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The University of Manchester Degree Congregations December 2011 The Inauguration of The University of Manchester At midnight on 30 September 2004, UMIST and the Victoria University of Manchester were dissolved and the single institution of The University of Manchester came into existence. The formal Inauguration of the University took place on Friday, 22 October 2004 when Her Majesty The Queen visited the campus to personally present the University’s new Royal Charter to Co-Chancellor Anna Ford at a special ceremony held in the Whitworth Hall. The new institution has a distinguished heritage. It can trace its roots back to the formation of the Manchester Mechanics Institute in 1824, which later became UMIST. The Victoria University of Manchester was founded as Owens College in 1851 and became England’s first civic university in 1880. The two universities first began working together almost 100 years ago. They were situated on neighbouring campuses and this enabled them to develop a number of joint courses, departments and services. They took the decision to merge in 2003. The creation of The University of Manchester has been hailed as one of the boldest and most ambitious initiatives in higher education. This pioneering spirit carries on today, with the aim to become one of the world’s top 25 universities by 2015 backed by an ongoing £650 million investment programme in staff and facilities – the largest such investment programme in British higher education. From the President and Vice-Chancellor I welcome you all –graduands, family members and friends – to The University of Manchester for this degree congregation. This is a time of celebration for all of us and I very much hope that you find it an enjoyable occasion. As each graduand is presented for conferment of their degree, the University shares with you all a great sense of pride in the award they have worked so hard to attain. For those of you graduating today, these ceremonies mark not the end of your relationship with the University but the start of a new stage. It is my hope that the links between the University and you will grow ever stronger and I look forward to you becoming an active member of the University’s alumni body. I wish you every success for the future and that you all have a truly memorable day. Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell President and Vice-Chancellor 1 The University of Manchester The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences The Faculty of Life Sciences The Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences is large and The Faculty of Life Sciences is one of the largest and most successful comprehensive with nine component schools: Chemical Engineering and unified research and teaching organisations of its kind in Europe. Analytical Science; Chemistry; Computer Science; Earth, Atmospheric and With more than 1,000 people involved in research, 1,500 undergraduate Environmental Sciences; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Materials; students and an annual budget in excess of £100 million, the Faculty Mathematics; Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering; and Physics provides a highly interactive research and teaching environment where and Astronomy. all barriers to collaboration have been removed. Many of the major advances of the 20th century began here, including As such, the Faculty is able to conduct the highest quality research while the work by Rutherford leading to the splitting of the atom and the maintaining an extensive range of undergraduate and graduate development of the world's first modern computer. Today, research programmes, as well as vocational training. activities remain at the cutting-edge and the Faculty now generates around £75 million in research funding a year. The Faculty was ranked third in the country by quality alone in the two Units evaluated in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. When these The quality, breadth and volume of research activity at the Faculty of results were aggregated, it came second only to Cambridge – and Engineering and Physical Sciences is unrivalled. In 2010, two of our ahead of Oxford - in terms of research power (Grade Point Average x scientists, Professor Andre Geim and Professor Konstantin Novoselov, won number of staff). the Nobel Prize for Physics for their pioneering work with graphene. The Faculty's research encompasses the entire spread of life sciences from Research is at the heart of The University of Manchester's Faculty of the molecule to the cell to the organism, spanning all fields of biology from Engineering and Physical Sciences. The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise environmental studies to cancer biology, from neuroscience to post- revealed outstanding results, with all of our departments demonstrating genomics, and from structural biology to organ transplantation. international or national excellence. Rapid advances in molecular biology, structural biology, genomics and bioinformatics, will ensure that the life sciences will continue to dominate scientific discoveries in the 21st century. The Faculty of Humanities The Faculty of Humanities is the largest of the University’s four Faculties and encompasses academic areas as diverse as Arts, Education, Social The Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences Sciences, Business and Management, and Information Technology. The Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences has a long and proud history of With a total income of around £190 million per annum, more than 16,000 innovative teaching and groundbreaking research, and is one of the largest students and some 957 academic staff, it is equivalent to a medium-sized faculties of clinical and health sciences in Europe. university in the UK. The Faculty has five Schools – Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and The Faculty brings together seven schools: Manchester Business School; Pharmaceutical Sciences, Psychological Sciences, and Nursing, Midwifery and Arts, Histories and Cultures; Law; Social Sciences; Environment and Social Work – with strong interdisciplinary links with other Schools and Development; Languages, Linguistics and Cultures and Education, who all Faculties across the University, including Life Sciences, Engineering and Physical have an excellent track record for research and teaching. Sciences, Economic and Social Sciences, and Education. Major activities include the Centre for New Writing, the Institute for Social The School of Medicine traces its past to the first medical school established in Change, the Brooks World Poverty Institute, the Institute for Science, Ethics England outside London, while the School of Nursing was the first British and Innovation, the Manchester Institute for Innovation Research, the school to offer a degree in the subject; similarly, Manchester was the first Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, the Centre for Chinese university to award degrees in Pharmacy. Studies, the Institute for Development Policy and Management, the Centre The Faculty’s performance in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) for Equity in Education and the Sustainable Consumption Institute. reflects its strength across an entire range of biomedical and clinical research In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, Humanities was behind only areas from laboratory-based investigations through to studies of the impact of Oxford and Cambridge in the number of world-leading staff returned discoveries on the health of the population. (classified as 4*). 22% of its activity was classed as world leading and a There is a strong organisational capability for undertaking cross-faculty further 40% as internationally excellent. teaching and research activity in partnership with the public sector and industry. For example, in conjunction with four teaching hospitals, more than 300 GP practices and 25 district hospitals, the Faculty trains in excess of 350 doctors each year. Similarly, in partnership with the Department of Health, it provides continuing professional development training for all 18,500 community pharmacists in England. Furthermore, teaching and research is spread over a wide area with major links to Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the Christie NHS Foundation Trust, the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, and Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust. 2 Degree Congregations Monday, 12 December 2011 in the Whitworth Hall Order of Proceedings The Procession will enter the Hall in the following Order (The Congregation standing) Procession Leaders Members of Senate Members of the Teaching and Administrative Staff Wardens of Halls of Residence Members of the Assembly Stewards The Presenters The Mace Bearer The Registrar and Secretary ~~~~~~~~~~~~ At the Degree ceremony at 12.15pm Professor Chris Taylor, Associate Vice President will Preside Mrs Emma Casey, will act as Registrar and Secretary Professor Richard Heeks will present Graduands from the School of Environment and Development following a welcome address Organist Elin Rees BMus, LRSM Mace Bearer Christine Bowers At the Degree ceremony at 2.30pm Professor Nalin Thakker, Associate Vice President will Preside Mrs Emma Casey, will act as Registrar and Secretary Professor Martin Evans, Professor Tom Jeffries and Mr Michael Hebbert will present Graduands from the School of Environment and Development following a welcome address by Professor Simon Guy Organist Elin Rees BMus, LRSM Mace Bearer Alan Jones At the Degree ceremony at 4.45pm Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, President and Vice

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