01 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Our Mission

The University’s mission is the advancement and dissemination of knowledge and understanding. As a leading international centre of academic excellence, the University has as its core mission:

• to sustain and develop its position as a research and teaching institution of the highest international quality and to benchmark its performance against world-class standards;

• to provide an outstanding educational environment, supporting study across a broad range of academic disciplines and serving the major professions;

• to produce graduates equipped for high personal and professional achievement; and

• to contribute to society, promoting health, economic and cultural wellbeing.

As a great civic university, Edinburgh especially values its intellectual and economic relationship with the Scottish community that forms its base and provides the foundation from which it will continue to look to the widest international horizons, enriching both itself and Scotland.

59603_EdUni_AR2006 1 11/1/07 08:14:20 “ At the heart of all that we achieve are our students and staff, and our alumni and friends, and I must thank the entire University community most warmly for the great achievements of the last year.”

59603_EdUni_AR2006 2 11/1/07 08:14:20 03 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Principal’s Foreword

Each year the Annual Review presents us with the of these categories. It is these solid foundations opportunity to capture as best we can a fl avour which form the basis for the confi dent, forward- of the life of the University over the previous year. thinking and progressive nature of the institution The fact that this is such a challenge is a measure today. Nowhere is this better evidenced than of the breadth of activities at the University, as well the way in which we have embraced technology as the energy and talent of its staff and students. in the use of e-Learning to support student education, particularly in the College of Medicine The University has again enjoyed success in many and Veterinary Medicine though the development areas over this past year, working in partnership of impressive Virtual Learning Environments with a range of individuals and organisations (page 22). Within the University we are also under- to build on the strength of our research and taking strategic research and taking local action teaching, and develop in a way which benefi ts to combat one of the great challenges of our time, both the University itself and the wider world. that of global warming (page 26). I am sure that the University community will embrace the ‘Switch New links have been forged locally, nationally and and Save’ campaign with typical enthusiasm so internationally. The initiative led by the School of that our Annual Review in four years’ time will Mathematics last spring to help local sixth-year report success in meeting our ambitious target. students with their exam revision is a great example of positive joint working on a local level I must also mention one of the highlights of last (page 18). On an international level, we were year, the launch of our new fundraising campaign delighted to have been chosen by the Chinese (page 16). The University of Edinburgh Campaign Ministry of Education to be the home of the fi rst was launched last October on a most memorable Confucius Institute in Scotland, a resource which evening in the heart of the Old College quadrangle. we hope will be of benefi t to Scotland as a whole Our aims for the Campaign are closely aligned (page 4). The year also saw the launch of our to our vision and our hopes for the future of the Enlightenment Lecture Series (page 24), which has University, and the projects that it will support proved extremely popular with both the University will be key to ensuring that we can continue to community and the local community alike and has compete at the highest possible level with the afforded us the privilege of welcoming some of the highest quality staff and students, and the best world’s most infl uential fi gures to Edinburgh. possible facilities for them to use.

In the Annual Review of two years ago, I highlighted I do hope that this Review achieves its objective the relevance and the innovative nature of our of giving you a fl avour of what the University has research portfolio. The University’s reputation for been about over the past year and that you will infl uential research is now even stronger. This enjoy reading it. I am grateful to everyone who year’s Review highlights some of the exciting has contributed to the University’s wonderful work research colleagues are carrying out into various over the past year, only a few aspects of which aspects of mental health, the results of which have can ever be highlighted in a publication of this the potential to benefi t all of us. This includes the length. At the heart of all that we achieve are our fascinating work of Professor Deary and his team students and staff, and our alumni and friends, into the effects of ageing on the brain (page 10), and I must thank the entire University community and the increasingly important research by most warmly for the great achievements of Professor Porteous and his colleagues into the last year. schizophrenia and manic depression (page 14).

The University takes great pride in its history and its tradition of excellence in research and teaching, and indeed in other areas which fall into neither Professor Timothy O’Shea BSc, PhD, FRSE

59603_EdUni_AR2006 3 11/1/07 08:14:20 04 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Shaping the Future of Scottish-Chinese Links

In Beijing last March, Scotland’s First Minister, Jack moment. Crucial to this is our reputation in the In cooperation with the Scottish-China Education McConnell, and the Chinese Minister of Education, areas of research, scholarship and education, Network, the Institute is developing programmes Zhou Ji, jointly announced the establishment of the where the Chinese seek our engagement. In this, for training teachers of Chinese. It will also provide Confucius Institute for Scotland, highlighting the we are helping to spearhead an enterprise which support for those teaching Chinese in Scotland major role the University of Edinburgh is playing should benefi t many in Scotland concerned to while putting on programmes of Chinese language in opening up Scottish links with China. engage with China. for the general public.

The Confucius Institute for Scotland, based “As a research-intensive global institution, we This year the Institute, with the collaboration of in the University of Edinburgh, has been set up are not an unknown quantity. Chinese institutions Dr Dorota Ostrowska of Film Studies, has organised with support from the Scottish Executive and with have approached us because they know us the fi rst major festival of Chinese fi lm in the UK, the prestigious Fudan University in Shanghai and through our historic links with China and through with outreach activities for schools. It will coincide Tsinghua University in Beijing, two of China’s our international reputation.” with an exhibition of Scottish silverware going to foremost universities, as its principal Chinese China and an exhibition of Chinese modern art partner universities. Productive collaboration between the University (curated by the Chinese Academy of Fine Arts) of Edinburgh and China stretches back at least a coming to Edinburgh this autumn. Its main objectives are: to promote and deliver century and a half. The fi rst Chinese graduate, the teaching of Chinese language in Scotland; to Huang Kuan, took his MD at Edinburgh in 1855. “The Confucius Institute is for Scotland, not promote academic study and public awareness of Since then, outstanding Chinese alumni of the just for the University,” says Professor Boulton. Chinese culture; to act as an intermediary between University have included: the late Professor Huang “China thinks its culture has been marginalised Scotland and Scottish institutions and China in Kun, who worked with Max Born, the Edinburgh internationally and they want it recognised.” linguistic, educational, cultural and business Nobel prize-winner in Physics, and who received the fi elds; and to provide educational and research 2001 Supreme Scientifi c and Technological Award Importantly, China also wants to be seen as activities to support Scottish-Chinese links. from President Jiang Zemin for his pioneering work a force for peace, for change and for good. in solid state physics; Professor Yang Liming, a The Ministry of Education in China intends to major fi gure in nuclear physics in China; and “China is a society in transition which should not open around 100 Confucius Institutes across Professor Zhong Nanshan, who identifi ed the SARS be shunned but engaged with,” Professor Boulton the globe by 2010, and they are keen to use the virus, and who will receive an honorary degree from continues. “This is most likely to have a ‘liberalising’ highest-ranking universities. Edinburgh is one the University of Edinburgh in Beijing in 2007. effect. Shouting about Tibet will not bring change. of only three universities in the UK, and the only If you want a man to take his coat off, you let the sun one in Scotland, to host a Confucius Institute. In association with appropriate Colleges and shine on him rather than have the wind blow cold Schools within the University and those in other over him. Engagement produces collaborative and “We have deep institutional and educational Scottish universities, the Institute will promote human contact.” links with China, and the Chinese government scholarships relating to China, develop senior recognise that the links with universities such visiting fellow programmes and support specifi c Last year the University and the China Scholarship as Edinburgh are crucial to the development of programmes of research, as well as other Council established 20 new PhD scholarships the high-class research and education that are academic activities such as lecture series, at Edinburgh, while Peking University and needed by their growing knowledge economy,” workshops and conferences. Edinburgh agreed that they each would supply says University Vice-Principal Professor Geoffrey three full-fee scholarships, marking an important Boulton, who is in charge of developing the “The Institute will promote and deliver the teaching collaboration between the two universities in University’s links with China. of Chinese to citizens, business persons and research and teaching. students at appropriate levels,” says Professor “China is currently a low-wage economy which Natascha Gentz, Chair of Chinese at the University Beijing Film Academy has sent four members of must develop within the next ten years, and that of Edinburgh and Director of the Confucius Institute. staff and students to Edinburgh to undertake MSc means a need for research and education. “It will also serve as a consulting and linkage centre courses in various subjects in the last two years, between the Scottish business community and their while a recent documentary about Chinese “We can, because of long-standing and counterparts in China, and as a provider of language students at the University of Edinburgh is being developing links, knock on doors that many and acculturation programmes for Scottish shown throughout China this year on China Scottish institutions and businesses can’t at the entrepreneurs to support their work in China.” Central Television.

The University’s – and possibly printed book in the Library. In 1892 Europe’s – fi rst Chinese graduate Dr Dugald Christie LRCP LRCS, who was Dr Wong Fun (Huang Kuan) who studied medicine at the University in graduated MD in 1855. However, the late 1870s, established a hospital the University had acquired its in Mukden (Shenyang) in 1883; it fi rst Chinese book in 1628. Robert was formally constituted in 1892 as Ramsay (later to graduate MA in the Mukden Medical School and 1645) presented a fi ne copy of the is now part of the National Medical Commentary on Zhou Yi (Yi Jing) by University of China. Hu Guang, printed from wood blocks in 1440 and probably still the oldest

Professor Geoffrey Yi Jing Book of Changes Boulton

59603_EdUni_AR2006 4 11/1/07 08:14:25 Professor Natascha Gentz heads the new Confucius Institute for Scotland, which will help establish business and education links between Scotland and China

59603_EdUni_AR2006 5 11/1/07 08:14:34 06 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Shaping the Future of Scottish-Chinese Links, continued

Crucial to these developments is the International number likely to double at least in the next ten years, Liaison Offi ce (UEILO), which the University especially as Edinburgh is now associated with the opened in Beijing in 2005 to enhance its profi le best HEIs in China and is seen as being among the and reputation with top-ranking Chinese best internationally by Chinese students. universities, to develop research and educational links with these universities and institutes, such Director of the International Offi ce, Alan Mackay, as the China Academy of Science, the China says: “China will lead future global demand for Academy of Social Sciences, the Natural Science an overseas education in the next 15 years. The Foundation and the China Scholarship Council, high number of Chinese students currently at the and to support recruitment. University highlights our strong reputation in China and the major increases in recent years of Chinese Through the UEILO, led by Dr Nini Yang, the students studying abroad. The number of Chinese University is developing links with a number of other students studying abroad is expected to reach leading universities, including Tsinghua, Peking, 200,000 in 2010. The Chinese Vice Minister for Fudan, Nankai and Beihang, to continue to develop Education has indicated that in 2020 the number of new and established research-based links, to seek Chinese students overseas would reach 300,000. possible articulation arrangements such as joint degrees, joint PhD programmes and research “However, for many Chinese students the value of projects and to use these universities as bases studying overseas is not just the qualifi cation but for postgraduate and undergraduate recruitment. also the experience of living and studying abroad. At the University of Edinburgh there is a very active “Corporate globalisation of the University began Chinese Students and Scholars Association and in earnest in the 1990s,” says Professor Boulton. many cultural events are held across the “That has meant developing links with international academic year. In our increasingly interdependent bodies and overseas Higher Education Institutions world there is real educational value in having (HEIs) and being more receptive to the needs of Chinese students at our University as they make international students and to the distinctive a valuable contribution to our academic social life benefi ts their different perspectives will bring. and establish important connections with our staff and students for the future.” “We want ‘broad-band’ relations with other countries like China, with institutions and in regions Chinese culture is highly developed, and of the world which are developing dynamically and understanding the cultural base people work from have specifi c needs we are able to address. A is crucial. “In Chinese culture you have to develop broad-band relationship means not only attracting confi dence in each other – a confi dence which Chinese students but also developing many other produces a sense of mutual commitment and forms of collaboration, so that we are seen as a respect to build up a professional relationship and robust and reliable partner. business relationships,” says Professor Boulton. “The Chinese recognise the benefi ts we can bring “We have concentrated on links with prestigious as well as the benefi ts we can gain. It’s about universities in China and we have tried to create enhancing our reputation for unreserved scholarships to attract their very best students commitment to excellence. and to create cutting-edge joint programmes, especially at postgraduate level, such as planned “We have to recognise that if international links are Masters degrees in Advanced Computing, and going to be strong they must be of mutual benefi t. in Informatics.” We have as much to gain from such links as the Chinese do. We have to respond to each other’s There are at present over 500 Chinese postgraduate priorities. It’s about partnership.” and undergraduate students at the University, a

The Sino-Scottish Society was the athlete Eric Liddell, who died in founded in Edinburgh in 1929, and in China in an internment camp in 1945. 1930 it was claimed that there were The Department of Chinese was more Chinese students studying for established in 1965 under Dr John different professions at the University Chinnery, together with the University than at any other individual college Library’s East Asian Collection. The in the UK. More recently, two of the Chair of Chinese was established University’s famous links with China in 1991 with the appointment of were the diplomat and scholar Sir Professor Bonnie McDougall. Reginald Johnston, tutor to Puyi, Professor Natascha Gentz is the the Last Emperor of China, and University’s current Chair of Chinese.

Plaque to Dr Wong Fun Professor Bonnie (Huang Kuan) McDougall

59603_EdUni_AR2006 6 11/1/07 08:14:41 Chinese students at the University have Left to right: students the opportunity to learn alongside students HouChao Li, Li Ding and Dai Wang from more than 130 countries worldwide

59603_EdUni_AR2006 7 11/1/07 08:14:52 08 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Going for Gold: Edinburgh’s Sporting Talent

These are exciting times for sport in the UK. swimming), Tim Mundon (World Student Games current international players. The archery team also With London announced as the host of the 2012 medallist in archery) and Shirley Webb (Olympic includes internationalists and possible future Olympic Olympics and Glasgow making a serious bid to hammer thrower). They were all benefi ciaries of stars, while the women’s lacrosse team is a perennial host the 2014 Commonwealth Games, there is an the University’s sports bursary programme, a winner of the British Universities championship. even greater incentive to fi nd new sporting talent scheme set up by the CSE in association with close to home. Edward Nicholas, the new President EUSU to benefi t students with proven excellence Aside from team competitions, around 2,000 of Edinburgh University Sports Union (EUSU), in their sporting fi eld. students regularly take part in the University’s is aiming high: “The University is already attracting intramural leagues, which include no fewer than a number of hugely talented young sports people, The University of Edinburgh offers three bursary 56 football and 12 rugby sides. They offer the many of whom have their sights fi rmly set on programmes – for individual sports performers, chance to compete in a more relaxed atmosphere, competing at the upcoming Olympics and Games.” teams and elite-level golfers – to support the and offer further proof that sport at the University needs of leading student athletes. These of Edinburgh is available to everyone. The University of Edinburgh has long been programmes allow the recipients to combine their recognised as Scotland’s leading sporting sporting and academic aspirations by providing “Whatever your sport and whatever level you want to university. With one of the largest and best- tailored support, including cash awards, sports compete at, there’s a club or team for you. And it’s developed multi-sport programmes in Scotland, medicine care from the CSE’s nationally renowned not just about competing; it’s about meeting and it was placed fi fth overall in the British Universities Fitness Assessment and Sports Injuries Centre making friends, about enjoyment and recreation,” Sports Association’s (BUSA) rankings in 2005/06, and expert advice on training. says Edward Nicholas, who himself was fi rst while the 2007 Times Good University Guide gives attracted to study at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh a fi ve-star rating for its sport and The hope is that the University’s current sports bursars because of its sporting reputation and provision. exercise provision. The University is now aiming can match the successes of alumni such as Hoy and to build on this reputation. Grainger. Twenty-two students are recipients of sports “My sports are orienteering and climbing. While bursaries. They include Alan Clyne, a Physical still at school I met members of the University’s “We are achieving all-round sporting excellence, Education student and Scottish Universities Squash climbing club at Chamonix. They were among the and to move up to fourth place in the BUSA Champion and Shanthy Sooriasegaram, an English best, and I found them friendly and encouraging. rankings should be achievable within a year. Literature student and Tae Kwon Do UK gold and That clinched my coming to Edinburgh, and when Our ultimate goal, however, should be to become European bronze medallist. I arrived here I already felt part of the University.” the best academic sporting institution in the UK,” says Mr Nicholas. Alan Clyne is clear about the benefi ts the bursary “The University’s sporting tradition has never has offered him: “It has allowed me to get the best been about elitism, even though it has always Jim Aitken, Director of the Centre for Sports and squash equipment available – the best is expensive pursued excellence,” explains Jim Aitken. Exercise (CSE), outlines why this is possible: “The and diffi cult to afford without sponsorship – and “Our primary aim is to promote the health and University’s growing and enviable reputation in I get priority use of courts before my morning wellbeing of students and staff, as well as that sport and exercise is founded on the provision of lectures, which is a huge advantage.” of the local community, who can make use of the state-of-the-art facilities and cutting-edge advice facilities at low cost. With 11,300 members, the and support services. The CSE has a commitment Shanthy Sooriasegaram intends to live and work CSE is the biggest ‘meet and mix’ social facility to open and affordable access for all and to in Edinburgh after she graduates so that she in the University, as well as one of the largest establishing productive in-house partnerships can continue to make use of the CSE: “I can’t leisure providers in the country. It promotes between academic, student and service agencies overestimate the importance of the individual self-development, team-building and leadership with an interest in sport. In a competitive training programme that was devised for me qualities and skills – all important tools that marketplace, it is this commitment that allows at the CSE, which, of course, also has superb can be applied in people’s wider lives – and Edinburgh to attract people with outstanding facilities,” she says. These include a 100-station in doing so it lies at the heart of what is a great sporting abilities and potential.” cardiovascular and 35-station Nautilus gym. and growing academic sporting institution.”

Recent sporting success stories to have emerged The breadth of talent within the University’s Edward Nicholas agrees: “When I meet with from the University of Edinburgh include Chris Hoy sporting community is impressive, and it is not alumni it’s not always their academic subjects (Olympic gold and silver in track cycling), confi ned to those on the bursary programme. In or their classes that they want to talk about: Katherine Grainger (Olympic silver in rowing), terms of team competitions, both the men’s and it’s more often their sporting days, their sporting Mike Hart (Commonwealth gold in power lifting), women’s fi rst hockey teams are competing in the experiences, which they recall with some relish. Ian Edmund (World Championship silver in premier league of hockey in Scotland, and both boast Sport is at the heart of the University.”

The University Athletic Club was highest pinnacles are still the famous founded in 1866 under its (Honorary) achievements of Eric Liddell at the President Lord Neaves. The 1924 Olympic Games and the British Women’s Athletic Club, founded Empire and United States Games in 1900, had been anticipated shortly afterwards. 2004 Olympic during the middle 1890s by the Gold medallist Chris Hoy and 2000 formation of a Women’s Cycling Olympic Silver medallist Katherine Club and the Hockey Club of the Grainger join him in the Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women. University Hall of Fame. Excellence in sport has always been the University’s goal, but its

Chris Hoy Eric Liddell’s statue in Old College

59603_EdUni_AR2006 8 11/1/07 08:15:00 The University of Edinburgh football team Michael Hazeldine (in University green), achieve a historic win against Keith FC striker and fi rst year medical student in the Scottish Cup

59603_EdUni_AR2006 9 11/1/07 08:15:07 10 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 The Age of Cognition

When William Wordsworth wrote that “The child mental test data for almost an entire birth cohort. Part of the team’s focus is now on health is father to the man” he was not to know that What is more, they repeated the exercise in 1947, behaviours, health messages and health literacy whether you live to a ripe old age actually testing almost all people born in 1936. Retracing in general and their relation to IQ. For instance, depends in part on your childhood mental ability. and retesting some of these people has allowed is healthy eating related to IQ? But pioneering research led by Professor Ian the team, uniquely anywhere in the world, to study Deary, Professor of Differential Psychology at the cognitive changes between age 11 and old age. “Our research has indisputably put on the University of Edinburgh, has perhaps given added map that your IQ at the age of 11 is associated meaning to the poet’s famous line by establishing The team found a sizeable association between with how long you live,” says Professor Deary. that a person’s IQ at the age of 11 is associated scores on the psychometric intelligence tests (IQ) “It affects whether you get cardiovascular disease with how long they live. at age 11 and survival to age 76. They discovered (the biggest cause of death), high blood pressure that intelligence was reasonably stable over 70 and ‘all cause mortality’. Our aim now is to try A Fellow of the British Academy, Professor Deary years and that factors affecting ageing were many to fi nd out why this association occurs. holds a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit and varied, ranging from the genetic to the social. Award (2003–2007) for his work on human “Many research teams around the world have cognitive ageing, for which he also received the “We discovered that a variant of the gene replicated this association between early life IQ and fi rst of the annual Chancellor’s Awards of the Apolipoprotein E, known to dispose people towards survival and it’s not just explained by social class,” University in 2003. With his colleague, Professor dementia, does have a slight negative effect at the says Professor Deary, whose pioneering work has Lawrence Whalley, Professor of Mental Health at age of 80, though not at the age of 11 if you have it. had to convince not a few sceptical critics. the University of Aberdeen, he helped to establish So there is a genetic effect, but only in old age. the fi eld of what is now called cognitive “Presenting IQ scores as health- and death-relevant epidemiology, the study of how mental ability “We’re also discovering that people who had more predictor variables to epidemiologists, the majority infl uences morbidity (illness) and mortality, white matter lesions in the brain tended to do less of whom seem initially to have a bent toward social- in an article in the British Medical Journal in 2001. well in old age tests and we are doing more research environmental causes of the associations, has on this biological mechanism. Hypertension (high been an interesting experience; rather like parading Professors Deary and Whalley also study cognitive blood pressure) also seems to be a risk factor for a clever but noisily disobedient and mucky child ageing across the lifecourse. “By discovering what more white matter lesions. Fifteen years ago no one before staid and suspicious relatives,” he adds. helps to retain memory and thinking skills in old knew about the effects of this gene, or the meaning age it might be possible to prevent some of the of these lesions,” says Professor Deary. That said, however, many of these critics are now age-associated cognitive decrements. In other convinced collaborators and co-investigators on words, determining the causes of cognitive The research found people who didn’t smoke this groundbreaking research project. decline could lead to preventative treatments, had better intelligence in old age and that bodily bringing us a step closer to a society in which fi tness goes with better cognition in old age. In short, IQ is a new player in health equalities older generations can live dignifi ed and active Social factors also play a role. People with more in the new fi eld of cognitive epidemiology, and lives in their later years,” says Professor Deary. years of education and with more professional in lifecourse cognitive ageing. The University jobs tend to do slightly better. Intellectual of Edinburgh, in conjunction with its partners, “It’s important to keep cognitive skills to maintain engagement, therefore, might be said to keep is playing a major role in its development. your independence as you grow older, but how do the brain more healthy. An individual can build you measure someone’s cognitive abilities unless up cognitive reserves to call on in later life. Some you know where they started?” other research shows that social engagement also seems to help cognitive ability. In addressing this crucial question, in 1997 Professor Deary and his colleague discovered that Researchers are now looking further at health there existed a vast wealth of unique data held by behaviours. For people born in 1921, for example, the Scottish Council for Research in Education. growing into adulthood at a time when there On 1 June 1932, practically every child attending weren’t health warnings about smoking, there school in Scotland and born in 1921 took the was no correlation between those who started same mental test with the same time limit after to smoke and their IQ, but there was between hearing the same instructions. Thus Scotland was those who gave it up in later life. – and remains – the only nation in the world with

James Drever primus, the fi rst when he moved to the University Professor of Psychology at a of Dundee as Principal and Scottish university and a former Vice-Chancellor. Following in the schoolteacher, joined the University promotional tradition, Ian Deary has in 1906 as Assistant to the Professor occupied the Chair of Differential of Education. He became Combe Psychology since 1995, having Lecturer in Psychology in 1919, joined the University as a lecturer and fi rst holder of the Chair from in Psychology in 1985. 1931 to 1945 when his son followed him. James Drever secundus was Professor from 1944 to 1967,

Professor Ian Deary Professor James Drever primus

59603_EdUni_AR2006 10 11/1/07 08:15:10 Professor Ian Deary’s research could “bring us a step closer to a society in which older generations can live dignifi ed and active lives in their later years”

59603_EdUni_AR2006 11 11/1/07 08:15:18 12 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Equality, Diversity and Alchemy

The University of Edinburgh is going for gold in departments, but in looking to encourage women “Working closely with the student leadership I hope the promotion of equality and diversity among to apply you are looking for the best and do not to identify ideas for developing around all issues students and staff – which is as it should be at want to appoint someone simply because of concerned with creating a community that has an one of the friendliest universities in the UK. gender,” she says. openness on areas including culture, race, disability and gender; to open up access to all students so In the past year the University has gained two The SWAN awards, which are retained over there are no artifi cially imposed barriers. prestigious awards in a nationwide initiative that three years, are part of the Royal Society Athena seeks to support women involved in science, Project, which seeks to promote the careers of “Equality and diversity should start from the moment engineering and technology, and it has created women in science, engineering and technology a student makes an enquiry and be effective right the new post of Vice-Principal for Equality and in higher education and research, and to achieve through until that student is a graduate.” Diversity, one of the fi rst of its kind in the UK. a signifi cant increase in the number of women in top posts. With a background in child welfare and social work, In March, the School of Chemistry became the Professor Waterhouse believes her experience in fi rst subject-specifi c department in the UK to Professor Yellowlees, who became Head of these areas will be of immense value. receive a Silver SWAN (Scientifi c Women’s School in August 2005, now wants to go for gold. Academic Network) award in recognition of its “Extensive experience in the National Health commitment to two key areas of SWAN’s work: “I’m a chemist, not an alchemist, but I do want Service, which is a service for all, was a powerful introducing practices which encourage a good to turn silver into gold this year – we’re not starting part of my education, dealing with families from all life-work balance and fostering policies which with lead, after all – and we want to encourage backgrounds who received exactly the same encourage success among women involved other schools in science and engineering to put treatment. This complete even-handedness in the in science. in for the Athena awards as well,” she says. way all were treated will certainly inform my work in my new post,” she says. The University as a whole received a Bronze In May last year the University decided to revitalise award for helping to raise the staff profi le of its race equality and women’s staff networks and Last year the University was also named the women involved in science, engineering and will this year move towards a single equality friendliest in Scotland and ranked eighth in technology; providing positive support for women, scheme across all areas of the University, refl ecting the UK overall, in a comprehensive study of data particularly at key career transition points; and the government’s new single equality body, the collected by the reunion website Friends Reunited, infl uencing the gender balance in the decision- Commission for Equality and Human Rights while it was also rated highly by international making process. (CEHR), which will come into being in October. students for reputation, friendliness and teaching quality, according to the results of the Student Professor Lesley Yellowlees, Head of the School of “We’ll be one of the fi rst UK universities to do this,” Barometer Project. Chemistry, says the Silver award was a vindication says Ian Bettison, the University’s Equality and of the School’s work over a number of years: “We Diversity Manager, “and with the establishment of “As an international organisation, our staff and changed the way the School of Chemistry was the post of Vice-Principal for Equality and Diversity, student communities need to refl ect that outward managed, making it very structured with regular this puts the University at the leading edge.” focus,” says Ian Bettison, “enabling us to benefi t staff appraisals and making it easier for female from the widest possible cultural diversity with all staff with children to do their work part-time. In August 2006 Professor Lorraine Waterhouse the skills and talents that this brings. Our job is to was appointed to this new post, which she took ensure all staff and students can develop to their “If you help everyone to do better you’ll help up in early 2007. Her role is to help develop policy full potential and to support the University as a female staff. It’s a holistic approach. I don’t want as part of a cross-University team, addressing the world-class higher education institution.” to favour or disfavour anyone. That’s why you whole population of the University, both staff and need to aim for improvement in general and not students, to develop best practice and to try to positive discrimination. Positive discrimination evaluate progress. means the playing fi eld is not level. You need to make the working environment good, fair and “I want to stimulate thinking about equality pleasant to attract people to give their best to and diversity, to try to identify issues that are the School and be a good team player. important to students and staff, and to focus on practical action informed by international “The University of Edinburgh School of Chemistry practice,” she says. has more women academic staff than most UK

Sophia Jex-Blake was pre-eminent hers. Women could gain Certifi cates in the admittance of women to the in Arts as early as 1874, but were University. One of the fi rst female not allowed to graduate until 1892. students offi cially admitted to classes The fi rst woman to gain an honorary in the University, Edith Pechey (later degree from the University was Mrs Pechey-Phipson) achieved the Eleanor Anne Ormerod (LLD 1900) highest marks in the Chemistry class and the fi rst to hold a Chair was of her year, 1869. Because she was Elizabeth Wiskemann, Montague a woman, however, she was denied Burton Professor of International the class prize and the coveted Hope Relations in 1958. Scholarship which should have been

Professor Lorraine Plaque to Waterhouse Sophia Jex-Blake

59603_EdUni_AR2006 12 11/1/07 08:15:23 The University’s School of Chemistry is the Clockwise, from bottom left: Prof Lesley fi rst subject-specifi c department to receive Yellowlees, Head of Chemistry; Dr Perdita a Silver SWAN award in recognition of its E Barran; Dr Alison N Hulme; Dr Bridgette achievements in encouraging success Duncombe; Dr Sarah L Hinchley; Dr Anita among women involved in science C Jones; and Dr Carole A Morrison

59603_EdUni_AR2006 13 11/1/07 08:15:37 14 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Breakthroughs in Medical Research

Two research projects underline the University One in 50 individuals are affected by either of and the activity of PDE4B as a promising new of Edinburgh’s leading role in international these two conditions at some stage during their approach to treatment, which it is hoped will lead medical research. life. The World Health Organisation ranks to the development of new drugs. schizophrenia ninth and bipolar disorder sixth A breakthrough in understanding the biological in its estimates for disease-related lifetime Another team of medical experts at the University basis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder (also disabilities. Studies have also demonstrated the has made a major breakthrough in developing referred to as manic depressive illness) by a high heritability of both conditions. a contraceptive pill that they hope may provide team of scientists at the University of Edinburgh, protection against breast cancer and help in led by Professor David Porteous, was given “There is good evidence to show that in families the treatment of fi broids, endometriosis and a Medical Research Council grant award with schizophrenia, members are also likely to premenstrual tension. The work is the culmination of £1.1 million last summer. have bipolar disorder more than can be expected of a ten-year programme of research by the to occur by chance. The shared link from DISC 1 Contraceptive Development Network, based In 2000, researchers at the University identifi ed to PDE4B is one possible explanation,” says at the Centre for Reproductive Biology in the a gene they called Disrupted in Schizophrenia 1 Professor Porteous, who provides expert advice University of Edinburgh. (DISC 1), which was found to increase the on genetics to the European Union, the UK chances of people developing schizophrenia, government, the Medical Research Council, the Although work is still at an early stage Professor bipolar disorder and major clinical depression. Department of Health and the Wellcome Trust. David Baird, Emeritus Professor of Reproductive Endocrinology and lead researcher on the project, In November 2005, scientists from the Universities The work undertaken by Professor Porteous’s is hopeful the new pill could be available within of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and from the team at the University, and other work done fi ve years. pharmaceutical company Merck, Sharp & Dome, worldwide, shows a signifi cant risk associated reported the discovery of a second gene, with heritable functions, of which DISC 1 is now “Many people have taken it for granted that we phosphodiesterase 4B (PDE4B), linked to DISC 1. one of the strongest bindings recognised. have access to safe and effective contraception, Research revealed that DISC 1 acts as a regulator However, it is also clear that DISC 1 only explains but rarely there can be side effects such as an for PDE4B, creating a ‘pathway’ between the two a proportion of the genetic risk of developing increased risk of breast cancer or thrombosis. genes, and that damage to the gene PDE4B also schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Only a subset It is theoretically possible to design a type of pill increases the risk of mental illness. of schizophrenic patients shows any evidence that that is not only safe but also protects against the DISC 1 gene is damaged or malfunctioning. these long-term risks.” “PDE4B is a very interesting enzyme involved in learning, memory and mood,” says Professor “We can’t discount other important genetic The pill in use today combines the hormones Porteous. “Laboratory research shows that DISC 1 factors, but what is unusual about DISC 1 is that oestrogen and progesterone to prevent eggs controls the activity of this enzyme, which in turn it occurs as a possible fi nding in every research being released from the ovaries. The new pill controls key signalling molecules in the brain group who have looked for it. But it’s also clear which contains neither oestrogen nor gestogen crucial for building memories. Schizophrenia is a that having a damaged version of DISC 1 does also inhibits ovulation but in addition stops condition characterised by hallucinations and not mean you will develop schizophrenia or monthly periods by blocking of the action of the delusions which could be categorised as false bipolar disorder, although the chances are hormone progesterone on the womb (uterus). memories or false ways of perceiving the world. increased 15-fold,” he says. It is, however, widely recognised that environmental factors, including “If you reduce the cyclical exposure of the uterus “The upshot is that we now have a biological lifestyle and behaviour, can affect these and breast to the ovarian hormones oestrogen pathway that starts with DISC 1 and links to conditions, which can be treated by methods and progesterone, you should reduce the risk PDE4B, which we can analyse in some detail other than drugs, such as cognitive therapy. of cancer,” says Professor Baird. to compare how this pathway functions in those individuals who are affected by schizophrenia “There are lots of environmental factors,” says “Additionally, by stopping periods the new and those individuals who are not. Professor Porteous. “However, genes do outweigh pill relieves women from many troublesome any known impact.” symptoms such as premenstrual syndrome “From a scientifi c point of view, we now have a and painful bleeding, which is an important clear route forward to understanding and treating Professor Porteous’s colleague at Edinburgh, cause of anaemia in women, particularly in the biological basis of these debilitating conditions Dr J Kirsty Millar, who recently received a developing countries.” in a much more logical and promising fashion and prestigious Research Council (RCUK) Fellowship, to develop new drugs.” will now seek ways to modify the DISC 1 pathway

Edinburgh Medical School’s arrival further at Guy’s Hospital, London on the international research scene and are commemorated on a plaque is marked by three early 19th century at the entrance to the old Medical graduates who identifi ed, and School building in Teviot Place. have their names associated with, Today’s medical breakthroughs syndromes that paved the way for by Professors David Porteous and further work throughout the world. David Baird follow in this tradition Thomas Addison (MD 1815), Richard and keep it well and truly alive. Bright (MD 1813) and Thomas Hodgkin (MD 1823) all proceeded from Edinburgh to work and study

Professor Professor David Baird David Porteous

59603_EdUni_AR2006 14 11/1/07 08:15:43 Groundbreaking research led by Professor David Porteous has made signifi cant breakthroughs in understanding schizophrenia and bipolar disorder

59603_EdUni_AR2006 15 11/1/07 08:15:56 16 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Campaigning for Long-Term Excellence

Under the banner of “Enlightenment in the 21st Crichton Street (to which the Scottish Executive Viewing the University of Edinburgh Campaign as Century”, in early October 2006 the University has already committed £14 million). a collective process with a real sense of common of Edinburgh launched the largest fundraising commitment certainly augurs well for its success – campaign for educational purposes in the history of “We identify Campaign priorities along with a success built on tradition and on shared Scotland, and the third largest of its kind in the UK. companies, trusts and individuals who have an Enlightenment values, says Young Dawkins: interest in that priority or that particular project,” “A knowledge-based economy is Scotland’s future The University of Edinburgh Campaign, a fi ve-year says Development Director Robert Fleming. and the University’s role in this is vital. For project run by Development and Alumni, got off “We explain why it is a priority of the University, example, Scotland is known internationally for to a fl ying start with £149 million of the target £350 what its importance is and what its outcomes are. its fi nancial sector, which boasts people who million secured before the offi cial launch: what the It’s about informed dialogue, a shared vision with understand the marketplace and can take a world University’s Vice-Principal of Development Young our supporters. view. We have a tremendously skilled workforce, Dawkins calls “the quiet seeking of support to an intellectual power. And this goes back to show success as we launch.” “It might be enlightened self-interest on their Adam Smith and the Enlightenment. part, because if the University is doing well the The purpose of the Campaign is to strengthen economy should benefi t; remembering the “Scotland has always exported knowledge, as areas of excellence in the University and to University’s annual turnover is over £400 million, indeed the University has always exported knowledge. provide an inspiring context to improve the if the economy is doing well, the University University’s national and international reputation should be doing well,” he says. “The business of learning how to think and how for excellence. to express thought is never fi nished. There are Young Dawkins agrees: “There is a defi nite always new challenges and the University has “Although we are among the top 50 universities correlation here. One outcome of the University always risen to them, and it always should. And in the world, and are generally recognised as one is to benefi t society as a whole. This is not an this, in essence, is what the University of Edinburgh of the best in Scotland, we still have to work hard ivory tower. We care about society and the Campaign is about.” to protect, expand and develop the work of the contributions we can make to the city, the country University. The Campaign is about the ambition and the world at large. Active engagement is one www.edinburghcampaign.ed.ac.uk to pursue excellence further. of our mandates.

“We measure ourselves against international “Scotland in general and Edinburgh in particular benchmarks – in other words, by the highest have always produced people who think outside standards. We aim to attract the best and produce the box – entrepreneurial intellect – from the the best through a programme of open access,” Enlightenment up until today with developments says Mr Dawkins. like Dolly the Sheep at the Roslin Institute and the University’s own Informatics Building. The Seeking support from ‘a community of business of entrepreneurial intellect is alive and commitment’ which includes the Scottish well, and as fundraisers we have the tremendous Executive, private sector corporations and advantage of representing a dynamic, powerful businesses, individuals and trusts, Campaign institution,” he says. organisers have identifi ed 34 areas of excellence under three major headings: scholarships, to The Campaign is not simply about engaging with make the University accessible to the brightest the bigger institutions or corporations; it is very undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral much about individual commitment. students, regardless of their fi nancial status; support and development of schools and colleges “The quality of our graduates is one of our real and academic programmes like the new measures of success,” says Mr Fleming. “Our Confucius Institute for Scotland and the Centre for graduates take immense pride in the University Arabic Studies, which draws upon 250 years of and that helps us maintain our position as a world- outstanding Arabic and Islamic scholarship at the class powerhouse of research and creativity. It University; and developing world-class facilities motivates them to give something back. Engaging like the Queen’s Medical Research Institute at with them is a major part of our work. In fact, they Little France and the new Informatics Building at are really the backbone of the Campaign.”

The fi rst acknowledged appeal also endowed the Chair of Sanskrit campaign was initiated after the and whose brother Sir William Universities (Scotland) Act 1858, Muir later became Principal of the which transformed the ancient University. The appeal created a Scottish universities into the welcome raft of scholarships and institutions that we know today. 1864 prizes, for postgraduate as well as saw the foundation of an Association undergraduate study, such as the for the Better Endowment of the University had not known hitherto. University of Edinburgh, largely through the energy of Dr John Muir, ex-East India Company, who

Robert Fleming Dr John Muir

59603_EdUni_AR2006 16 11/1/07 08:16:00 Andrew Marr launched the University’s landmark fi ve-year fundraising project, the University of Edinburgh Campaign

59603_EdUni_AR2006 17 11/1/07 08:16:16 18 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Advancing Mathematics to All

In addition to producing graduates capable “The Advanced Higher has a packed syllabus, Originally set up as a partnership by Dr Hannu of setting up successful new companies, the refl ecting the fact that maths is versatile and Rajaniemi and Dr Daniel Winterstein (who took University of Edinburgh is advancing the cause enjoyable and wide-ranging,” says Dr Liam both their fi rst and second degrees at the of mathematics in Edinburgh and Lothian schools. O’Carroll of the University’s School of University’s School of Mathematics), the company Mathematics, who is leading the project. “It is was incorporated last January. Among its fi rst Rated one of the top mathematics departments also very popular, as our recruitment fi gures clients was the electronics giant, Motorola. in the UK, the University’s School of Mathematics indicate. Last year we had 240 students in our has seen admissions rise by 50% – and fi rst-year Honours class alone.” “We worked with Motorola to improve their applications by two thirds – over the last three network quality through algorithm design,” says years, thereby bucking a national trend which has Participating pupils judged the revision course Dr Rajaniemi. “We also used data analysis and seen a signifi cant decline in student numbers in a success. The vast majority agreed that the aims automation to automate and improve the recent years and the loss of a number of university of the sessions had been realised, adding that the admission process at the University of Edinburgh, mathematics departments in other parts of the UK. content was “just right” or “very relevant”. Every and we made a medical drug application patch pupil taking part said they would recommend the more reliable by pre-prototyping an idea for At the request of Edinburgh and Lothian revision days to other pupils. Oxford University.” secondary teachers, the School of Mathematics offered over 120 sixth-year pupils two Advanced Nicola Smith, a former pupil at Edinburgh’s “The world that has developed from computers Higher revision sessions last April in a pilot Broughton High School who is now studying is now so complex that modelling it requires programme that is being expanded this session. mathematics and economics at the University, sophisticated mathematical tools,” says says: “I found the revision classes really helpful Dr Winterstein. “In other words, the potential “Initiatives like this are a crucial part of the as we summarised the whole course and it for synergy between mathematics and business School’s mission,” says the Head of School, allowed me to identify which topics I needed is greater than ever.” Professor Michael Singer. “It is essential for to go over more thoroughly. universities to work with local schools rather than Attracting, developing and supporting innovative in isolation if they are to succeed in training the “Learning from different lecturers was good as ideas and enterprising students is vital to the next generation of scientists and mathematicians, they all gave us great ideas for exam techniques School of Mathematics. “Our students are including teachers in those subjects.” and revision which gave me more confi dence discovering that maths can be applied in about passing – but it would have been even a whole range of areas,” says Dr O’Carroll. Advanced Higher is generally recognised as a more useful if the classes had run for a few weeks demanding course to take – and to teach – and more as there’s a lot of work in the course.” “While many students combine maths with the University is keen to support teachers and traditionally related subjects like economics, to encourage pupils to pursue mathematics This year’s participating pupils received their fi rst computer science and physics, others are linking at university level. session in December, which should prepare them it to disciplines like music and philosophy. for the coming April sessions. The School of “We strongly recommend Advanced Higher for Mathematics is now hoping to run Continuous “This can only be good for a subject which is, prospective undergraduates, though we do give Professional Development sessions for Advanced and should be, expanding. Maths skills are vital offers on the basis of Highers,” says School Higher teachers. for the country’s education, fi nance, IT, business Liaison Assistant, Lois Rollings. “We want to help and manufacturing sectors.” local schools who have traditionally done well in Initiatives such as these can help to encourage Advanced Higher, to support further improvement the sort of dynamism which has led to the Funding for the school revision sessions is provided by the and to highlight the importance of the formation of ThinkTank Mathematics Ltd, an Brightside Trust, which was secured by Kathleen Hood and qualifi cation to us.” exciting young company supported by the Karen Hinton of Student Recruitment and Admissions. University. The only company of its kind in With a carefully chosen team, the University Scotland, ThinkTank is a technology consultancy supplied all but one of the revision tutors, drawn and Intellectual Property (IP) generator based at from staff and students, who focused on all the Edinburgh Technology Transfer Centre at aspects of the syllabus and exam paper, King’s Buildings, offering cutting-edge solutions including a special session on exam technique based on PhD-level expertise in mathematics and group work on set questions. and artifi cial intelligence.

The Chair of Mathematics was and James Gregory, Colin McLaurin, created in 1620 with the appointment John Playfair, John Leslie, William of Professor Andrew Young, Regents Wallace, George Chrystal, and Arthur of Philosophy since 1601. He may Edélyi. Professor Michael Singer, have been recommended for the recently appointed Head of the Chair by John Napier of Merchiston, School of Mathematics, joined the the inventor of logarithms, who University as a lecturer and research presented the College with a fellow in 1994. quadrant ‘for the use of the Professor of Mathematics’ in 1621. Later holders of the Chair include David

Professor John Napier Michael Singer

59603_EdUni_AR2006 18 11/1/07 08:16:22 Pupils at St Thomas of Aquin’s High School benefi ted from the School of Mathematics’ revision sessions

59603_EdUni_AR2006 19 11/1/07 08:16:33 20 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 A Modern Approach to History

Professor Tom Devine, the pre-eminent authority His comparative approach to unravelling these “I’m an adherent of what the French call ‘total on the history of modern Scotland, took up his questions, he believes, both widens the fi eld and history’, which looks at everything from politics appointment as the Sir William Fraser Professor sharpens historical analysis. and economics to education, demographics and of Scottish History and Palaeography at the other social factors. A confi dent and sophisticated University of Edinburgh in January 2006. He is “A comparative approach counters introspection subject should seek out intellectual relationships the fi rst modernist to hold what is acknowledged or parochialism and creates new questions. with other historians and other subjects. to be the world’s premier Chair of Scottish History. Comparison, in fact, reveals what is distinctive. The most diffi cult issue for a historian is not fi nding “My prime responsibility is to continue to raise the Professor Devine is distinctive among leading answers but producing new questions, fresh excellent quality of Scottish History teaching and historians in that history was not his fi rst chosen approaches and perspectives.” research at the University and to forge closer links subject at either school or university, and also in with the rest of the History School – there are over that he claims no interest in the past per se. “I’m It was in his fi rst year as an undergraduate at the 70 historians at Edinburgh – and with those social not really interested in the past, at least not for its University of Strathclyde that Professor Devine scientists who have a Scottish interest.” own sake. What interests me are the puzzles and discovered delight in the subject which he had paradoxes which history throws up,” he says. found “boringly taught and not entirely relevant” But for one of Scotland’s most widely read at school, and which he had not pursued beyond historians, this is only part of the story. He says: One reason he chose to give his inaugural lecture second year. Ironically, it was a former school “At this time in the nation’s history we also have a at the University on “Three Hundred Years of the teacher, Tom Macaloon, then lecturing at responsibility to contribute to wider debates and Anglo-Scottish Union” was to question the received Strathclyde, who kindled his interest. issues in the media. Scottish people want to know wisdom in some quarters that the Union was (for more about who they are, more about their culture Scotland) based on the benefi ts of Empire. “What happened to me shows the worth of the and their history; and they have a real and great broad-based Scottish degree which meant taking hunger for academic history presented in an “The Empire has gone but the Union is still fi ve subjects in my fi rst year, including European accessible form. As professional historians, this is here,” he says. “The question is: why has it History, which was well taught by Tom. In fact, the a challenge, which some of us are keen to meet.” been maintained?” way he showed me how to write an essay is still the way I write articles and books,” he says. Similarly, in his contribution to the University’s Enlightenment Series of lectures, “A Puzzle from The tribute is signifi cant, given that Professor the Past: How Can the Scottish Enlightenment be Devine has written and/or edited 25 books and Explained?”, he set out to explore how a country authored more than 100 articles. But history was which had lost its Royal Court in 1603 and its also coming alive in different ways, he says, Parliament in 1707, and which had a reputation for in the 1960s. religious fanaticism, nevertheless succeeded in creating the foundations of modern rationalism, “There was a fresh approach because social tolerance and pluralism through the Enlightenment and economic history was beginning to emerge virtues which it propounded. alongside the traditional political and religious emphases. There was also an academic infl ux Professor Devine also broke new ground as a from the south of people who dropped their pioneer of Scottish-Irish studies, becoming the English specialisms to take on Scottish issues, founder Director of the Research Institute of Irish and bringing with them social-scientifi c approaches Scottish Studies (inaugurated by Irish President Mary which helped liberate Scottish History from its McAleese) at the University of Aberdeen in 1999. parochialism. It helped globalise the subject.” Here again it was the paradoxes and puzzles which exercised the historian’s mind: “Why, for example, In his new post at Edinburgh Professor Devine, had Scotland achieved industrial revolution by the who was awarded an OBE in 2005 for his 19th century while Ireland was suffering famine? services to Scottish History, is keen to pursue It’s questions like those which attract me,” he says. this comparative and interdisciplinary approach:

Peter Hume Brown was the fi rst holder, Robert Kerr Hannay (1919), person to be appointed, in 1901, William Croft Dickinson (1943), to the Sir William Fraser Chair of Gordon Donaldson (1963), Michael Scottish History and Palaeography. Lynch (1994), and now Thomas Endowed by a Scottish archivist and Devine (2006), has been primus genealogist, and the oldest Chair of inter pares in his day. Scottish History in the UK, it was the second Chair of History in the Faculty of Arts (but Ecclesiastical History in the Faculty of Divinity is older than either of them). Each successive

Professor Tom Devine Professor Peter Hume Brown

59603_EdUni_AR2006 20 11/1/07 08:16:38 Professor Tom Devine is the fi rst modernist to hold what is generally acknowledged to be the world’s premier Chair of Scottish History

59603_EdUni_AR2006 21 11/1/07 08:16:50 22 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Innovative Teaching and Learning in a Digital Age

At fi rst glance, ecclesiastical history appears medical conditions like tropical diseases that attractive to them and it may well be one reason to have little in common with subjects such seldom get into the country,” he says. why our numbers are creeping up while numbers as physics and veterinary medicine. At the are generally falling across the UK in both Physics University of Edinburgh, however, the Schools As well as giving students a real sense of the and Maths.” of Divinity, Physics and Veterinary Medicine, reality of hospital work, the VHO also supports alongside Education and Medicine, are all the education process by enabling them to access The School’s e-Learning tracking system shows linked through their use of new digital resources online, create web pages, add their too that students are using web resources as technologies to support teaching, learning own annotations to resources and discuss issues. more than just a digital fi ling cabinet. and assessment. “Receiving the Queen’s Award, an institutional “Reconstructing student pathways demonstrates Already renowned for its medical and veterinary equivalent to the Honours List for individuals, is a they are exploring complex routes through research, the University of Edinburgh is now being tremendous promotional boost for the University’s material and are interacting with it. I believe it recognised as a leader in its development of a use of technology to support teaching and shows that we are giving the students the best of fully integrated, e-Learning support system for learning,” says Professor Dewhurst. both worlds. e-Learning is not here to replace but medical and veterinary education. to enhance face-to-face learning,” says Dr Bates. The University has also developed online distance Comprising three Virtual Learning Environments courses at Masters level in Pain Management, The University’s ecclesiastical historians are (VLEs), the system supports the two fi ve-year Anaesthesia Practice (aimed at medical/clinical also in the forefront of electronic innovation, undergraduate degree programmes in the College staff), Clinical Education and International Animal as was recognised by a National Award for of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine (MVM) and Health. It will launch a similar Masters degree in History Teaching in Higher Education received all of the College’s taught and research Surgical Science, in a collaboration between MVM by Doctors Jane Dawson and Kirsteen Murray postgraduate students. and the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, of the e-Learning team in the School of Divinity in October this year. last April. Since the system is online, students and staff are able to engage with it from any place or time Innovations in e-Learning and teaching have been The annual national competition, organised by zone in the world. This fl exibility has particular recognised within the University itself. In August the Higher Education Academy’s Subject Area advantages for trainee doctors and vets, who last year Dr Simon Bates, Senior Lecturer and for History, Classics and Archaeology, is run need access to learning and information at any Director of Teaching at the School of Physics, in conjunction with the six major professional time, day or night, during their clinical placements received a Chancellor’s Award for his work in bodies in history: the Royal Historical Society; in hospitals or veterinary practices. developing, supporting and promoting the the Institute of Historical Research; the Historical pragmatic use of e-Learning methodologies Association; History UK; the Social History In November 2005, the University received one across the School’s teaching programme. Society; and the Economic History Society. of the Queen’s Anniversary Awards for Further and Higher Education for this work, for a proposal: Among these innovations is the Electronic Voting The award followed recognition of the Divinity the Virtual Hospital Online (VHO) – transforming System (EVS), introduced in September 2005, team’s work the previous year when Dr Dawson medical and veterinary education. which mediates communication between a class received the Chancellor’s Award for Teaching. of several hundred students and the lecturer, “The VHO helps our academic teachers to making it more interactive and giving students The University has also launched its new MSc in develop e-resources. Virtual patients are delivered more input into the direction of each lecture. e-Learning, offering academics and researchers on screen for students to address, as junior the chance to undertake advanced study of the doctors might in a real-life situation, to enable “We found that more students attended lectures ways in which digital technologies are changing them to diagnose and prescribe treatments,” says last year and feedback also suggests they fi nd learning and teaching. Professor David Dewhurst, Assistant Principal for interactive lectures are a good use of their time e-Learning and e-Health and Director of Learning and more rewarding than simply being talked at Dr Sian Bayne, the Programme Director, comments: Technology in the College of Medicine and by a lecturer,” says Dr Bates. “From the teaching “Our students are interested not only in what Veterinary Medicine at the University. point of view it is easy to use, though you have to teaching can do with technology, but in what learn what a good question is and where to place technology does to teaching. The MSc teaches “Students don’t have the same access to real it in your lecture. It thus makes you a more across multiple digital environments including wikis, patients that they used to. The VHO goes some refl ective teacher while being in tune with the weblogs and virtual worlds. In using these new way to addressing this. Students can practice in a students’ perspective. spaces as teaching environments, the MSc helps safe, non-intimidating learning environment, which students to think about how we can conduct high is good preparation for practising medicine in real “In terms of recruitment we are also fi nding that, in quality teaching within an environment of rapid life and is also useful for addressing relatively rare talking to prospective undergraduates, the EVS is technological change.”

The Chair of Education (the fi rst in (later Professor of Computer Science) an English-speaking university) was in 1963 as Director of the new established at Edinburgh in 1876 Computer Unit. These two threads with the appointment of Professor have created the University’s present Simon Laurie. The University’s environment as a centre of excellence commitment to computer science in e-Learning and research under and information technology began Professor David Dewhurst. with the appointments of Dr Donald Michie (later Professor of Machine Intelligence) to the Faculty of Medicine in 1961, and of Dr Sidney Michaelson

Dr Donald Michie Professor David Dewhurst

59603_EdUni_AR2006 22 11/1/07 08:16:57 e-Learning innovations can offer students fl exibility in how, where and when they learn

59603_EdUni_AR2006 23 11/1/07 08:17:09 24 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Enlightenment for the Modern World

On 21 February 2006, more than 1,300 people Stiglitz, formerly chief economic advisor to To profi le Enlightenment treasures in its special packed into the Assembly Hall, New College, President Clinton and Chief Economist at the collections and make them openly accessible, the to attend a unique event: the inaugural lecture in World Bank from 1997 to 2000. University is preparing two digitalised editions: the University of Edinburgh Enlightenment Series, a sermon by William Robertson and an early copy delivered by Irene Khan, Secretary General of His most important contribution to economic of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (complete with Amnesty International. theory has been his role in shaping and defi ning student marginalia). the ‘third way’ economic philosophy, which seeks The event was remarkable in many ways, as to rebalance the infl uence of governments and An Enlightenment exhibition is also planned Ms Khan is the fi rst woman, the fi rst Asian and markets in political economies. Currently a and will include a host of artefacts including the fi rst Muslim to head the world’s largest human professor at Columbia University, in the sixties he manuscripts, portraits, William Robertson’s rights organisation, and this was the fi rst visit witnessed Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a spectacles and Adam Ferguson’s coffee pot. to Scotland by an Amnesty Secretary General. Dream” speech in Washington DC. Open access to the University’s public lectures, Her lecture “The War on Terror … a War on In October, in the third lecture in the series, seminars, exhibitions and online collections Liberty?” launched the series of lectures, Professor Tom Devine addressed the question reinforces the Edinburgh tradition that generously supported by ScottishPower, which of “Why the Scottish Enlightenment Happened”, Enlightenment is for all. seeks to examine aspects of the Enlightenment’s which led to a panel discussion on the parallel legacy in the context of our contemporary world. question: “Could the Enlightenment happen The University of Edinburgh acknowledges the support again today?”. The Sir William Fraser Chair of of ScottishPower in making the Enlightenment Lecture The University was central to the Scottish Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, Series possible. Enlightenment of the late eighteenth and early Professor Devine believes the public nineteenth centuries and it remains a vital forum dissemination of Enlightenment values is for Enlightenment values today. Regarding the essential today. Enlightenment as a process rather than an end in itself, and as more than just the Golden Age “The two great values of the Enlightenment were: of such luminaries as David Hume, William one, to base action on reason; and two, tolerance Robertson, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith, of diverse opinions. Both are vital to today’s world, the University has always disseminated ideas which is replete with partiality and, in certain parts, to the city, the nation and the wider world. It is in full of intolerance,” he comments. this tradition of the ‘democratic intellect’ that it continues to attract people who are contributing Running alongside the lectures is a series of in a major way to these values and to disseminate informal lunchtime seminars on the broad theme their ideas through this important series of free, of “Enlightenment and Popular Culture in the public lectures. Age of Enlightenment”. The fi rst three seminars explored aspects of theatre and performance – to “You cannot underestimate the importance of coincide with the Edinburgh International Festival these lectures, which can also be accessed by – and were given by members of the School of anyone online after the event,” says University History and Classics at the University of Vice-Principal, Professor Geoffrey Boulton. Edinburgh, covering topics from Handel and the oriental infl uence on eighteenth-century opera, “We need to refocus on the values of the to street theatre and the performance of sociability Enlightenment – values which argue that ideas at assembly rooms. and concepts must have grounding and be tested in reality – because they are under Other seminars will focus on the impact massive attack internationally.” of Enlightenment values on society, the Enlightenment’s infl uence on popular music The second lecture in the series, entitled and the popular reception of the work of Henry “Globalisation and the 21st Century Raeburn, this last coinciding with an exhibition Enlightenment”, was delivered in August by the of Raeburn’s portraits and prints at the University’s Nobel Prize-winning economist Professor Joseph Talbot Rice Gallery in November.

William Robertson, the great historian which time the philosopher David and Principal of the University 1760- Hume also studied at the University 1793, whose portrait by Raeburn now and at Glasgow but, like most dominates the collection of portraits contemporaries, did not graduate. in the Raeburn Room in Old College, Today, the present Lord Provost became known as the Father of Lesley Hinds, together with Professor the Scottish Enlightenment. Before Timothy O’Shea, aim to show that his appointment, the University the city and its University have the owed much of its development to potential to be seen once again as George Drummond, Lord Provost a centre for enlightenment and a of Edinburgh 1725-1764, during ‘hotbed of genius’.

Principal William Lord Provost Robertson Lesley Hinds

59603_EdUni_AR2006 24 11/1/07 08:17:15 Irene Khan delivers the inaugural lecture for the University of Edinburgh Enlightenment Series

59603_EdUni_AR2006 25 11/1/07 08:17:24 26 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Going Green: Working Together for the Environment

Three hundred thousand cups of coffee are Association for Universities and Colleges (of which very pleased that the new Informatics Building consumed every year at the University of it is a founder member). In addition, the University under construction has been rated ‘excellent’ Edinburgh’s staff meetings, while a further 1,700kg is a proactive member of the Scottish Universities by the Building Research Establishment’s of coffee are sold across the counters of student Network for Sustainability and the Edinburgh Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM).” cafe-bars. That does amount to quite a hill Sustainable Partnership. of beans, and rather important beans at that, The University now uses 80% recycled content because all this coffee is Fairtrade – only fi tting “Sustainability makes sense in what we teach, paper in all offi ces and copy centres and 100% for Scotland’s fi rst Fairtrade University, a status what we research and how we run our business,” recycled content paper for all stationery and for conferred in March 2004 and recently reaffi rmed. says Mr Somervell, whose offi ce deals with the many magazines and newsletters printed in- three key areas of energy and water, travel and house. It is well on schedule to achieve its targets The University’s Fairtrade Policy is only one part transport, and waste and recycling. of recycling 30% of its general waste by the end of its much wider Sustainability Policy, launched of this year and to reduce waste to landfi ll per in June 2000, which is fast making the University In the last three years a major commitment to person by 5% by 2010. It also actively encourages an exemplar ‘green’ institution. Combined Heat and Power (CHP) has seen the staff and students to walk, cycle or use public University install three energy-effi cient CHP ‘power transport to and from University campuses. Defi ning sustainable development as ‘meeting stations’ across the city at Pollock Halls, King’s present needs without compromising the ability Buildings and, last summer, in George Square. Combined with such practical strategies, of future generations to meet their own needs’, environmental research at Edinburgh includes policy objectives include making sustainability “These CHP stations meet local needs. The the Advanced Computer Facility (ACF), used by a corporate priority, developing appropriate University now imports only half of its electricity, international researchers to model climate change, teaching and research, and maintaining and which makes for a signifi cant reduction in while on top of two MSc courses in Environmental developing the University in a sustainable manner. environmental pollution. CHP runs at 85% Sustainability that are already on offer, the effi ciency, while a big coal-fi red power station runs University launched the fi rst undergraduate course “This policy was initially developed in the early at about 25% effi ciency. Generating electricity in Environmental Sustainability last January, 1990s by Sir David Smith, the University Principal locally provides a massive reduction in losses and attracting 80 fi rst- and second-year students. at the time. As a botanist who understood the will save the University over £500,000 per annum,” environmental imperative, he was very keen on says Mr Somervell. “Most of our improvements are ‘hidden’ – the new ‘greening’ the University,” says David Somervell, energy centres, better insulation, e-procurement who was appointed to the post of Energy and In January last year an Energy Reduction and so on. But we are quietly transforming Sustainability Manager in 1989, one of the fi rst Campaign – “Switch and Save” – was launched ourselves from within as an exemplar green posts of its kind in a UK university. to cut carbon emissions by 40% by 2010, putting institution,” says Mr Somervell. “This is vital if the University well on the road to achieving the we are to retain our leadership role in the UK and “Sir David’s three principles were environmental government target of a 60% reduction by 2050. Europe as a ‘green’ university in order to continue teaching, environmental research and to attract the best students. We can’t afford to rest environmental practice, and they became core The University has embarked on a strategy of on our laurels, however green they are. Every objectives adopted by the University Court in 1993. sub-metering every building for water and morning it’s still a matter of waking up and electricity in order to measure consumption and smelling the coffee.” “Edinburgh has always pursued the notion cost and refl ect back to staff and students to raise of ‘greening’ the curriculum rather than seeing awareness and make energy savings after a pilot environmental issues as a ‘bolt-on’.” initiative achieved an 18% reduction in a single building. As part of this strategy every University In many ways the University has traditionally taken building will soon have an energy coordinator a lead in environmental issues. As early as 1974 and projected savings are being ringfenced for it established a fuel conservation group, and in academic subjects. 1990 hosted a conference on energy management which attracted representatives from 150 further “We’ve been exploring another decentralised and higher education institutions across Britain. energy project, Building Integrated Photo-Voltaics: In 1994 it hosted the fi rst UK-wide meeting of solar panels which generate a 26kWp output at environmental coordinators, which led to the the new William Rankine Building, opened during establishment of the UK Environmental summer 2006,” says Mr Somervell, “and we’re

The designation as Scotland’s fi rst C H Waddington, Buchan Professor Fairtrade University in 2004, together of Animal Genetics since 1946, with its election of two Green MSPs as established the pioneering Centre recent Rectors, are recent events in a for Human Ecology in the Faculty continuum of ecological awareness, of Science and Engineering in 1972, research and teaching that goes simultaneously with the publication of back to the mid-20th century. ‘Natural The Ecologist’s A Blueprint for Survival. Resources’ was formally added to the name of the Chair and Department of Forestry in 1963 with the appointment of Professor John Black.

David Somervell Professor C H Waddington

59603_EdUni_AR2006 26 11/1/07 08:17:29 The University encourages staff and students to opt for more environmentally sound modes of transport

59603_EdUni_AR2006 27 11/1/07 08:17:39 28 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 The Review of the Year

August 2005 understanding of the use of genomics-related infectious conditions such as malaria, sleeping • The Talbot Rice Gallery hosts a lecture by Robert science and technologies. sickness, elephantiasis and stomach ulcer Hughes, award-winning art critic and historian, to • Software developed by the University’s Parallel bacteria. The new centre, opened by Dr Mark celebrate the Gallery’s 30th anniversary. Computing Centre (EPCC) supports a computing Walport, Director of the Wellcome Trust, will • Scientists at the University develop a new grid that stretches across three continents: from enhance the University’s global standing in the two technique which can rid surgical instruments of the UK across to China and Australia. The three- key fi elds of immunology and evolutionary biology. the infectious agents that cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob continent grid – the fi rst of its type and the longest • The University wins one of the prestigious Disease (CJD) in humans. The project is funded grid in the world – links computers at EPCC, Curtin Queen’s Anniversary prizes for the Virtual Hospital by the Department of Health and could soon be University of Technology in Western Australia and Online, a learning support environment developed developed commercially. the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine. • The University pays tribute to Robin Cook, whose The Virtual Hospital allows students to access a long-standing relationship with the University was October 2005 vast range of online resources and services, much valued. He will be sorely missed. • The University opens Scotland’s fi rst tailored specifi cally to their studies. • HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, permanent paved labyrinth. The Edinburgh • Scientists from the Universities of Edinburgh Chancellor of the University, presents awards to Labyrinth, which was pioneered by University and Glasgow, together with scientists from a Professor Jean Beggs, from the School of Chaplain Reverend Diane Williams, was offi cially pharmaceutical company, identify a new gene Biological Sciences, for her work on molecular opened by Richard Holloway, Chair of the linked to major mental illness that links back to genetics, and Professor Jane Dawson for her Scottish Arts Council, and funded by the a previously discovered gene known to increase development of innovative e-Teaching techniques University of Edinburgh Development Trust. the risk of schizophrenia and depression. in the School of Divinity. • Dr Zhou Ji, the Chinese Minister of Education, • Scientists at the Universities of Edinburgh and visits the University to promote education, December 2005 Milan make a major breakthrough in tackling business and research links. • Professor Ian Wilmut, whose research led to the neurological conditions like Parkinson’s and • Sir Michael Atiyah, Honorary Professor at the cloning of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, is announced Alzheimer’s. They are the fi rst in the world to School of Mathematics, delivers the fi rst Einstein as the new head of the Centre for Regenerative develop a new technique to grow pure brain Public Lecture in Mathematics at the University of Medicine, which will work to develop new stem cells, helping to discover more about Nebraska-Lincoln. treatments for human disease through innovative these diseases. • The Sunday Times University Guide ranks research with stem cells. • Researchers from the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh as the Scottish University of the Year. • New research by University scientists shows and Pennsylvania State University discover a • The University joins a ground-breaking an important breakthrough in understanding how solution to one of the biggest challenges facing international alliance that will work towards the animals with complex nervous systems, such as the optics and electromagnetics sector – how to development of new drug therapies. The Scottish humans, achieve rapid signalling between their produce near-perfect lenses cheaply. Centre for Genomic Technology and Informatics nerve cells. The discovery may lead to new ways (GTI) at the University is one of nine centres to help treat patients with multiple sclerosis. September 2005 around the world to have been chosen by US • The University’s Management School wins the • A trial led by Professor Keith Fox produces genetics company Dharmacon to form a new inaugural Scottish Financial Enterprise Innovators landmark results, revealing that more than 5,000 Genome-Wide RNAi Global Initiative to advance Award for its new MSc in Finance and Investment, lives could be saved in the UK each year by biomedical research. beating off entries from leading banks and fi nance changing the way Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) • The School of Physics helps a schoolgirl from and investment houses. is treated. Professor Fox’s research, funded by the Penicuik to test Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity • University scientists discover a potential new British Heart Foundation, is the fi rst large long-term on top of one of Scotland’s highest mountains. treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. They identify study to show that early specialist assessment and • Vets at the University’s Hospital for Small a new class of compounds which could lead to procedures to repair or bypass damaged arteries Animals discover that asthmatic cats may be the production of a cheaper but equally effective can save lives of people with ACS. allergic to humans. version of an existing treatment of rheumatoid • The University’s Informatics Forum receives a • The Edinburgh Research Partnership (ERP) arthritis called anti-TNF therapy. £19 million boost, with £14 million secured from the is launched. The £24 million initiative will • The University announces that it is to more than Scottish Executive and a further £5 million awarded make Scotland’s capital a magnet for treble the prize money awarded to winners of the by Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian. international funding and will support James Tait Black Memorial Prize from £6,000 to • The University’s student web portal, ESP, is postgraduate talent working in key areas £20,000. The awards, dating from 1919, are given replaced by a new web portal service – MyEd. of engineering and mathematics. to the best work of fi ction and best biography The portal provides a personalised, secure published during the previous year. gateway to web-based services within the November 2005 University and beyond. • A consortium of scientists from the Universities January 2006 • A joint venture to establish the largest ever of Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Scottish • The University’s annual turnover exceeds £400 consortium to support UK academic research Agricultural College and the Roslin Institute receive million for the fi rst time, making it the largest using high-performance computers (HPC) is funding to investigate the long-term effects of university in Scotland, and sixth in the UK, in terms approved. The University of Edinburgh, the stress on farm animals and their young, and look of overall income. University of Manchester and the Council for the at ways to improve their welfare. • Researchers at the University announce they are Central Laboratories of the Research Councils’ • The University offi cially opens a £7 million a step closer to producing anti-cancer drugs with Daresbury Laboratory will work together, pooling research facility that will help scientists tackle fewer unwanted side effects than conventional their complementary expertise. diseases which affect hundreds of millions of lives chemotherapy. • The Economic and Social Research Council’s worldwide. The Henry Wellcome Laboratories • The University is the fi rst institution in Scotland Genomics Policy and Research Forum launches at of Infection Biology and Immunology will enable to take part in the National Student Survey, which the University. The Forum aims to help further our researchers to work on treatments for a range of asks fi nal-year students for their views on the

59603_EdUni_AR2006 28 11/1/07 08:17:45 29 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

quality of their degree programmes and universities. The partnership will help patients with cancer and • Edinburgh researchers devise a new means • Engineers at the University announce that robust other life-threatening diseases, improve teaching to identify groups of people genetically more at cutting tools used to sever underwater cables in the and training in the discipline of palliative care and risk from bowel cancer, potentially leading to new North Sea could soon be adapted to perform delicate may lead to the creation of a world-leading centre measures to prevent the disease for thousands surgery. The water jet tools would have the advantage for integrative cancer care research. of people in the future. of minimising trauma to surrounding tissue, reducing • A major donation by Harry Potter author • The new rector of the University of Edinburgh, blood loss and offering greater precision. JK Rowling enables the University to form a Mark Ballard MSP, is offi cially installed in offi ce Scottish Multiple Sclerosis research centre – the at a public ceremony in Old College. February 2006 fi rst of its kind in the UK. • Ian McEwan and Sue Prideaux are announced • The University and Edinburgh College of Art • First Minister Jack McConnell and Mr John as the winners of the University’s literary award, enter into discussions to review the options for Brumby, State Treasurer and Minister for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, which is one future strategic alliance and collaboration over Innovation, Industry and Regional Development of the UK’s oldest literary prizes. McEwan won the the coming years. for the State of Victoria, Australia, are welcomed fi ction prize for his novel Saturday and Prideaux • It is announced that 12 Russian postgraduate to the Queen’s Medical Research Institute. was presented with the non-fi ction prize for Edvard students over the course of fi ve years will be • The University of Edinburgh is to participate in Munch: Behind the Scream. awarded scholarships totalling £250,000 by the world’s fi rst Translational Medicine Research • Graduations proceed almost entirely to plan Scottish and Newcastle plc. Half of the scholarships Collaboration. The collaboration is the result of an despite industrial action by some staff. are allocated to the Management School. investment, worth up to £50 million, by Wyeth • The University collaborates in Generation Pharmaceuticals, one of the world’s largest July 2006 Scotland, an ambitious and groundbreaking pharmaceutical companies. • Edinburgh researchers identify the role of a project looking at the ways genetic and lifestyle • Deputy First Minister Nicol Stephen performs specifi c protein cell in the spread of cancer. factors can cause cancer, heart disease and a ground breaking ceremony at the site that will The fi ndings could pave the way for new drugs mental illness. become the new Informatics Forum. to limit the protein’s ability to turn a normal • Green Party MSP Mark Ballard is elected the cell cancerous. new Rector of the University, following a closely May 2006 • The University forms a partnership with its fought election which employed an electronic • Professor Tom Devine, the pre-eminent authority neighbour the Royal College of Surgeons to offer voting system for the fi rst time. Ballard (Class of on the history of modern Scotland, delivers his a degree in Surgical Science. The collaboration is 1994) vowed to support issues such as fair trade, inaugural lecture reviewing the Anglo-Scottish thought to be their fi rst ever formal agreement. recycling and ethical investment. Union, in the approach to the 300th anniversary • Scientists at Edinburgh discover primitive liver cells • The University signs an agreement with the of the Union of the Parliaments. in the human body that have the potential to mature Systems Biology Institute in Tokyo which will • The Salisbury Green Hotel Conference Centre, into different cell types and help repair a failing liver. enable multidisciplinary research to take place, managed by Edinburgh First, opens for business The fi ndings suggest alternative methods to liver bringing together biologists, mathematicians after a £2.8 million refurbishment and 12 months transplants in treating liver diseases. and computer scientists. of work. • Edinburgh wins the Walter Scott and Partners March 2006 Ltd Boat Race between the Universities of • The University’s eScience Institute is awarded Edinburgh and Glasgow. Edinburgh’s rowers funding of over £2.7 million through an Engineering won four out of the seven races. and Physical Sciences Research Council grant • The University appoints two new Vice-Principals. which will enable it to continue its programme Professor Steve Chapman will take up the position of support for the UK eScience community. of Vice-Principal of Planning and Resources in • Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty September 2007, while Professor Lorraine International, gives the fi rst in the University’s Waterhouse takes up the position of Vice-Principal series of Enlightenment lectures to more than for Equality and Diversity in January 2007. 1,000 guests in New College. The lecture series is generously supported by ScottishPower. June 2006 • The Student Barometer Project sees the • The University launches a major fi ve-year energy University rated highly by international students reduction campaign internally. The scheme aims for reputation, friendliness and teaching quality. to save money, reduce the University’s carbon The study is considered to be a global dioxide emissions, and contribute to the global benchmark of expectations and experiences fi ght against climate change. among international students. • The University will join a £22 million research initiative set up to help scientists better understand April 2006 the planet’s environmental problems. The Scottish • Major funding is announced to enable Alliance for GeoScience, Environment and Society researchers at the University to tackle some of the (SAGES) will focus on subjects such as climate most diffi cult challenges facing biological science. change, soil erosion, fl oods and greenhouse The £8.5 million award, from the Biotechnology gases and their wider impact. and Biological Sciences Research Council • The University launches a new “Public Policy (BBSRC), will support a new centre for research Network” at the Scottish Executive, providing an into integrative systems biology. umbrella for all of the University’s public policy • A new partnership between St Columba’s activity across all disciplines from the natural Hospice, Edinburgh and the University is forged. sciences through to medicine and social science.

59603_EdUni_AR2006 29 11/1/07 08:17:46 30 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Financial Review Financial review

The University’s strong fi nancial performance has continued in the last year. This is clearly a refl ection of the teaching and research strengths of the University and the notable activities that have taken place, which build on its international reputation.

The surplus for the year was £8.2 million or 2% of income. This level of surplus has enabled an additional £10 million to be invested in an enhanced capital building programme over the next two years. Gross income increased by £32.9 million (8.2%) compared to the previous year. Funding Council Grants increased by £14.7 million (10.9%), partly refl ecting the application of infrastructure funds to major refurbishment projects and partly as a result of the receipt of new research pooling grants. International student numbers continued to grow resulting in an increase in income of £4.4 million (17.5%). Research grants and contracts have again shown strong growth with income increasing by £9.7 million (9.3%). Higher interest rates, in part, helped to increase endowment and investment income by £2.8 million (24.9%).

As the University continued to attract leading academic staff during the year, staff numbers increased by just over 5% and staff costs by £17 million.

Operating expenses increased by £21.1 million with signifi cant increases being noted in repairs and maintenance (£12.1 million) and utilities (£2.7 million).

Group net assets excluding pension liability increased during the year by £31.8 million to £1,018 million. New building works commenced during the year included the Informatics building at Potterrow, the refurbishment of the Hugh Robson building and further investment in the Centre for Biomedical Research. Projects completed in the year included the Queen’s Medical Research Institute adjacent to the new Medical School. This investment in University infrastructure is necessary as world-class facilities play a vital part in attracting students and staff.

Moving forward, a key challenge for the University will be to match the growth in income of the top English universities with their resources boosted by higher student fees from home and EU students. As well as this challenge, staff costs are forecast to rise well above the rate of general infl ation in part as a result of the impact of pay modernisation. In addition, pension contributions will have to rise to cover the increasing liability.

The University will continue to use its strong balance sheet to invest in a sustainable estate, maximise the allocation of resources towards academic activity ahead of the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise and bring forward new IT systems.

59603_EdUni_AR2006 30 11/1/07 08:17:46 31 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Financial Review

Group income and expenditure account for the year ended 31 July 2006

2006 2005 Restated £ 000s £ 000s Income Funding council grants 148,693 134,006 Tuition fees and education contracts 65,417 59,116 Research grants and contracts 113,674 103,969 Other income 93,680 94,327 Endowment and investment income 14,105 11,289

Total income 435,569 402,707

Expenditure Staff costs 238,849 221,862 Other operating expenses 166,894 145,803 Depreciation 19,017 19,555 Interest payable 3,919 4,634

Total expenditure 428,679 391,854

Surplus on continuing operations after depreciation of assets at valuation and before taxation 6,890 10,853 Gains on disposal of properties 3,283 440

Surplus after depreciation of assets at valuation and disposal of assets but before taxation 10,173 11,293

Taxation (8) (4) Minority interest 3 3 Transfers to accumulated income within specifi c endowment asset investments (1,958) (736)

Surplus for the year retained within general reserves 8,210 10,556

Group balance sheet as at 31 July 2006

2006 2005 Restated £ 000s £ 000s

Fixed assets 832,149 816,737 Endowment asset investments 201,310 183,153 Net current assets 56,830 55,632 Total assets less current liabilities 1,090,289 1,055,522

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year (63,806) (60,434) Provisions for liabilities and charges (8,059) (8,039) Pension liability (50,623) (34,094) Total net assets 967,801 952,955

Represented by: Deferred capital grants 204,650 199,976 Endowments Specifi c 197,554 179,678 General 3,756 3,475 201,310 183,153 Reserves Revaluation reserve 437,554 444,817 General reserves excluding pension liability 174,902 159,091 Pension reserve (50,623) (34,094) Total reserves 561,833 569,814

Minority interests 8 12 Total funds 967,801 952,955

The above information refl ects the audited accounts for the year to July 2006 published in December 2006. Figures for 2005 have been restated to incorporate the University share of defi cits in pension schemes which are now included in the balance sheet under Financial Reporting Standard 17. Anyone wishing further information is invited to contact the Director of Finance at the University.

59603_EdUni_AR2006 31 11/1/07 08:17:47 32 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Honorary Graduates and Other Distinctions

Those awarded honorary degrees and Alumnus of the Year between 1 August 2005 and 31 July 2006.

Professor Joseph Mr James Boyle Professor Harry Barkus Gray Felsenstein Chairman of the Cultural Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Genome Sciences, Commission, Scotland (Degree Founding Director of the University of Washington of Doctor honoris causa) Beckman Institute at California (Degree of Doctor of Science) Institute of Technology (for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science)

Professor John L Hennessy Dr Peter Greenaway Professor John Archer President of Stanford University Film director, painter and writer. Petroleum engineer and (Degree of Doctor honoris causa) Professor of Cinema Studies at Vice-Chancellor and Principal the European Graduate School of Heriot-Watt University in Saas-Fee, Switzerland (for the Honorary Degree (Degree of Doctor of Letters) of Doctor of Science)

Dr Barry Munitz Professor Nicholas Hastie Mr Nicholas M Donofrio President and Chief Executive Director of the MRC Human IBM Executive Vice-President of the J Paul Getty Trust Genetics Unit (Honorary Degree Innovation & Technology (for (Degree of Doctor honoris causa) of Doctor of Science) the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science)

Professor D Ruth Schröck Professor J Fraser Stoddart Mrs Kathleen Dalyell Chair of Nursing Science, Fred Kavli Chair in Former chair of the Royal Institute of Nursing Science, NanoSystems Sciences and Commission on Ancient and University of Witten-Herdecke, Director of the California Historical Monuments in Germany (Degree of Doctor NanoSystems Institute, Scotland (for the degree of Science in Social Science) University of California, Los of Doctor honoris causa) Angeles (for the award of the 2005 Alumnus of the Year)

Benefactors

This award recognises as University Benefactors individuals or organisations that have made signifi cant contributions, fi nancial or otherwise, to the University.

Dr Rodger Mirrey Lady Valerie Trotman (Distinction of University Benefactor) (Distinction of University Benefactor) On behalf of her late husband Lord Trotman, Dr Edwin Feulner founding Chairman of the University of Edinburgh (Distinction of University Benefactor) Campaign Board, former Chairman and Chief Executive of Ford Motor Group

59603_EdUni_AR2006 32 11/1/07 08:17:47 33 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

Mr Midge Ure OBE Mr Joe Simpson Songwriter, musical director, Mountaineer and author record producer and Band Aid (for the degree of Doctor trustee (for the Honorary honoris causa) Degree of Doctor of Music)

Professor Doreen Massey Ms Moira Stuart OBE Professor of Geography, Open Journalist and television University (for the Honorary presenter (for the degree Degree of Doctor of Science) of Doctor honoris causa)

Professor Donald McIntyre Emeritus Professor, key theorist in initial teacher education (for the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Education)

Sir John (Jackie) Stewart Former international racing driver (for the degree of Doctor honoris causa)

59603_EdUni_AR2006 33 11/1/07 08:17:51 34 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Awards

Professor Raj Bhopal Dr Alison Elliot New Year’s Honours List Professor of Public Health in Clinical Sciences Associate Director for the Centre of Theology and and Community Health, has received an honorary Public Issues and the fi rst woman moderator of Alumni names in the New Year’s Honours Doctor of Science Award from Queen Margaret the Church of Scotland, has become the fi rst list include: University College. He is an expert on holder of the James A Whyte Award for services Professor (James) Louis Appleby Legionnaires’ disease and has also received to religion, one of the Institute of Contemporary (1977 BSc (M), 1980 MB ChB), who received several distinguished prizes for his work on health Scotland’s Scots of the Year Awards. the CBE for services to Medicine in relation to the environment and ethnicity. Susan Graham Professor Patricia Broadfoot Professor Geoffrey Boulton the University’s Records Manager, has been (1977 Med), who received the CBE for services Regius Professor of Geology and Mineralogy and appointed to the position of Chair of the Society to Social Science Vice-Principal, has been awarded the Lyell Medal of Archivists. The Records Management Group of the Geological Society. The medal was fi rst of the Society of Archivists exists to raise the Professor Alan Fairlamb awarded in 1876 and its recipients are a roll call profi le of the records management profession. (1968 BSc (M), 1971 MB ChB), who received of some of the great names in geology. The other the CBE for services to Medical Science Edinburgh recipient was Sir Frederick Stewart Andrew Fitzgibbon in 1970, Professor Boulton’s predecessor in the an Edinburgh alumnus, has been awarded the Sheriff John Allan Regius Chair of Geology. The medal is named Roger Needham Award for his contributions (1962 BL), who received the OBE for services after Sir Charles Lyell, a native of Kirriemuir in to computer vision and machine learning. The to the Administration of Justice Angus, the greatest of 19th-century geologists. Roger Needham Award is made annually for a Professor Boulton was also a recipient of the distinguished research contribution in computer Professor Patricia Peattie David Tedford Award for services to science in science by a UK-based researcher within ten (1974 BSc (SS)), who received the OBE for the inaugural Scots of the Year Awards, presented years of their PhD. Andrew acquired his PhD services to Education and to Health in Scotland by the Institute of Contemporary Scotland. from Edinburgh in 1997 for his thesis on artifi cial intelligence. Ms Sally Witcher Professor Alan Bundy (1999 MSc), who received the OBE for services has won the IJCAI Award for Research Professor Anna Glasier to disabled people Excellence. This award is given to a scientist Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health at the who has carried out a programme of research University and lead clinician for Lothian Primary Mr Patrick Stirling-Aird of consistently high quality, yielding several Care NHS Trust, has received an honorary degree (1966 LLB), who received the MBE for services substantial results. This is the third award to an of Doctor of Law from the University of Dundee. to Wildlife Conservation Edinburgh artifi cial intelligence pioneer, Donald Professor Glasier is a family planning specialist, Michie and Geoffrey Hinton being past recipients. one of Scotland’s leading ‘well woman’ experts Mr John Wilder MBE Alan Bundy is the only researcher to have won and a Director and Consultant for the Family (1962 MA), who received the MBE for services both the IJCAI Award for Research Excellence Planning and Well Woman Services for Edinburgh to Education and the IJCAI Donald E Walker Distinguished and Lothian. Service Award. IJCAI is the International Joint Ms Naomi Clapham Conference on Artifi cial Intelligence, the main Nina Rzechorzek (1967 BSc (SS)), who received the MBE for international gathering of researchers and a Physiology Honours student, has been awarded services to the British Community in Algeria practitioners in artifi cial intelligence. the World Leadership Forum Award for the Best Biology or Biotechnology Student, which is judged Professor Sarah Cunningham-Burley by the Institute of Biology. The prestigious prize, Professor of Medical and Family Sociology and part of the 2005 Science, Engineering & Co-Director of the Centre for Research on Families Technology Student of the Year (SET) Awards, was and Relationships, has been appointed to the presented to Nina for her project “Elafi n sculptures Human Genetics Commission. The Human the local and contralateral ovine pulmonary Genetics Commission is the UK government’s response to LPS”. advisory body on developments in human genetics and their impact. Professor Cunningham- Professor Aziz Sheikh Burley will be involved in public engagement Professor of Primary Care Research and activities and in chairing the working group Development, has received the 2005 Royal on genetic databases. College of General Practitioners (RGCP) Boots the Chemist Research Paper of the Year Award for Professor Tom Devine his work on a study of children with conjunctivitis. has received the John Aitkenhead Award for Professor Sheikh and colleagues from other services to education as part of the Institute universities published a paper which concluded of Contemporary Scotland’s Scots of the Year that most children who have the eye infection get awards. The inaugural awards acknowledge and better by themselves and do not require treatment recognise the achievements of individuals in 12 with an antibiotic. areas of modern-day Scotland. Professor Devine was also awarded an honorary degree from his alma mater, the University of Strathclyde.

59603_EdUni_AR2006 34 11/1/07 08:17:53 35 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

Queen’s Birthday Honours List Alumnus of the Year 2005 Chancellor’s Awards 2005 Professor Jean Duthie Beggs Professor J Fraser Stoddart These awards are presented in recognition of has received the CBE for services to science. Professor Fraser Stoddart received the Alumnus innovation, relevance, creativity and personal Professor Beggs is a Professor of Molecular of the Year award at a graduation ceremony at dedication. They are presented by HRH Prince Biology at the University. In the late 1970s the University in June. He received his BSc (1964) Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Chancellor of the Professor Beggs made a key contribution and PhD (1966) degrees from the University of University, at a dinner in the Palace of Holyroodhouse. to the development of yeast molecular genetics Edinburgh. He was also awarded a DSc degree in adapting the yeast two micron plasmid, a small by the University in 1980 for his research into Professor Jean Beggs, of the School of Biological circular DNA molecule that exists independently stereochemistry beyond the molecule. Sciences, won her award for her work on of the yeast chromosomes, as a cloning vector molecular genetics. She has had an exceptional (an agent that transfers genetic material from one Professor Stoddart is one of the few chemists of research career which included developing the cell to another) and she was one of the fi rst the past quarter century to have created a new fi rst cloning vector for transferring genes between researchers to achieve transformation of yeast fi eld of organic chemistry – namely, one in which bacteria and eukaryotic cells, making it possible with DNA. In 1998 she was made a Fellow of the the mechanical bond is a pre-eminent feature of for the fi rst time to extend recombinant DNA work Royal Society, and in 2003 she won the Gabor molecular compounds. to eukaryotes – in this case yeast, the organism Medal, which is a biennial prize that acknowledges which Professor Beggs has utilised throughout distinction in the work of the life sciences, His work has been recognised by many awards, her career. particularly genetic engineering and molecular including the Carbohydrate Chemistry Award of biology. Professor Beggs also won a Chancellor’s the Chemical Society (1978), the International Dr Jane Dawson won her award for her Award in 2005 (see below). Izatt-Christensen Award in Macrocyclic Chemistry development of innovative e-Learning techniques (1993), the American Chemical Society’s Cope in the School of Divinity. Her ground-breaking work Professor Nicholas Hastie Scholar Award (1999), and the Nagoya Gold combines e-Teaching strategies with traditional Director of the Human Genetics Unit at the Medal in Organic Chemistry (2004). teaching, and she has also worked hard to ensure Medical Research Council, has received the CBE that a wealth of primary historical evidence is for services to science. The Unit undertakes basic He is currently on the international advisory boards being placed on the University’s website for open and strategic research to obtain a molecular and of numerous journals and is a Fellow of the Royal access learning. cellular understanding of genetic factors implicated Society (1994), the German Academy of Natural in human disease and normal and abnormal Sciences (1999), and the American Association development. Professor Hastie was awarded for the Advancement of Science (2005). an honorary degree by the University in 2006. He was made an Honorary Professor at the East Professor James Wilson Ironside China University of Science and Technology in has received the CBE for services to Medicine. Shanghai. He also held the Carnegie Centenary He is a Professor of Clinical Neuropathology at the Visiting Professorship at the Scottish Universities University’s National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in 2005, and has been awarded named Surveillance Unit and a member of the Centre for lectureships by many universities worldwide. Infectious Diseases. Professor Ironside was Director of the National CJD Surveillance Unit from Professor Stoddart is Director of the CNSI 2002–2004 and was the Deputy Chairman of (California NanoSystems Institute) at UCLA SEAC, the advisory body to the UK government (University of California at Los Angeles) and holds on prion diseases, from 2002–2005. He has also the Fred Kavli Chair of NanoSystems Sciences. acted as an expert advisor to the UK Department of Health on the risks of transmission of CJD by blood, blood products and surgical instruments.

Professor Mary Bownes Vice-Principal for Widening Participation, Recruitment & Admissions and Community Relations and a Professor of Development Biology at the University, has received an OBE for services to Science. Professor Bownes joined the University in 1979 as Lecturer in Molecular Biology. She was appointed Personal Chair of Developmental Biology, was Associate Dean for Postgraduates in the Faculty of Science and Engineering from 1997–1998, Head of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology from 1998–2001, and was appointed as Vice-Principal for Widening Participation, Recruitment and Admissions and Community Relations in 2003. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Biology, the Royal Entomological Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Her research is focused on reproduction in Drosophila and mouse.

59603_EdUni_AR2006 35 11/1/07 08:17:54 36 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Appointments

Appointments commenced between August 2005 and July 2006.

College of Science & Engineering Honorary Professorships Professor Julian Jones Engineering & Electronics Personal Chairs Professor Howard Baker Professor Sergei Kuksin Engineering & Electronics Dr Chris Williams Mathematics Personal Chair of Machine Learning Professor G Brebner Professor Andrew Lacey Informatics Dr Ian Underwood Mathematics Personal Chair of Electronic Displays Professor Ken Brown Professor David Lane Mathematics Dr Stuart West Engineering & Electronics Personal Chair of Evolutionary Biology Professor Andrew Cairns Professor Colin MacBeth Mathematics Dr Sandy Tudhope GeoSciences Personal Chair of Climate Studies Dr N Cape Professor Angus Macdonald Chemistry Dr Josephine Pemberton Mathematics Personal Chair of Molecular Ecology Professor Jack Carr Professor Markus Newborough Mathematics Dr Lesley Yellowlees Engineering & Electronics Personal Chair of Inorganic Electrochemistry Professor Mike Chantler Professor Derryck Reid Engineering & Electronics Dr Jacek Gondzio Engineering & Electronics Personal Chair of Optimization Professor Mike Christie Professor Bob Reuben GeoSciences Dr Steve Playfer Engineering & Electronics Personal Chair of Experimental Particle Physics Professor Patrick Corbett Professor Alan Sangster GeoSciences Dr Jon Oberlander Engineering & Electronics Personal Chair of Epistemics Professor Ali Danesh Professor Jonathan Sherratt GeoSciences Dr Jane Jacobs Mathematics Personal Chair of Cultural Geography Professor Dugald Duncan Professor John Side Mathematics Dr Judith Allen Engineering & Electronics Personal Chair of Immunobiology Professor Chris Eilbeck Professor B Smart Mathematics Dr Jin Ooi Engineering & Electronics Personal Chair of Particulate Solid Mechanics Professor John Ford Professor K Smith GeoSciences Dr José Figueroa-O’Farrill GeoSciences Personal Chair of Geometric Physics Professor Serguei Foss Professor Ken Sorbie Mathematics Dr Nick Read GeoSciences Personal Chair of Fungal Cell Biology Professor Ian Galbraith Professor Richard Szabo Engineering & Electronics Dr Richard Ball Mathematics Personal Chair of Mathematical Physics Professor Gavin Gibson Professor Adrian Todd Mathematics Dr Hamish McNab GeoSciences Personal Chair of Heterocyclic Chemistry Professor Denis Hall Professor Bahman Tohidi Engineering & Electronics Professor Ian Halliday GeoSciences Personal Chair of Physics Professor Duncan Hand Professor Andrew Walker Engineering & Electronics Engineering & Electronics Professorships Professor J Hendler Professor Andrew Wallace Informatics Professor Ian Bryden Engineering & Electronics Chair of Renewable Energy Professor Jim Howie Professor Richard Warburton Mathematics Dr Andrea Schaefer Engineering & Electronics Chair of Environmental Engineering Professor Des Johnston Professor Howard Waters Mathematics Dr Andrew Huxley Mathematics Chair of Physics in Quantum Ordering at Extreme Conditions Dr Michael Davies Jeffrey Collins Chair of Signal and Image Processing Professor Leonid Libkin Chair of Foundations of Data Management

59603_EdUni_AR2006 36 11/1/07 08:17:54 37 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

College of Medicine & Professorships Professorships Veterinary Medicine Professor John Iredale Professor Hans M Barstad Personal Chairs Chair of Medicine Chair of Hebrew and Old Testament Studies Professor David Dewhurst Professor David Argyle Professor Natascha Gentz Personal Chair in Student Learning (e-Learning) William Dick Chair of Vet Clinical Studies Chair of Chinese Dr Robert Minns Professor Mark Woolhouse Professor Judith Green Personal Chair in Paediatric Neurology Chair of Infectious Disease Epidemiology (previously Chair in Medieval History in the Chair of Vet Public Health and Quantitative Dr David Newby Professor Abhay Abhyankar Epidemiology) Personal Chair in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Baillie Gifford Chair of Financial Markets Medicine Professor Marie Fallon Professor Thomas Devine St Columba’s Chair in Palliative Medicine Dr Sarah Cunningham-Burley Sir William Fraser Chair of Scottish History Personal Chair in the Sociology of Health and Medicine Professor Scott Murray Professor Simon Frith St Columba’s Chair in Primary Palliative Care Professor Donald Salter Tovey Chair of Music Personal Chair in Osteoarticular Pathology Professor Tony Harmar Professor Robert Lingard Chair of Pharmacology (previously held a Personal Dr Sarah Howie The Bell Chair of Education Chair in Molecular Pharmacology) Personal Chair in Immunopathology Professor Jill Schofi eld Dr Andrew Jarman Professor Stuart Forbes Somers Chair of Health Care Management Personal Chair in Developmental Cell Biology Chair in Transplantation and Regenerative Medicine Professor Lizbeth Stanley Dr Richard Ribchester Chair of Sociology Personal Chair in Cellular Neuroscience Professor Richard Taffl er Professor John Savill College of Humanities & Martin Currie Chair of Finance and Investment Personal Chair in Experimental Medicine Social Science Professor Stephen Yearly (previously in existing established Chair of Medicine) Personal Chairs Chair in Sociology of Scientifi c Knowledge Professor Robert Will Professor Timothy Lim Personal Chair in Clinical Neurology Personal Chair in Hebrew and Second Temple Honorary Professorships Honorary Professorships Judaism Professor Sandy Robertson Professor Peter Nelson School of Social & Political Studies Professor Hamish Fraser Personal Chair in Music and Technology Professor Gaby Weiner Clinical Sciences and Community Health Professor Jeff Haywood Moray House School of Education Professor Richard Baldock Personal Chair in Education and Technology Professor Charlene Harrington Molecular and Clinical Medicine Professor Rosemary Mander School of Health in Social Science Dr Nick Bateman Personal Chair in Midwifery Professor Colin Leys Molecular and Clinical Medicine Professor Viviene Cree School of Health in Social Science Dr Harry Griffi n Personal Chair of Social Work Education Dr David Breeze Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies Professor Ed Hopkins School of History & Classics Professor Philippa Saunders Personal Chair in Economics Clinical Sciences and Community Health Professor Randall Stevenson Professor Mike Ford Personal Chair in Twentieth Century Literature Molecular and Clinical Medicine Professor Paul Nugent Personal Chair of Comparative African History Professor R Mackenney Personal Chair of Italian Renaissance History Professor Tony Wilkinson Personal Chair in Near Eastern Archaeology

59603_EdUni_AR2006 37 11/1/07 08:17:55 38 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Appendix 1

1. Undergraduate applications and acceptances

2003 year of entry 2004 year of entry 2005 year of entry Men Women Total Men Women Total Men Women Total

Applications* 14,578 17,869 32,447 16,692 20,386 37,078 18,767 22,959 41,726

Places taken up 1,836 2,344 4,180 1,908 2,439 4,347 2,043 2,477 4,520

Notes: *Figures defi ned as number of applications received in each cycle for entry in the same year or deferred entry for following year.

59603_EdUni_AR2006 38 11/1/07 08:17:55 39 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Appendix 2

2. Student numbers

2.1 Student headcount by level of study and gender

Undergraduate Postgraduate Taught Postgraduate Research Grand Total 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06

Female 9,570 10,011 10,424 1,681 1,640 1,655 1,287 1,485 1,485 12,538 13,136 13,574

Male 7,393 7,522 7,855 1,172 1,149 1,169 1,724 1,899 1,870 10,289 10,570 10,894

Grand Total 16,963 17,533 18,279 2,853 2,789 2,834 3,011 3,384 3,355 22,827 23,706 24,468

2.2 Student headcount by college

Undergraduate Postgraduate Taught Postgraduate Research Grand Total 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06

Humanities and Social Science 9,906 10,565 11,012 2,318 2,249 2,226 1,081 1,198 1,200 13,305 14,012 14,438

Medicine and Veterinary Medicine 1,923 1,818 1,974 126 99 113 795 907 881 2,844 2,824 2,968

Science and Engineering 5,134 5,150 5,293 409 441 495 1,135 1,279 1,274 6,678 6,870 7,062

Grand Total 16,963 17,533 18,279 2,853 2,789 2,834 3,011 3,384 3,355 22,827 23,706 24,468

59603_EdUni_AR2006 39 11/1/07 08:17:56 40 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Appendix 2

2.3 Student headcount by domicile region

Undergraduate Postgraduate Taught Postgraduate Research Grand Total 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06

Scotland 7,815 8,199 8,518 1,561 1,413 1,374 1,248 1,367 1,443 10,624 10,979 11,335

Other UK 6,498 6,520 6,781 276 302 319 557 622 591 7,331 7,444 7,691

EU (non-UK) 1,099 1,143 1,168 328 365 341 409 504 491 1,836 2,012 2,000

International 1,551 1,671 1,812 688 709 800 797 891 830 3,036 3,271 3,442

Grand Total 16,963 17,533 18,260 2,853 2,789 2,831 3,011 3,384 3,353 22,827 23,706 24,468

2.4 Student headcount by domicile for top 10 non-UK domicile countries in 2005/06

Undergraduate Postgraduate Taught Postgraduate Research Grand Total 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06

USA 608 712 817 109 129 164 180 192 158 897 1,033 1,139

People’s Republic of China 134 164 158 170 222 219 93 122 121 397 508 498

Germany 228 202 189 55 61 53 63 73 78 346 336 320

Greece 93 77 67 97 114 113 117 132 113 307 323 293

Republic of Ireland 101 140 145 53 48 45 48 51 52 202 239 242

France 153 161 168 24 23 15 30 38 41 207 222 224

Canada 108 118 76 44 40 39 54 58 47 206 216 162

Malaysia 88 94 101 12 16 10 29 37 33 129 147 144

Italy 69 60 64 14 16 17 50 62 58 133 138 139

Spain 70 69 69 17 22 21 32 39 38 119 130 128

59603_EdUni_AR2006 40 11/1/07 08:17:56 41 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Appendix 3

Benefactions (This list refl ects giving from 1 August 2005 to 31 July 2006)

Elsie Inglis The late Mr Thomas Hunter Dr Gordon Chau (£1,000–£4,999) Mr Paul Fairbairn Chevron Texaco Corp* A M Pilkington’s Charitable Trust Jacobs Babtie Dr James Compton* Aberdeen Asset Management Dr Brian Jamieson The late Rev Thomas D Cross Mr Harry Allan Jennifer Brown Research Fund Donors* Cuminga Saga Trust The American Friends of the Dr Michael Jesudason* The late Mr Philip N Cutner University of Edinburgh Dr John Johnson Mr Richard & Mrs Velda Davidson AR & KM MacLaren Trust Dr Samba Jung* Mrs Joyce Denny Mr & Mrs Allan Auchnie Dr and Dr Leitch The Henry Drucker Fund Dr Alastair Berry Leng Charitable Trust Dziniak Charitable Trust for Animals Professor Colin C Bird Dr Halina Lewicka Edinburgh University History Graduates Mr Robin Blair The late Dr John Lundie Association Dr Clive Bouch Mrs Rachel M Lyon Dean Mr Simon Fennell* The Boyle Family The late Miss G Mackenzie Mr Nicholas E Ferguson The Brightside Trust The late Mr Donald F MacKenzie Mr Ian A Godden The Hon Lord Brodie MBNA The late Dr Philip Kessly Miss Veronica Byers Dr and Mrs Dermot W McKeown Professor Carl Kjeldsberg* Mr Ewen Cameron Mr John D McNeil Mrs Bridget Macaskill* The Rt Hon Lord Cameron of Lochbroom Mr and Mrs David M Millar Dr Isobel Mackay Professor John W Cassels Professor Emeritus and Mrs J L Monteith Mr Gordon R McCulloch Ms Amanda Chandler The late Mr William Munro Sir Francis McWilliams Mr John Clare The Ogden Trust Mr David Miller and Ms Tina Marinos Dr F Clark and Dr M Clark Dr Marie Ogilvie Ms Anne & Mr Matthew Richards Miss Sharon Collins Professor Byung-Sun Oh Mr Peter Robertson* Professor William Constable* Dr Josephine Pemberton The late Miss Margaret Roddan Mr Stephen Cowden Dr Fabien A P Petitcolas Mr and Mrs Ian M Russell Dr Tom Crawford Petroleum Exploration Society of GB Ruth Adler Trust Professor Hilary Critchley Dr William Robertson Mrs Kirtie Sant Dr David Cross & Dr Laura Cross The Rt Hon Lord Ross The late Dr Alice Scott Cruden Foundation Limited Sir William and Lady Ryrie Dr Joseph Stanislaw* Mr and Mrs David Cruickshank The late Dr Theodore Salvesen Mr David D Stevenson The Rt Hon Lord Cullen of Whitekirk Scottish Natural Heritage The late Mrs Lydia Cutner Sheila and Denis Cohen Charitable Trust James Young Simpson Dr Maria Dlugolecka-Graham Mr Richard Shelton (£10,000–£49,999) Dr Patricia Donald Mr Kenichi Shoji* A G Leventis Foundation Dr Tom Crawford A Sinclair Henderson Trust Barham Benevolent Foundation Mr and Mrs Goetz Eggelhoefer Miss Betty Slesser Binks Trust Professor Emeritus John A Ewing* Small Animal Hospital Donors The late Rev Professor Alexander Cheyne Dr Roualeyn Fenton-May* Dr Isabella Smith The Combe Trust Franklin Templeton Investments Ms Bridget M Stevens Dr Neil Cross The Geological Society of Glasgow Swan Hellenic Cruises The late Dr James Curr Mr Gordon Fraser* Thales MESL Ltd Foundation for Canadian Studies Dr Peter Gibb Dr John Thomas* Mr Malcolm Gourlay Ms Marlene Gilchrist Mr and Mrs Benjamin Thomson Dr and Mrs Anthony B Hayward Mr and Mrs Crawford S Gillies Mr David Wardlaw Dr James D Hoeschele* GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited Dr Jack Watters and Mr Ian Archer Watters* Dr Jessie Houston* Goldman Sachs & Co* The Webster Trust Professor Jane Hutton Mr Morton Gould The Westminster Foundation Lady Eda Jardine Charitable Trust Mrs Sheila M Greatrex* Mr Scott Wilson The late Miss Mary Kratter Drs Kenneth and Mary Hall The late Professor Peter Wilson Mr Gregor R Logan Dr Mary Hall Mr David Wood Dr Alastair Macdonald Dr Graham Hamilton* Dr Patricia Mackay Dr Roy Harris Sir Walter Scott Mr Roger Miller Mr Andrew Hart (£5,000–£9,999) Dr Rodger Mirrey HEFCE Mr and Mrs Iain Allan Mr David O Mitchell Professor William Hill Barclays Capital Mr Steven Morrison Mr James Hunter Mr Michael Barron The late Dr John Mullan

59603_EdUni_AR2006 41 11/1/07 08:17:56 42 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Appendix 3

Benefactions, continued

Professor Timothy O’Shea Mr Thomas L Barclay Ms Elisabeth Mackie and Professor Eileen Scanlon Mr Hilary W Barlow Dr Hugh Macleod The late Dr William Rankine Mr John R Bergman Dr Mary Macleod Mr Martin Ritchie Mr Robert J Bideleux Dr Peter Madden Row Fogo Charitable Trust Miss N C Brocklesby Mrs Dorothea G McCabe Mr Ian F Rushbrook Mr William Brown Ms Anna M McCracken Mr Christopher Stone Mr Alistair Brownlie Mr John E McDowell Dr George Sypert & Dr Joy Arpin Sypert* Ms Shona Campbell Moller Dr Leemon McHenry T B Macaulay Trust Mr Kenneth Cargill Miss Tracy McWilliam Mrs Carolyn Thornton Dr Szu-Chin Chen Mr George Miller Mr David and Mrs Terri Warnock Dr Arthur Clark Mrs Jane Miller Mr Peter Williams Dr Drew Clark Mrs Zelda H Millward Sir Gordon Wu Dr Vicki Clark Dr Clare-Louise Morgan The Zachs Adam Family Fund* Dr Thomas Crichton Dr John Nash Dr H J C Crombie Smith Dr Margaret Newton James Clerk Maxwell Mr John A Da Costa Miss Gladys Ogilvy-Shepherd (£50,000 and over) Mr John Davidson Dr Niall O’Loughlin Dr Alfred and Dr Isabel Bader* Ms Evelyn M Degnen Mrs Jocelyn O’Loughlin The late Miss Janet Balston Rev John Drummond Mrs Karen E Palframan Bransby Home of Rest for Horses Mrs Rhoda M Dunbar Dr Alistair Penman Mr Richard Burns Professor Neil J Duncan Dr John Pollock Coca-Cola Foundation* Mr John Egbuniwe Dr Herbert John Powell Council of American Overseas Research Centers Dr Robin Ewart Mr H Douglas Prain Mr George A David Dr Seena Fazel Mrs M Ractliffe DSG International Mrs K Joyce Ferguson Mr Paul Rank The late Mrs Barbara Duncan Professor Robin Ferrier Dr Pauline Robertson Rev Robert Funk* Miss Eleanor Fleming The Rt Hon Lord Ross The late Miss Annie Hopkins Mr Richard Forrest Miss Lesley Scoular Mary Kinross Charitable Trust Rev Professor Duncan Forrester Dr Zbigniew Sharnagiel The Kresge Foundation Mrs Alena Fraser Dr Derek Simpson The late Dr Daniel MacLagan Dr Ellis Fraser Dr Alan Skelley Martin Currie Investment Management Limited Dr Arthur French Mrs Joan Slagt Professor David Milne Professor O James Garden Miss Betty Slesser Professor Walter and Dr Norma Nimmo Dr Christopher Gillespie Mr Gordon Smith Miss Gladys Ogilvy-Shepherd Miss Lesley Gilliat Mr Ian G Smith The late Dr Mary Paterson Mrs Alison Gillies Mr James Sommerville The late Mrs Helen L Philip Mr Crawford S Gillies Miss Elinor Steel The late Miss Elizabeth Pirie Dr Sarah Gray Mrs Ruth Stevenson Mrs Minnie Riddell-Swan Miss Catherine Grubb Mr Ronald Storey The late Dr Isabella Sharpe Mr Richard Grylls Dr Nigel Suess The late Mr Hans Silberstein Mrs Kathleen Hancock Mr Dudley H Swain The late Mr Stephen Somers* Mr James W Harkness Dr George Sypert and Dr Joy Arpin Sypert Lady Trotman and the late Lord Trotman* Mrs Haydee-Anne Hatzel Rev Dr Anne Tomlinson The University of Edinburgh USA Dr Andrew Henderson Mr John Torday Development Trust Mr Raymond Herbert Mrs B B Wade The late Dr Lloyd Werden Mr Edward Hicks Dr Jean Walinck The late Mr Robert Wilson Ms Jill Hughes Mr Damian Warburton The Wolfson Foundation Dr Eric Jackson Mr Andrew G Webb Mr Norman P Jackson Mrs Katharine White Carlyle Circle Dr James Jardine Mrs Jean Whittaker (Pledged legacy between 1 July 2005 and 31 August 2006) Ms A M Jenkinson Dr Kenneth Wilkie Dr Peter Adams Dr Elizabeth Koepping Mrs Diana S Wyatt Mrs Jean Anthony Dr Stuart Laing Mrs Judith Young Dr James Arbuckle Mr Robert Landells Mr Peter J Young Mr & Mrs William Arnold Mrs Elizabeth Laycock Dr Jerry Lim *denotes donors to The University of Edinburgh USA Development Trust Ms Llyn Marie Austin Inc, an independent organisation formed to advance the purpose of the Professor Michael Banton Mrs Jennifer Louis University of Edinburgh.

59603_EdUni_AR2006 42 11/1/07 08:17:57 43 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Appendix 4

Research grants and other sources of funding

1. From charities, industry and other institutions

Sponsor type Sponsor name Award total £ Sponsor type Sponsor name Award total £ Charity Agilent Technologies Foundation £16,216 Charity Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh £187,942 Charity Alzheimer’s Society £179,000 Charity Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh £122,120 Charity Anatomical Society of Great Britain & Ireland £51,255 Charity RSPCA £8,000 Charity Arthritis Research Campaign £393,425 Charity Sail Training International £70,220 Charity Association for International Cancer Research £205,131 Charity Salvesen Research Trust £100,187 Charity Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland £22,114 Charity Scotland Inheritance Fund £565,337 Charity Asthma UK £153,044 Charity Scottish Youth Dance £48,354 Charity Barnardo’s £16,000 Charity SHERT £405,420 Charity Biochemical Society £1,320 Charity Society for Reproduction and Fertility £1,320 Charity British Heart Foundation £2,255,925 Charity Society General Microbiology £1,715 Charity British Medical Association £27,737 Charity Sustrans £10,007 Charity Caledonian Research Foundation £125,681 Charity Tenovus – Scotland £32,250 Charity Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation £6,000 Charity The Church of Scotland £2,000 Charity Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre £20,500 Charity The Health Foundation £651,282 Charity Cancer Research UK £2,543,473 Charity The Mind Association £7,400 Charity Canine Health Foundation £29,048 Charity The Premature Baby Charity (BLISS) £51,528 Charity Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland £9,890 Charity The Tapestry Partnership £156,308 Charity Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland £98,079 Charity Wellcome Trust £23,898,967 Charity Communication Workers Union £4,278 European Union – other American School of Classical Studies at Athens £9,872 Charity Cunningham Trust £140,000 European Union – other Anglo–German Foundation £133,486 Charity Cystic Fibrosis Trust £165,870 European Union – other Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft £33,105 Charity Diabetes Research and Wellness Foundation (US) £29,061 European Union – other Foundation for Science & Technology (Portugal) £8,427 Charity Diabetes UK £258,528 European Union – other German Research Foundation £38,573 Charity Donkey Sanctuary £22,000 European Union – other Human Frontier Science Program Organization £97,291 Charity European Society for Vascular Surgery £10,204 European Union – other INERIS Limited £50,000 Charity European Society of Anaesthesiology £9,424 European Union – other Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin £38,710 Charity Fergus Maclay Leukaemia Trust £125,321 Industry – European G E Healthcare, Finland £308,734 Charity Foundation for Skin Research £39,544 Industry – European GeoForschungsZentrum £110,484 Charity Glasgow Mathematical Journal Trust £1,000 Industry – European Honda Research Institute Europe £22,200 Charity Grass Sickness Fund £20,000 Industry – overseas Agilent £41,666 Charity Historic Scotland £817 Industry – overseas Asilomar Pharmaceuticals, Inc £13,582 Charity Home of Rest for Horses £80,000 Industry – overseas BBN Corporation £99,564 Charity Hypertension Trust £60,255 Industry – overseas Genentech £321,888 Charity Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland £1,906 Industry – overseas Hoffmann–La Roche Inc £13,500 Charity James Madison Trust £158,846 Industry – overseas Intel Corporation £35,100 Charity Joseph Rowntree Foundation £61,622 Industry – overseas Invitrogen Corporation £88,000 Charity Jules Thorn Charitable Trust £10,000 Industry – overseas Merck Inc £1,246 Charity Leukaemia Research Fund £791,565 Industry – overseas TAP Pharmaceutical Products Inc £93,862 Charity Leverhulme Trust £1,181,468 Industry – UK ADAS Consulting Ltd £2,101 Charity Loeb Classical Library Foundation £1,026 Industry – UK Apatech £15,000 Charity London Mathematical Society £4,900 Industry – UK Applied Research & Technology Limited £19,821 Charity Lothian NHS Endowments £54,252 Industry – UK ARC International (UK) plc £21,710 Charity Macmillan Cancer Relief £85,000 Industry – UK Astra Zeneca £39,600 Charity Melville Trust £111,869 Industry – UK Bayer plc £81,081 Charity National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression £30,089 Industry – UK Bristol–Myers Squibb £130,812 Charity National Cancer Research Institute £1,899,999 Industry – UK Building Research Establishment £669,000 Charity National Kidney Research Fund £170,547 Industry – UK BUPA, Murrayfi eld Hospital £160,000 Charity Norman Salvesen Emphysema Research Trust £27,071 Industry – UK Chirotech Technology Ltd £11,700 Charity NSPCC £12,522 Industry – UK Cyclacel Ltd £58,820 Charity Nuffi eld Foundation £10,010 Industry – UK DEM Solutions Ltd £44,078 Charity Parkinson’s Disease Society £150,000 Industry – UK DTZ Pieda £7,000 Charity Perrott–Warwick Fund £37,500 Industry – UK FM Global £53,000 Charity PPP Healthcare Medical Trust £21,000 Industry – UK Formpave Ltd £30,000 Charity Prostate Research Campaign £40,000 Industry – UK Fuji Imaging Colorants Ltd £36,000 Charity Ramsay Memorial Fellowships Trust £68,663 Industry – UK GlaxoSmithKline £110,079 Charity Research into Ageing £250,051 Industry – UK GR Advanced Materials Ltd £48,660

59603_EdUni_AR2006 43 11/1/07 08:17:57 44 The University of Edinburgh Annual Review 2005/06 www.ed.ac.uk

2005/06 Appendix 4

Research grants and other sources of funding, continued

2. From research councils and other government agencies

Sponsor type Sponsor name Award total £ Sponsor type Sponsor name Award total £ Industry – UK Infi neum UK Ltd £21,000 Research Council AHRC £1,188,973 Industry – UK Intrallect Ltd £4,500 Research Council BBSRC £7,855,822 Industry – UK KODAK £22,451 Research Council CCLRC £85,334 Industry – UK LUX Biotechnology Ltd £4,950 Research Council EPSRC £23,033,340 Industry – UK Melrose Resources plc £48,000 Research Council ESRC £2,350,431 Industry – UK MicroMass UK Ltd £13,500 Research Council MRC £12,720,540 Industry – UK Microsoft Research Ltd £120,000 Research Council NERC £4,993,316 Industry – UK Mobile VCE £438,514 Research Council PPARC £3,506,806 Industry – UK Network Rail £36,500 Research Council Research Councils United Kingdom £125,000 Industry – UK Nortel £15,000 European Union – government European Community £16,351,055 Industry – UK Pfi zer Ltd £90,000 Government BGS £24,000 Industry – UK Polymer Laboratories Ltd £3,910 Government Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland £15,709 Industry – UK Roche £16,000 Government British Council £3,200 Industry – UK Royal Bank of Scotland £43,200 Government Chief Scientist Offi ce – Scotland £20,437 Industry – UK Samsung £90,000 Government Communities Scotland £27,681 Industry – UK Schlumberger £10,500 Government Countryside Agency £1,465 Industry – UK Shell £68,300 Government CSO £3,116,190 Industry – UK Spiral Gateway Ltd £26,000 Government Deer Commission for Scotland £76,057 Industry – UK Stryker International £225,000 Government Defence Science and Technology Laboratory £38,351 Industry – UK The Concrete Centre Ltd £28,000 Government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs £1,179,986 Industry – UK The Inside Line Ltd £21,600 Government Department of Health £317,423 Industry – UK Triton Electronics Ltd £29,940 Government DFID £363,159 Industry – UK Unilever £35,000 Government DTI £49,923 Industry – UK Vexcel £60,420 Government Food Standards Agency £8,320 Industry – UK Watson Stonecraft Ltd £49,034 Government Horserace Betting Levy Board £27,850 Learned Society British Academy £449,329 Government ITI Techmedia £4,268,569 Learned Society Royal Society £1,974,891 Government Joint Information Systems Committee £372,315 Learned Society Royal Society of Chemistry £2,500 Government Knowledge Transfer Partnership £328,600 Learned Society Royal Society of Edinburgh £387,162 Government Macaulay Institute £28,500 Overseas charities Iran Heritage Foundation £3,000 Government Meteorological Offi ce £71,392 Overseas charities Mayo Foundation £50,563 Government National External Quality Assessment Service £7,707 Overseas charities Merck, Sharp and Dohme (MSD) Research Foundation £22,140 Government Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education £20,000 Overseas charities Morris Animal Foundation £73,954 Government Scottish Enterprise £270,732 Overseas charities Novartis Foundation £56,888 Government Scottish Executive £2,521,229 Overseas charities WHO £10,811 Government Scottish Executive Education Department £475,603 Overseas government National Aeronautics & Space Administration £18,251 Government Scottish Funding Council £515,104 Overseas government National Institutes of Health £224,755 Government Scottish Further Education Unit £14,000 Overseas government Teagasc £10,967 Government Scottish Natural Heritage £182,842 Overseas other Food and Agricultural Organisation £21,622 Government Scottish Qualifi cations Authority £24,854 Overseas other Georgetown University £55,828 Government Strategic Promotion of Ageing Research Capacity £17,541 Overseas other HEC Montreal £2,084 Health authorities East Renfrewshire £6,817 Overseas other Japan Foundation Endowment Committee £2,560 Health authorities Glasgow Centre for Population Health £23,730 Overseas other University of Bergen £260 Health authorities Greater Glasgow NHS Board £113,120 Overseas other University of Minnesota £59,544 Health authorities NHS Lothian Hospital Trust £598,688 Overseas other University of Montreal £7,916 Health authorities NHS R&D £42,551 Overseas other University of Washington £18,190 Health authorities NHS Scotland £1,809,488 Total from charities, industry and other institutions £46,692,689 Health authorities SNBTS £196,159 Universities etc Centre for Integrated Healthcare Research £43,547 Universities etc Edinburgh College of Art £28,041 Universities etc Edinburgh Mathematical Society £750 Universities etc Higher Education Academy £7,659 Universities etc Imperial College, London £17,286 Universities etc Institute of Education, University of London £800 Universities etc University Association for Contemporary European Studies £850 Universities etc University College London £71,979 Universities etc University of Aberdeen £134,552 Universities etc University of Cambridge £110,000 Universities etc University of Dundee £923,704 Universities etc University of Essex £25,678 Universities etc University of Glasgow £244,155 Universities etc University of Leeds £148,608 Universities etc University of Liverpool £59,789 Universities etc University of Nottingham £125,215 Universities etc University of Oxford £9,300 Universities etc University of Reading £56,713 Universities etc University of Southampton £791,322 Universities etc University of Stirling £229,370 Universities etc University of Strathclyde £262,997 Universities etc University of Warwick £2,655 Universities etc University of Cardiff £98,663 Total from research councils and other government agencies £92,783,542 Grand Total £139,476,231

59603_EdUni_AR2006 44 11/1/07 08:17:58