2015 Hemingway Prize and the prestigious Kapuściński Prize for Literary Reportage. His latest book is Kohinoor, co-written with Anita Anand. Dalrymple is one of the founders and a co-director of the ZEE Jaipur Literature Festival. FEDOSOV, Dmitry Senior Research Fellow, Institute of General History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Dr Fedosov’s field of research is the history of Scotland and Russia, and links between the two countries from the Middle Ages to the present. He edited the monumental Diary of General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries (1635–1699), principal advisor to Tsar Peter the Great, both in original English and Russian translation. His current project is the biographical survey Lion Rampant to Double Eagle: Scots in Russia 1500–1725. He is co-founder and Chairman of the Moscow Caledonian Club, established in 1994. FRAZER, Ian Head, Cancer Immunotherapy Program, University of Queensland; Board Chair, TRI Foundation Ian Frazer is a clinician scientist, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh now working in Australia. His major research interest is in the immunology of cancer and, specifically, in developing immunotherapies for the 20% of cancers initiated by virus infection. He is currently working on HPV- associated oropharyngeal cancer, and on skin cancer. He is particularly interested in how proliferating skin cells regulate the local immune environment, enabling cancers to evade the naturally-occurring antiviral responses that would otherwise control them. 6 CORRESPONDING FELLOWS GORDON, Douglas Artist Douglas Gordon is one of the most highly regarded Scottish contemporary artists working today. His work is diverse, spanning video and film, sound, site-specific installations and printed media.