Annual Review 2014/2015 “ One of the facets of our work of which I’m most proud is that we are able to demonstrate our impact and influence right across the board – from the local to the global.”

Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, the University of Edinburgh

The close of 2014 saw a major refurbishment of the Golden Boy, who stands atop the Old College dome. A regilding process restored the lustre that had been lost as the elements took their toll. The statue, which holds the torch of knowledge, was recoated in gold leaf for the first time in 30 years. Our vision Our mission

To recruit and develop the world’s most The mission of our University is the creation, promising students and most outstanding staff dissemination and curation of knowledge. and be a truly global university benefiting As a world-leading centre of academic society as a whole. excellence we aim to:

• enhance our position as one of the world’s leading research and teaching universities and to measure our performance against the highest international standards

• provide the highest quality learning and teaching environment for the greater wellbeing of our students and deliver an outstanding educational portfolio

• produce graduates fully equipped to achieve the highest personal and professional standards

• make a significant, sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK and the world, promoting health, economic growth and cultural wellbeing.

To view our Annual Review online, please visit: www.ed.ac.uk/annual-review Edinburgh Flying Faculty created

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The first brain atlas Introduction Annual Review 2014/2015 01 Features Round-up

Contents Honorary graduates

02 Principal’s foreword 20 Reaching out to inspire school pupils 04 Advancing diagnosis of dementia 22 The EUSA Teaching Awards 2014–15 06 Rewarding student endeavour

24 Review of the year Awards & achievements 08 Transforming ideas into enterprise 28 Honorary graduations

10 Taking the Edinburgh 30 Awards and achievements experience to China 32 Financial review 12 Providing a forum for thought 34 Appointments

14 Delivering big data solutions 36 Appendix 1: Student numbers Financial review 38 Appendix 2: Undergraduate 16 Informing deaf applications and education policy acceptances 18 Safeguarding next-generation 39 Appendix 3: Benefactions banking 42 Appendix 4: Research grants and

other sources Appointments of funding

Please view our Annual Review online: www.ed.ac.uk/annual-review Appendices Introduction 02 Annual Review 2014/2015 Principal’s foreword

The breadth of our international partnerships has a really positive impact on the overall student experience at Edinburgh.

Features

One of the great strengths of the University ‘Big data’ is a term we are hearing more and of Edinburgh, and indeed one of its most more in the 21st century – and creating the appealing aspects, is its very great diversity. new methodology of data science is an area This is manifest not only in the staff and in which Edinburgh is a vital player. We are a students who form the backbone of key partner in the newly created Alan Turing our institution, but also in the range of Institute and this year we feature the work of activities we undertake. colleagues looking at how we collect,

organise and interpret large sets of data – Round-up From world-leading research through and realise its economic potential. company formation and on to inspirational teaching, we are a broad church and we Great universities like Edinburgh have the make a significant contribution educationally, capability to change people’s lives for the culturally and economically. We are also better – this is not always in the most diverse in terms of the communities we serve. obvious ways, such as medical research We are proud to be based in Edinburgh, breakthroughs, but in other ways too. proud to be Scottish, proud to be British and This year we investigate how colleagues proud to be international. in our School of Education are helping Honorary graduates to inform policy and shape the education We can trace our history back to 1583 when of deaf people across Scotland. Meanwhile, we became one of the world’s first great academics in our Business School have civic universities with financial backing from been attracting attention with their vision the then town council. That relationship for a system which could radically change Along with our staff, our students are our with the city that we call home is extremely the way that banks lend money – something most important asset. We strive constantly important to us at a time when higher I am sure will be of interest to many in to provide them with a world-class learning education is going through a period of challenging economic times. and teaching experience and an environment unprecedented internationalisation. in which they can thrive while undertaking Edinburgh is no exception. We too are I am gratified to see that at Edinburgh we their studies. The quality of that experience Awards & achievements global – but we are also local. One of the work hard at giving back. In return for the is reflected in the international accreditation facets of our work of which I’m most proud support we receive as a neighbour, within many of our programmes achieve and the is that we are able to demonstrate our Scotland’s capital city, we contribute a great feedback we receive from the statutory impact and influence right across the deal locally. This comes in a variety of ways, bodies tasked with reviewing performance board – from the local to the global. some of which we focus on in this year’s in higher education. I’ve been particularly publication. Among them, the project that pleased to note the success of the Edinburgh In this year’s Annual Review we focus on colleagues in our School of Geosciences Award that we established in partnership with a range of activity that demonstrates the have been undertaking with local schools, Edinburgh University Students’ Association breadth of our contribution. As a society developing programmes for five to 17-year- (EUSA). Our students make a massive we are facing a number of global health olds that are educational, engaging and fun. contribution to our fellow citizens, challenges and one of the biggest is We also give back in the context of our volunteering for a huge variety of good dementia. The University is making important economic impact and our ability to create causes across Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh Financial review strides forward with its research in this area. new businesses and jobs. Over the past Award recognises all the good work that they We feature in this publication the work of 12 months the University has created a do when they’re not engaged in the business our team developing the first ‘brain atlas’ or record number of companies, a grand total of study. digital map of the brain to assist researchers of 44, with all offering the openings investigating brain ageing, vascular disease and opportunities that new business Our students are among our greatest and dementia. endeavours bring. ambassadors and if we can instil in them those core values of giving back and I believe that collaboration is a significant Crucially, we also give back in providing a contributing to society, whether that’s driver of innovation and can be very forum for debate and the exchange of ideas. locally or globally, then I am optimistic beneficial to the advances we are making This year’s review looks at our ‘Future of the for the future. both in research and teaching. We have long UK and Scotland’ project and the role we Appointments enjoyed fruitful links with China and that played in developing an impartial arena relationship was recently strengthened with in which the issues around Scottish the launch of our new degree partnership in independence could be discussed and integrative biomedical sciences with Zhejiang evaluated freely. University. Health provision is one of China’s major growth areas – and it is now one in Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea which Edinburgh is playing an important part. BSc, PhD, FRSE Appendices

Students surveying the view across Edinburgh from Arthur’s Seat. Photograph by Imelda Mulyani Harsono 04 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Review 2014/2015 05 Introduction Advancing diagnosis of dementia Features

2015 saw the University publish the first ‘brain atlas’ – a digital map of the brain There are very real grounds for optimism. designed to assist researchers working in the Professor Craig Ritchie areas of brain ageing, vascular disease and dementia. With a suite of powerful MRI and CT scanners available across the University’s It is now widely recognised that the key to Ask Professor Ritchie if he believes a cure medical campuses – and more to be added tackling conditions like dementia lies in earlier will one day be found for dementia, and the in the coming year – scientists are capturing diagnosis and preventative treatment. The answer is resoundingly positive. Round-up detailed images of the body to understand advances of 21st century medicine allow us how we can prevent and treat some of the to move on from keeping people alive for “There are very real grounds for optimism,” world’s most challenging conditions. longer, towards keeping people healthy for he says. “We are beginning to understand longer. With expertise across the full range of that the disease process of dementia begins The University’s Dr David Dickie, working with specialisms required for the task – medicine, at least 20 or 30 years before symptoms colleagues from Professor Joanna Wardlaw’s neuroscience, psychology and informatics – develop, and it is at that point in time that the research team, based at the University’s the University has a global reputation for EPAD project is aiming to intervene.” Brain Research Imaging Centre, produced leading the field. The benefits of this have the digital map of the brain particularly for been recognised by the award of a new The initiative will establish a register of Honorary graduates their work on the brains of people over the PET MRI scanner from the Medical Research around 24,000 people from across Europe to age of 60. This tool is now being used to Council as part of Dementias Platform UK, create a cohort of 6,000 individuals deemed track how a healthy brain ages, in an effort which is set to arrive at the University in to be at risk of developing dementia. Their to aid earlier diagnosis of neurodegenerative the next year. level of risk will be determined by cognitive, diseases, such as dementia. biological and clinical tests and those in the In the case of dementia, the stakes could highest category will be invited to trial new, “Brains are very much like faces, in that there not be higher. The latest WHO analysis preventative medicines. is a wide range of what is considered to be estimates that 47.5 million people currently normal,” explains Dr Dickie. “By developing live with dementia worldwide. That figure is With such a rich data source the team hopes maps of the brain, we can quantify that range set to triple by 2050. The annual health and to develop models of the dementia journey, Awards & achievements and track how the brain changes in healthy social care costs for the condition, according allowing scientists to spot the signposts in people over time.” to a recent study in the British Medical those who may be at risk. Journal, come to £11.6 billion in the UK – The team is now recruiting more volunteers higher than for cancer, stroke and coronary So how do you solve a problem like dementia? in order to build a robust image bank of the heart disease combined. Professor Ritchie has two proposals. brain at all ages. This atlas will be used as the benchmark of healthy ageing, against Yet despite the fact that the road to finding “There is good emerging evidence that we which the scans of patients with disease effective treatments has so far proved long should explore both pharmacological and could be compared. As well as diagnosing and unrewarding, Professor Craig Ritchie, lifestyle interventions,” he explains. “Within existing disorders, it may also help to from the University’s Centre for Dementia EPAD, we are hoping to develop treatments identify the early biological changes that Prevention, remains optimistic. that will prevent the biological changes that occur before any clinical symptoms of occur in the brain while the condition is still Financial review disease develop. As the lead of a new £50 million initiative in its ‘silent’ stage. aimed at bringing treatments for Alzheimer’s Dr Dickie continues: “Unlike most other parts disease to market more quickly – the “But we must also take very seriously the of the body, it is very difficult to take biopsies European Prevention of Alzheimer’s role lifestyle choices have to play. Diet and of the brain, but advanced imaging is now Dementia (EPAD) project – it is easy to exercise are crucial to good brain health able to show us much of what’s going on understand why. This new research and we hope to engage the public with inside and offer information that simply consortium, which involves more than 36 these messages as successfully as the wasn’t available before. organisations from across Europe, aims campaigns for tackling cardiovascular to pinpoint the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease have done. “The challenge is that people who are now disease and how it leads to dementia. aged 70 didn’t have brain scans when they It will provide a platform to investigate “What’s good for your heart is good for Appointments were 10, so we can’t compare directly how new treatments that aim to prevent or your brain, and we believe this type of public their brains have changed over time. We delay the onset of clinical symptoms in health information could prove to be critically need to build a life-long picture of the brain, people at risk of developing the condition. important in reducing the risk of dementia in and how it changes.” the long term.” Appendices

Professor Craig Ritchie (left) with Dr David Dickie, in the Clinical Research Imaging Centre on the University’s Little France campus. 06 Annual Review 2014/2015 Introduction Rewarding student endeavour Features

The late summer of 2014 saw a small but dedicated group of Edinburgh staff, led by I saw the Award as a fantastic way to reflect Professor Tina Harrison, Assistant Principal and acknowledge the activities I do outside Academic Standards, gather to begin preparations for the institution’s Quality of the academic setting. Assurance Agency (QAA) review. Mr Declan Sherridan

Over the course of 14 meetings and two Round-up separate visits, the Enhancement-Led while students graduate with their Edinburgh Award for his efforts. Institutional Review panel met with staff and Edinburgh Award recorded on their HEAR, “I decided to do the Edinburgh Award for a students – undergraduates, postgraduates the University has also fostered communities number of reasons,” he explains. “I realised and distance learners, in person and via actively committed to accelerating student that a degree is no longer enough. You have Skype – to ensure a clear understanding development. to maximise what you do in your spare time of how the University’s teaching practices also. I saw the Award as a fantastic way to are developing and innovating. “The Edinburgh Award has a sector-leading reflect and acknowledge the activities I do design and delivery model, making significant outside of the academic setting; and it was

During this process one project particularly impact across the University,” explains Ms easy to complete alongside my internship.” Honorary graduates impressed the panel. The Edinburgh Award Green. “It has brought career planning and is an employability and personal development employability into previously unreached areas Declan believes the process he went through scheme established by the University of the University community, and student to gain the Award stands him in good stead with Edinburgh University Students’ satisfaction runs at above 95 per cent.” in an ever-challenging job market. Association (EUSA). For one fourth-year law undergraduate, Ms “It’s great to have the recognition from The commitment of Edinburgh students to Chelsea Martin, the experience of undertaking the University and to know that my extra- take up volunteering never fails to impress the Award brought unexpected benefits. curricular efforts are valued,” he says. “But and their range of activities is vast: from more importantly I now have the skills to really taking part in charity fundraising telethons, “I definitely have more confidence in myself as focus on self-reflection to ensure personal Awards & achievements acting as a student ambassador, to football a result of the Edinburgh Award,” says Chelsea. development. The benefits of this programme coaching and feeding the homeless. As well “In the past, I’d portray the image of confidence, are definitely going to be long lasting.” as throwing themselves in to voluntary work, whereas now I no longer have to pretend – a great many also juggle the demands of I really do have the confidence I need.” What began as a pilot five years ago is study with part-time work. Now, through now an integral part of the Edinburgh the Edinburgh Award, these efforts are Chelsea worked as a LawPALS leader student experience. recognised in a way that helps shape as part of the Law School’s Peer-Assisted their careers. Learning Scheme. She helped first-year “These are essential steps in best preparing law students adapt to studying law, our students to have the greatest benefit on “Personal, professional and intellectual through weekly meetings. society as a whole,” states Ms Green. “As growth happen within and beyond the formal Director of the Careers Service, there’s curriculum,” says Ms Shelagh Green, Director “I was encouraged to do the Award by other nothing better than hearing the stories from Financial review of the University’s Careers Service. “It’s students who had completed it previously individual students who relate how beneficial essential that we use all these experiences but I was also motivated by the prestige the experience has been when applying for to prepare our students for the challenging associated with having the Award on my jobs and going for interview.” and ever-changing world that awaits them.” transcript,” she explains. The University received the best possible Prompted by the University’s ongoing For Chelsea the experience was transformative: outcome from the QAA’s Enhancement-Led commitment to student employability, “Self-awareness and reflection are big parts Institutional Review, which commended the and the development of Higher Education of the process. Never before have I looked so Edinburgh Award, alongside other University Achievement Reports (HEAR), the Edinburgh closely at myself – either to identify and talk commitments to best learning practice. Award was created to add structure to co- about my strengths or to recognise and work and extra-curricular activities. Be it part-time on my weaknesses. Not only do I have more For Professor Harrison, this has been a team Appointments work, volunteering, peer-assisted learning, confidence in the skills that I have, but I also affair: “The successful outcome reflects the or student representation, University staff – gained confidence in being able to state commitment of University staff and EUSA to the Award leaders – bring their particular these skills on an application, knowing that I ensuring a high-quality student experience. expertise to each version of the Award. had real examples to back them up and an The overall feedback from the review team This flexibility contributed to the scheme’s award to show for it.” was extremely positive. The outcome also growth, which reached target numbers two reflects the contribution colleagues have years ahead of schedule. Ancient History MA graduate, Mr Declan made to the review. All of this makes the Sheridan undertook an internship with the successful outcome a truly collective effort.” Capitalising on a deep engagement University’s Careers Service while completing with student support across the institution, his degree, and was also a recipient of the Appendices

(From left) Final-year undergraduate Ms Chelsea Martin, with Professor Tina Harrison and Ms Shelagh Green, in the University’s Career Service. 08 Annual Review 2014/2015 Introduction Transforming ideas into enterprise Features

There is an enviable track record at Edinburgh of turning bright ideas into big The initial support acted as a catalyst for what has business and the past 12 months have been become a massively successful company offering no exception. In fact, they have seen the creation of a record number of companies by highly-skilled jobs to 20 people. the University – a grand total of 44, of which Professor Harold Haas 41 were start-ups and three spin-outs. Round-up The breadth, diversity and innovative Dehumaniser is sound-effect software for use Developed in the University’s School of nature of research being conducted by in film, television and video games. It was Engineering, LiFi technology is currently the University means that it has practical recently used as the voice of the character being incorporated at the home of the applications throughout all walks of life – Ultron in the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron. Golden State Warriors basketball team in and in many cases that research has the San Francisco and has been backed by the capability to be turned into successful “Usually, making imaginary creature sounds University’s venture investment arm, Old commercial enterprises. requires the recording and processing of College Capital. At the TED Global 2015 various animal sounds or human voices, conference, Professor Haas demonstrated

This is largely thanks to the work of adding them in layers in order to create how LiFi can be used with solar cells, which Honorary graduates Edinburgh Research and Innovation (ERI) the wanted sound,” explains Orfeas. could have life-changing implications for the specialist arm of the University that “This procedure needs hours for designing communities without existing power assists academics with what can be the a single sound effect – and money to spend infrastructures. challenging process of giving their expertise on expensive software and sound libraries. commercial appeal. And the service is not “I have received tremendous support and just for staff – students can also benefit from “Our software allows the production of encouragement from the University, both for the backing of LAUNCH.ed, a University studio-quality monster and creature sounds, my research and for taking forward my initiative that helps student entrepreneurs. in real time using your voice. You basically resulting innovations,” says Professor Haas. scream into the microphone and you make “ERI pointed me to the appropriate grants to As for the quality of the research and its the wanted sound. There is also an iOS app apply for, and in addition, I received internal Awards & achievements relevance to the world of business, the version of Dehumaniser for fun!” funding to build a first proof-of-concept figures speak for themselves, with investment demonstrator that led to LiFi, and in University-founded companies hitting a For Orfeas the last year has been a subsequently to a larger project, and record high. A total of £237.4 million has significant one: “In 2014 I was awarded a eventually to pureLiFi Ltd which has become been invested over the past year, University Research Fellowship by the Royal the world leader in LiFi technologies.” demonstrating the impact that the company Society of Edinburgh. It was a life-changing formation activities are generating. experience that provides salary and business Professor Haas’ research group published training for a year. The University is doing a the first proof-of-concept results One such success story is that of Krotos Ltd, great job supporting start-ups.” demonstrating that it is possible to turn set up by University of Edinburgh graduate, commercially available light emitting diode Mr Orfeas Boteas. Orfeas studied for a Success stories like Krotos Ltd are not (LED) light bulbs into broadband wireless Sound Design MSc in 2012, and managed to just good news for the University community, transmission systems. It is this kind of Financial review turn his final-year project into a commercial they’re also good news for the wider economy. innovation, with backing from the University, success in a very short space of time. The new companies have contributed more that is now feeding back into the economy. than £140 million to the Scottish economy “My studies played a very important role,” and helped to create 2,300 jobs, according “The initial support was instrumental,” he says Orfeas. “I received very valuable advice to the independent consultancy BiGGAR reflects. “It acted as a catalyst for what has from LAUNCH.ed which was crucial to the Economics. become a massively successful company business. They also gave me the option to offering highly skilled jobs to 20 people, apply for a full-time internship with them, The University’s Professor Harald Haas holds and many more in the years to come.” to work on commercialising my project over the Chair of Mobile Communications and is a the summer, while providing business pioneer of LiFi technology. He is also Since Edinburgh’s first recorded spin-out, training as well. co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Reynolds Medical, was established more Appointments pureLiFi Ltd, as well as the Director of the than 40 years ago, the University has created “It was during this time that I incorporated University’s LiFi Research and Development more than 400 start-up and spin-out Krotos Ltd and we released the commercial Centre. He works on light-enabled internet companies. If the visionary work of Krotos version of our product, Dehumaniser, in technology. Professor Haas calls it “technology and pureLiFi Ltd are anything to go by, there November 2013.” that can communicate as well as illuminate”. will be many more in the years to come. Appendices

Edinburgh graduate and entrepreneur, Mr Orfeas Boteas in the offices of Krotos Ltd on the University’s Central Area campus. 10 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Review 2014/2015 11 Introduction Taking the Edinburgh experience to China Features

A unique biomedical partnership with Zhejiang University in China has created a As well as staff based permanently in Zhejiang, Scottish university first. Health provision is we will utilise ‘flying faculty’ who will spend one of China’s strongest growth areas – one in which Edinburgh is playing a leading role. shorter periods on campus and provide their In 2015, the University announced an innovative degree partnership with Zhejiang particular expertise to students.

University in the subject of integrative Professor John Stewart Round-up biomedical sciences.

Co-devised by academics from Edinburgh “As well as staff based permanently there, we teaching and research and allows us to and Zhejiang, to reflect the range of expertise will utilise so-called ‘flying faculty’ – who will scale up our activities and undertake fresh in biomedical sciences at both universities, spend shorter periods on campus and initiatives that we simply cannot complete the four-year undergraduate programme is provide their particular expertise to students. by ourselves. Developing high-value expected to attract some 600 students over Additionally, we will make use of Edinburgh’s partnerships lies at the heart of our global the next five years. Taught entirely in English enviable online learning capability, which engagement, and the Zhejiang project points by Edinburgh and Zhejiang academics in successfully delivers tuition at a distance.” the way as to how that can be achieved.” Honorary graduates Haining, the plan is to attract the brightest students from China – and elsewhere. The new degree programme will offer a The Zhejiang partnership is not without its curriculum reflecting the full breadth of challenges, concedes Professor Stewart, The University’s Professor Jeremy Bradshaw, biomedical science, including infectious but he believes all obstacles will be Assistant Principal Researcher Development, diseases, neuroscience, pharmacology, overcome. “The recruitment processes, has been instrumental in bringing the physiology and reproductive biology. degree award and classification and many project to fruition. Having surveyed education In a country where the discipline of other matters are different between China in China for the UK Quality Assurance biomedical sciences is new, Professor and Scotland, as are the general cultural and Agency in 2013, he was particularly Bradshaw believes Edinburgh offers educational systems. However, I see the fact impressed by a model of joint provision something valuable for the future. that we come to the table with very different Awards & achievements that involved Zhejiang. experiences as a great advantage, and there “As medical research develops in China, is tremendous enthusiasm on both sides to He believes the significance of the agreement it will become increasingly important to make this a success.” should not be underestimated: “The have suitable undergraduate programmes biomedical science degree partnership to provide the research-competent China is a country with which Edinburgh’s with Zhejiang University not only provides graduates that the growth will require,” engagement levels are rising, and 2015 opportunities for Chinese students to gain he explains. saw several other developments for the an ‘Edinburgh experience’ in their own University. One of the most significant was country, without the expense of relocating While this degree is new, the tradition of the establishment of a new office by the to Edinburgh, it also enables the two Edinburgh’s medical expertise being put to University’s Edinburgh Centre for Carbon universities to learn from each other at all good use in China is not. In 1881 David Innovation (ECCI) in Hong Kong. levels, and develop truly significant joint Duncan Main, an Edinburgh medical Financial review research, in a long-term partnership that will graduate arrived in China and started work Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, outlast the typical life span of international in the 1,300-bed hospital at Hangzhou officially opened the Centre at the Hong research collaborations.” College. By the time he left China 45 years Kong Science and Technology Park as part later, he had established at least 30 medical of a Scottish Government trade mission. Edinburgh’s Professor John Stewart is and welfare institutions, as well as providing The new Centre will enable low-carbon leading Edinburgh’s involvement in the medical training to hundreds of Chinese men experts to develop solutions to some of project and highlights the fact that every and women, and translating a number of the biggest challenges facing mankind, aspect of the course has been developed English-language medical texts into Chinese. including air quality, energy efficiency and in a collaborative way. sustainable construction. For Professor James Smith, Edinburgh’s He says “The University of Edinburgh is Vice-Principal International, the Zhejiang Meanwhile, work is already under way to Appointments not just taking courses that are delivered in partnership follows in the best traditions of develop other programmes with Zhejiang. Edinburgh to China and delivering them Edinburgh’s ability to connect with people The agreement with the Chinese Ministry there. Rather, we are developing this new around the world. of Education provides for a second programme to suit the needs, requirements undergraduate programme to be delivered and aspiration of the students in Zhejiang. “Working with international partners is jointly, while discussions are also taking absolutely critical,” he states. “It extends the place to establish joint MSc and PhD reach, quality and impact of both our programmes in the near future. Appendices

Vice-Principal International, Professor James Smith (left) with Professor Jeremy Bradshaw in Edinburgh’s Confucius Institute. 12 Annual Review 2014/2015 Introduction Providing a forum for thought Features

On 18 September 2014, the people of Scotland were asked a question: Should There is a role for academic institutions here, Scotland be an independent country? and a real opportunity to reach beyond the Behind this deceptively simple formulation lay arguably the most important proposition policy debate and become a useful platform put to a country of the United Kingdom in centuries. for public engagement.

Professor Charlie Jeffery Round-up Amid a tangibly heightened atmosphere sweeping Scotland, the University carefully carved out an important arena where the The media were strategically engaged by the Professor McEwen sees the Centre’s role issues around independence could be University, which became the destination of as one of a broker. It is providing experts to discussed and evaluated freely. choice for more than 700 journalists looking give evidence at influential committees in for expertise and authoritative comment in Holyrood, Westminster, and Brussels, as “Political parties and the media couldn’t the months preceding the referendum. well as helping civil society and the public do that,” says the University’s Senior Vice- Academics from Schools and departments understand the issues at hand.

Principal and Professor of Politics, Charlie as varied as Divinity, History and English Honorary graduates Jeffery. “They were all seen by the public Literature were sought out. Another impending constitutional issue is as being on one side of the debate.” the referendum on the UK’s membership Via outlets ranging from The New York Times of the European Union. An initiative called To that end, in the year leading up to the to Al Jazeera, the University provided insight European Futures is the University’s referendum on Scottish independence, to tens of millions of people, giving the response. Led by Professor Laura Cram, Professor Jeffery led the Future of the University’s activities “the widest global reach the European Futures blog provides a UK and Scotland project. Funded by the for any social science initiative in the world,” forum for Europe-wide discussion. Economic and Social Research Council according to Professor Jeffery. and involving academics from several other “For many academics this is the moment Scottish universities, the project was tasked Following the 2014 referendum the when all their years of research suddenly Awards & achievements with unpicking some of the knotty issues University’s vital role in examining public becomes very important,” says Professor around independence. Academic rigour policy continues. Cram. “There is a huge wealth of really from the University’s Schools of Law, exciting research that has already tackled Education, Business and Social & “The independence referendum didn’t end some of the major issues. European Futures Political Science was brought into areas the constitutional debate; it kick-started a is a real opportunity to inform people. We previously dominated by political spin. new one about reforming the UK,” says want to make them feel confident as they Professor Nicola McEwen, Associate Director vote on this issue.” The project’s results were communicated of The Centre on Constitutional Change at in a number of ways. The Future of the the University. Located in the School of Social Like the Future of the UK and Scotland, the UK and Scotland website featured regular & Political Science, the Centre is continuing European Futures project will commission blogs analysing breaking news around the the work begun by the Future of the UK and research on specific topics related to the EU referendum in short bursts of accessible Scotland project. It is examining such issues referendum. It will also use special software Financial review non-academic language. A Massive Open as English Votes for English Laws, the Smith to track how the debate is unfolding on social Online Course (MOOC) about the vote was Commission and the resultant Scotland Bill, media. Whatever the result, the University established. Public events were held. An further devolution for Wales, and how a will continue to facilitate discussions about e-book explaining the issues was published federal UK might operate. Given the speed at the major political forces that shape our lives in conjunction with the David Hume Institute which these constitutional issues have arisen, for the benefit of both policymakers and and the Hunter Foundation. the Centre provides a crucial space for the public. consideration and debate. Crucially these activities were valued equally “We face major political challenges, some of by both sets of campaigners, as well as the “The academic community is playing a vital which are beset by hard positions that don’t public. Both campaigns expressed gratitude role in saying ‘hang on’,” says Professor necessarily provide the ordinary citizen a way for the work. The blog built up an audience of McEwen. “We need to ask what all this of judging between them,” says Professor Appointments hundreds of thousands. Nearly ten thousand means in practice. It is really important that Jeffery. “But there is a role for academic people took part in the MOOC. The e-book there is a centre and group of people that are institutions here, and a real opportunity to was downloaded more than 100,000 times. given the time to reflect upon these things reach beyond the policy debate and become and disseminate that message beyond a useful platform for public engagement.” party politics.” Appendices

Professor Nicola McEwen (left) with Professor Laura Cram, in a committee room within the Scottish Parliament. 14 Annual Review 2014/2015 Introduction Delivering big data solutions Features

If the future is to be shaped by the dizzying amounts of data people produce, then We are creating the new methodology history suggests Edinburgh will be uniquely of data science. placed to harness the benefits. For 50 years the institution has led many advances that Professor Richard Kenway have shaped the computer age. Now its researchers are part of a UK-wide initiative that seeks to draw meaning from the The University’s Professor Richard Kenway, of e-science. Scattered networks of Round-up explosion of digital output and realise its Non-Executive Director of the Institute and scientists, working across continents and economic potential. Vice-Principal High Performance Computing, different disciplines, used a turbo-charged urges caution. “Data science has a vast computational network called the Grid to turn The new venture, named after the computer amount of promise, but we mustn’t get shared data into knowledge. Once more, pioneer and code-breaker Alan Turing, carried away and take at face value what business liked what it saw. focuses on ways of collecting, organising data appears to be telling us,” he says. and interpreting large sets of digital Standing still was not an option. Edinburgh information – commonly known as big data. “We need a deeper understanding of the became the home of the UK’s first super

Based at the British Library, the Alan Turing underlying mechanisms and, from this, new computer HECTOR in 2007, and this honour Honorary graduates Institute will draw on Edinburgh’s expertise algorithms. Data only describes what has was re-established with the placing of its in computational, mathematical and already taken place – we can’t guarantee successor, ARCHER, in the hands of the social sciences. that the future is going to resemble the past.” University’s EPCC researchers in 2014. Capable of more than one million billion In 2015 it was announced that the This mission to produce insights, services calculations a second, the £43 million Institute will be headed by Edinburgh and products is as far-reaching as the data ARCHER system provides high performance alumnus, and former computer science itself, but Edinburgh scientists have faced computing support for a range of research researcher at Edinburgh, Professor Andrew similar challenges before. Artificial and industry projects and is number one in Blake. Its aim is to make breakthroughs that intelligence pioneer Professor Donald Michie the UK, and 40th in the world, in terms of raw will produce new algorithms – step-by-step – a wartime colleague of Alan Turing at computational performance. Awards & achievements sets of operations – that are needed to Bletchley Park – assembled his fledgling address real-world problems. research group at Edinburgh in the 1960s. Among the Alan Turing Institute’s earliest projects is a collaboration with supercomputer The Institute is backed by £42 million of UK Before long, this remarkable polymath – with manufacturer Cray and the EPSRC to government money and £10 million from degrees in anatomy, genetics and biological upgrade ARCHER’s analytics capability. Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Each university sciences – was helping to bring about the involved – Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, world of robots, computer games and search The Institute’s joint programme with Lloyd’s UCL and Warwick – will contribute £5 million. engines. Professor Michie’s multi-disciplinary Register Foundation will develop data-centric Government Communications Headquarters approach and willingness to engage with applications in engineering to enhance safety (GCHQ) and Intel Corporation have also business – to say nothing of his visionary at sea, on land and in the air. announced their intention to become genius – would sit well in the Institute that partners. With backing from the Engineering bears his friend’s name. Plans are also under way to work with Financial review and Physical Sciences Research Council GCHQ to develop data-analysis methods (EPSRC) it will develop strategic links with By the time computers had become an that can be applied in open access and industry and commerce, seek to improve indispensable research tool in the 1980s, commercial environments. cyber security and train the next generation Edinburgh was ready to up the stakes. An of data scientists. emerging generation of physicists – among For Professor Kenway, such projects them Professor Kenway – was ready to demonstrate the breadth of the challenges The idea that universities should be drivers of exploit a new type of computation that was ahead. “We are creating the new economic growth as well as game-changing creating previously unthinkable opportunities. methodology of data science,” he says. research is a familiar one, but the digital Parallel computing – which enables many revolution takes these aspirations to new calculations to be completed simultaneously “The data scientist is more akin to an heights. Google Chairman, Eric Schmidt put on different microprocessors – was precisely Olympic pentathlete than an elite runner Appointments it eloquently in 2010 when he estimated that what the worlds of industry and commerce who focuses on a single event. He or she – between the dawn of civilisation and 2003, were waiting for. like Donald Michie – will have to excel in a humankind had created five billion billion range of disciplines.” bytes of information – a total that is now In the next decade, as the World Wide Web produced every two days. With this flood of began its spectacular ascendancy, data – most of it unstructured, much of it Edinburgh was again in the vanguard, incomplete and some of it wrong – comes becoming a key player in the emerging field a demand for meaningful analysis and heightened expectations from companies. Appendices

Vice-Principal High Performance Computing, Professor Richard Kenway, at the ARCHER facility, housed at Edinburgh’s Technopole. 16 Annual Review 2014/2015 Introduction Informing deaf education policy Features

Since 1760, when Thomas Braidwood opened the UK’s first school for the deaf in The National Deaf Children’s Society used our Edinburgh, the city has played an important research to push for a parliamentary inquiry, role in the history of deaf education. By 2005 the work of British Sign Language (BSL) and our findings also fed into that. pioneer Dr Mary Brennan had firmly Ms Rachel O’Neill established Moray House School of

Education as a leading institute for deaf Round-up studies, but her legacy was to be greater than that. should narrow,” explains Ms O’Neill. different from that of profoundly deaf “The Society used our research to push children. The research points to a need for In 2000 Dr Brennan established for a parliamentary inquiry, and our local authority services for deaf children to Achievements of Deaf Pupils in Scotland, findings also fed into that.” build relationships with parents of all deaf a comprehensive national survey of deaf children, mild to severe, to encourage the children’s educational progress and The team’s results showed that those who best possible language development in the attainment. Funded by the Scottish Executive had attended a resource base or deaf school early years.

Education Department and based in the had a wide range of communication choices Honorary graduates Scottish Sensory Centre in Moray House, available to them, while those who had The majority of deaf children develop speech the project carried out annual surveys of deaf attended mainstream schools were very and lip-reading skills, but BSL is also used, children in Scottish schools. Reviewing 2,000 unlikely to use sign language. In a resource by more than 12,500 people in Scotland. pupils over five years, Dr Brennan compiled base school, deaf children receive intensive Like any language, it is constantly evolving the largest database of its kind. support for literacy, spoken language with its own vocabulary and grammar. The development and signing, while such support BSL Glossary Team at the University’s Recently the research baton was taken up, is still unusual in mainstream schools, where Scottish Sensory Centre, working with deaf following the sad death of Dr Brennan in it’s rare that teachers have BSL skills. subject experts, have collated and devised 2005, by an Edinburgh team, who obtained a more than 1,000 curriculum terms and three-year grant from the Nuffield Foundation The British Sign Language (Scotland) Act definitions that are used by signing pupils, Awards & achievements to analyse and follow up on her findings. 2015 sees the status of BSL upgraded teachers and interpreters across the UK. from a recognised minority language to a Led by Ms Rachel O’Neill, lecturer at Moray language in its own right in Scotland and Other recommendations put forward in the House, with Professor Marc Marschark of the is likely to lead to commitments from the research team’s report include more targeted Rochester Institute of Technology in the US Scottish Government for more BSL training and tailored support for parents, better and Moray House colleague Ms Julie Arendt, for teachers. information and knowledge for young deaf the team contacted as many of the participants people, improved classroom acoustics in all of the original study as they could, through For Ms O’Neill there is also a direct need for schools and developing enhanced schools, the media and an online the range of teaching styles to be widened. awareness in teachers. questionnaire in both English and BSL, to ask about their school experiences, progression “To eliminate any linguistic delay we have to With Dr Brennan’s legacy research and the into training, further and higher education, ensure that all deaf children aged 0–5 ongoing work of Moray House education Financial review volunteer work and their current activities. develop a language, whether that be speech, experts, the spotlight on deaf education The team also contacted the parents of those sign or both,” she explains. “These years are for Scottish policymakers has never been children still in the school system, to find out crucial language-learning years. If a child fails brighter. Head of Moray House Dr Rowena about any parental support they had received. to develop a means of communication during Arshad sums up: “If we are serious about this time they will have a smaller vocabulary inclusion and getting it right for every child, Their findings were later to be examined and this makes reading harder, even though a good place to start is increasing by the Scottish Education and Culture there is nothing wrong with the child’s communication and cooperation between Committee, as part of a Scottish Government cognitive ability.” parents, teachers, education authorities inquiry into educational attainment gaps. and researchers to arrest these disparities. The importance of early development of a The principle has to be about needs and “The National Deaf Children’s Society has language is further underpinned by the not numbers.” Appointments always been keen that Parliament recognises team’s findings that children with mild the achievement gap between deaf and hearing loss are often overlooked in schools, hearing children as something which resulting in academic achievement no Appendices

Head of Moray House School of Education, Dr Rowena Arshad (left) with Ms Rachel O’Neill, in the University’s Moray House Library on the Holyrood campus. 18 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Review 2014/2015 19 Introduction Safeguarding next-generation banking Features

In 2015 academics from the University’s Business School made headlines with a Because we work so closely with numerous pioneering prototype that could transform the financial organisations… many PhD students, way banks lend money. The ‘intensity model’, developed by Professor Jonathan Crook and are offered high-calibre jobs with them. Dr Mindy Leow, may enable lenders to more Professor Jonathan Crook accurately predict when and where borrowers are most likely to fall behind on payments. Round-up A further benefit will come into play from “The conference is the only one of its “For many years, our research has tried to 1 January 2018, when a new international kind in the world,” he says. “Most industry address problems that banks and other accounting standard requires banks to set conferences are run by a specific company, types of lenders face,” says Professor Crook. provisions aside for every loan made in talking about their own developments. Ours “This ‘intensity model’ has evolved from case it doesn’t repay. is open for anyone to present new ideas. earlier programmes of study that stretch This attracts all sorts of industry leaders back to the 1990s.” “The provision is usually included in the – regulators, statisticians, credit bureau interest rate,” Professor Crook explains. professionals and academics – and

Traditionally, when a customer applied for “However, if the risk increases after the stimulates many lively and useful debates.” Honorary graduates a credit card, banks used data gathered loan has been made, intensity models can from their application to predict the likelihood reassess what will happen during the life of After the application of the statistical theory of defaulting – missing three payments – the loan far more accurately than models was initially made public in the European within a fixed timeframe. This was being used today.” Journal of Operational Research in 2014, revolutionised in the 1990s with the ‘survivor Professor Crook presented an enhanced model’, which predicts not only if a person The intensity model is good news for version of the model to delegates at the will default, but in which particular month borrowers too: “If the risk of you missing a Edinburgh conference in August. Reaction it is likely to take place. The new generation payment is more accurately assessed, your has been incredibly positive, although not intensity model devised by Professor Crook credit limit and interest rate will more truthfully overtly so. would not only predict if and when a reflect that risk. Someone that has a very high Awards & achievements borrower will default, but could also probability of missing a payment would “In private conversations, banks and other predict the likelihood of any individual typically be charged a higher interest rate, lenders have been very impressed,” account falling behind just once or twice, and people with low risk will be charged a Professor Crook explains. “But due to the and the ability of making catch-up lower one.” extreme secrecy around credit risk models, payments, on any given month. and the need to ensure competitors are not Professor Crook developed the idea of aware of each other’s plans, we can’t reveal The intensity model is not a new using the intensity model to make predictions anything further on the matter at present.” phenomenon. It has been used by with Dr Mindy Leow, a former post-doctoral statisticians as a means of explaining past fellow who has now taken a position with a While the intensity model heralds a better, financial activities, rather than predicting leading bank. Professor Crook says this is fairer mode of lending and borrowing money, the future of individual accounts. Professor not unusual. in reality banks will have to make millions of Crook is the first to use the model in this way. pounds of investment to implement the Financial review “Because we work so closely with numerous findings. There are also organisational “We are going under the bonnet of credit financial organisations – sharing our ideas hurdles to overcome before a model such card banking here,” explains Professor and providing consultancy support– many of as this one can advance. Crook. “And right now we are working to the brightest minds, including a number of introduce macro-economic variables, my PhD students, are offered high-calibre “Changing something so fundamental to such as interest rates, house prices and jobs with them in order to develop their a bank needs approval at many layers. unemployment rates into the model. concepts more competitively.” And as the stakes are so high, it will take time for decisions to be made,” says “This may allow banks to more accurately As part of his role as Director of the Professor Crook. “Our model offers huge stress-test their portfolio to ensure they University’s Credit Research Centre, opportunities, and if lenders are willing to be are retaining enough capital to protect Professor Crook and colleagues organise courageous and imaginative, the UK could Appointments depositors, ultimately reducing the risk a bi-annual Credit Scoring and Credit pave the way for more effective and accurate of getting into difficulties in the event of Control Conference. Now in its 26th year, credit risk assessment.” a future financial crash.” the event drew more than 400 delegates from 39 countries to Edinburgh in 2015. Appendices

Dr Mindy Leow with Professor Jonathan Crook, outside the Bank of England, London. 20 Annual Review 2014/2015 Introduction Reaching out to inspire school pupils Features

How can we weigh the Earth? Fingerprint the This work not only engages and empowers young structure of a molecule? Grow baked beans? These are questions that University of people from disadvantaged backgrounds, it also Edinburgh students and researchers have been taking to classrooms, as part of provides a rich learning and research environment outreach projects to forge links between the University and local schools. for creative University students.

Ms Dee Isaacs Round-up One pioneering scheme, the GeoScience Outreach and Engagement programme, organised by Dr Jenny Tait, lecturer in the Nicholle developed a scheme for teachers to child in Scotland to enjoy an education School of GeoSciences, sets a challenge to borrow the equipment and worked with them that encourages them to be the best they final-year undergraduate students, to develop to enhance the learning experiences or pupils can be, and provides them with a passport projects for five- to 17-year-old pupils, in taking Advanced Higher Chemistry. The to future opportunity. schools around Edinburgh. scheme, now run by a team of chemistry PhD students, has trained more than 230 teachers But for Ms Isaacs, this is no one-way street:

“Our undergraduate students are working in and has seen 2,000 pupils experience and “This work not only engages and empowers Honorary graduates partnership with school teachers to develop learn from the kit. young people from disadvantaged projects which are educational, fun and backgrounds, it also provides a rich learning engaging,” explains Dr Tait. For Nicholle, it has been encouraging to see and research environment for creative how the scheme has increased enthusiasm University students.” Teaching materials are designed by for the subject of chemistry: “It’s amazing the students in line with the Scottish how this kit – and yes it comes in a suitcase! Encouraging aspirations for higher education Government’s Curriculum for Excellence – – has been so enthusiastically received by is the motivation for the University’s Dr David a model that aims to ensure all children teachers and pupils. Initiatives to raise Ward, a philosophy lecturer who, with a team develop the knowledge and skills they attainment in Scottish schools are about of volunteer postgraduate philosophy need to flourish in life, learning and work. increasing learners’ ambitions and students, and colleagues from Moray House Awards & achievements aspirations. This scheme takes real analytical School of Education, presents some of life’s “I continue to be amazed with the creativity techniques to pupils, inspiring them to biggest questions to classrooms to help the students show in developing projects,” pursue a potential career in chemistry.” pupils cultivate skills for constructive debate. reflects Dr Tait. “We’ve had everything from hands-on geology, where school pupils get Working with music in marginalised Research themes of Edinburgh’s philosophy to see a sample of a meteorite, to students communities has been the motivation for department – rated second in the UK in the explaining the importance of honeybees to Ms Dee Isaacs, a lecturer at the University’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework – feed school pupils.” Reid School of Music. Over the past 14 into these school workshops, which also years, seven music theatre projects have align with the Scottish Government’s The programme has proven successful been devised by her Music in the Community Curriculum for Excellence. in improving students’ career prospects. project, involving primary school children “Around 40 per cent of our students have from areas of deprivation in Edinburgh. “A growing body of research shows the Financial review found employment as a result of, or related Projects have taken place in creative hubs positive impact that philosophical discussion to, their outreach project,” says Dr Tait. such as the National Museum of Scotland in the classroom has across the whole and the University’s Talbot Rice Gallery curriculum, through helping pupils to One final-year undergraduate Merdith as well as in the Royal Botanic Garden, articulate views and understand others Adams found the course rewarding and Edinburgh. Ms Isaacs believes that sympathetically,” explains Dr Ward. innovative. “It allows students to think prolonged engagement with the arts helps creatively, positively contribute to the children gain in confidence and self-esteem. The focus for the philosophy outreach Edinburgh community, and develop work is with secondary schools in workplace skills,” she says. “I’d recommend “Large-scale immersive arts programmes Edinburgh, particularly those with a the course to anyone looking to try create a real impact on children,” she says. low progression record. something a little different.” “They can change the perception of the Appointments importance of the arts in school curriculums. “Some of the questions we have explored An Edinburgh PhD student who combined Our productions with professional artists and to encourage critical thinking are: ‘Can war her passion for research with an outreach production teams have the highest artistic be the morally right thing to do? Can a robot programme is Ms Nicholle Bell, who standards, and it’s a collective endeavour ever be your friend? Can you really blame introduced the Royal Society of Chemistry’s that is transformative. Students give huge someone for doing the wrong thing?’” says Spectroscopy in a Suitcase scheme to energy towards this kind of work because Dr Ward. secondary schools across Scotland. they see the value of it, both on a personal The project brings research-level equipment level and for their futures.” “Working with school groups, we get into schools, to facilitate the teaching of reactions to the material which are very spectroscopy – a technique used in all Ms Isaacs ensures that the projects align different to the university classroom and Appendices analytical laboratories, such as forensics, to with the vision of the Raising Attainment for this in turn enhances teaching experiences identify and analyse chemical compounds. All programme, launched by the Scottish for our young scholars.” Dr Jenny Tait (left) with final-year undergraduate government in 2014, which aims for each Meredith Adams, outside the Institute of Geography. Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 23

Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Best Course Award Winner: Dr Malcolm Craig, Classics & School of History, Archaeology (for: The Nuclear and in Public, in Policy Cold War 1945 –1989) “I loved how every week was different and you never quite knew what was going to happen. For example we were asked to act as policy makers in a nuclear war simulation and write a ‘last order’ to be locked on a give could nuclear submarine. We feedback onanonymous the course and Malcolm wrote an informative weekly blog entry in which he reflected about each week’s class.” Heyningen Award The Van in Science for Teaching and Engineering Winner: Dr Iain Murray, School of Informatics “He prepared practice exam questions (on top of past exams) and told us to submit the answers for feedback. He will always try to provide us with ways to approach an complicated concepts from intuitive perspective. He has a mid-semester course survey so we can provide anonymous feedback on how the course is going.” The Kendell Award for Award The Kendell in Medicine Teaching Winner: Professor Jamie Davies, Sciences School of Biomedical interesting “He made the material whilst and easy to understand, the asking us to think about reminding possible theories and when us to exercise caution others’ researching or reading also went research papers. He out of his way to provide extra learning materials, which are extremely helpful.” Best Learning Community Winner: Ms Muireann Crowley, School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures “She has worked tirelessly on a multitude of brilliant projects that have brought postgraduate researchers together not just from the departments within LLC, but across the College of Humanities & Social Science. She has led many projects and she has also been heavily involved in representing postgraduate students on various committees.”

The Ian Campbell Award in the Humanities for Teaching and Social Sciences Winner: Dr Emile Chabal, School Classics & Archaeology of History, “He runs extra source workshops besides our seminars, which are always so interesting, and is very proactive in ensuring we have easy access to the best resources and books for our course. He’s also trying the new – and I am told radical – approach of not having an exam at the end of the course which I like as it reflects far more of our learning.” The Award for Teaching for Teaching The Award Medicine in Veterinary Winner:, Dr Gurå Bergkvist The Royal (Dick) School of Studies Veterinary “She shows an unprecedented level of excitement for the topics she lectures on. She has constructed videos for us as a means of review and is very friendly to talk to and approachable with any questions the student may have. She encourages respect and gives clinical examples in class that both contribute to employability in the future.” Best Student Who Tutors Award Best Student Who Tutors Winner: Dr Ahmad Al-Remal, School of Engineering “He took so much of his free time to write guides on how to approach the tutorial questions and teach us the best practice, and was always willing to reply to any further queries. He was keen to participate in a revision session organised by Class Reps and was always willing to give us the broader picture – not just how to do a question but what it implies in real life.” Best Feedback Award Best Feedback Copson, Winner: Dr Lynne Edinburgh Law School “She routinely gives over a page long of feedback, explaining strengths, weaknesses and ways of improving. She gives students additional opportunities for feedback with informative assessments. Her feedback has helped me achieve the highest grades I’ve ever received and helped me get the most out of this course.”

Supporting Students’ Learning Award Winner:, Ms Yvonne Hodgson Student Disability Service “Yvonne has been a constant companion throughout my She has university journey. helped me work through very difficult times, sometimes arising from my own health obstacles as a disabled student. She has also been there to celebrate achievements.” Best Personal Tutor Award Tutor Best Personal , Winner: Dr Alison Koslowski Science School of Social & Political “She has taken the time to understand me and how she can best support my education and experience here at Edinburgh. Alison has confidence in me and it’s motivating me to study hard for exams. It’s incredible to feel like someone has your back here at university and I know that she will always do her absolute best to help whatever situation I find myself in.”

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Awards 2014–15Awards The EUSA Teaching Teaching EUSA The Here we celebrate these staff achievements and share Here we celebrate these staff achievements winners, from some of the details of what made them who felt strongly the transcripts of nominating students, the staff had enough to put into writing what a difference made to their Edinburgh experience. This year a student panel sifted through 3,000 nominations This year a student panel sifted through their awards at a to select their winners, who received ceremony in April 2015. student-organised Edinburgh University Students’ Association has been Students’ Association has been Edinburgh University staff with its special Teaching rewarding Edinburgh awards recognise since 2009. The each year, Awards, staff and peer support leaders the teachers, support positive impact on students’ who make an enormously learning experiences. 22 Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 25 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual December September January November August October December results revealed Research Excellence Framework research Edinburgh’s position as one of Britain’s leading of the 2014 universities was reaffirmed by the results (REF). The REF placed Research Excellence Framework institution, Edinburgh as Scotland’s top-ranked research having at least with each of the University’s three Colleges one research area ranked top in the UK. The results activity is revealed that 83% of the University’s research are classified in the highest categories – 4* and 3* – which Based on as ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’. the quality and breadth of its research, Edinburgh has been rated fourth in the UK. Shortly after this announcement, the University’s reputation as a world- leading institution was also reaffirmed when it came Reputation Higher Education World 29th in the Times Rankings, which surveys the top 100 most powerful university brands. January Scholarships for young scientists announced Some 70 students from around the world will be able to study for undergraduate degrees at the University thanks to a new scheme, funded by global logistics company The DHL through the DHL UK Foundation. Deutsche Post initiative is intended to support aspiring young people of limited means to pursue a world-class education in science. These young talented scientists and engineers of the future will benefit from a £750,000 scholarship fund. Students selected to take part may also benefit from placement opportunities and exchange programmes at DHL’s UK business divisions. Students who qualify for the scholarships will receive £2,000 each year for up to five years of their course. The scheme is scheduled to support 14 or 15 and will science and engineering students each year, operate for 10 years in total, beginning in autumn 2015. November remembered War First World took part in a range of events University staff and students the outbreak of the First World to mark 100 years since The events, which will continue to take place over the War. into the conflict next four years, aim to offer fresh insight on the people and reflect on the impact of the Great War brought a of Scotland and the wider world. November ’ and Wounding Deeds, Weapons and new exhibition, ‘War women’s developed by Ms Yvonne McEwen, exploring introduced a role in warfare. Professor Jolyon Mitchell screening of Wooden Crosses, a film chronicling the life University of a student in the trenches, and Edinburgh of war and Music Society concert reflected on themes in the peace through music – from Haydn’s interpretation Johnston’s in to Edinburgh composer Ken 18th century, the 21st.

Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual is a successful six-week Football – More than a Game is a successful six-week online course, first run in October 2014, which examines improve lives football’s ability to bring people together, and raise educational attainment. The Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC, open to everyone, involved a mix of teaching styles, including video presentations, online debates and discussions about the most popular covered club rivalries, corruption sport on Earth. Topics and politics with one section of the course given over to Didier Drogba and his contribution to the peace process the with in the Ivory Coast. Developed in conjunction contributors included TV presenter Cup, World Homeless Alan Cup founder Mel World Hansen and Homeless Young. who received an honorary degree Cup winner Pelé, World also made an appearance. from the University, October MOOC launched Football A week of celebrations began with a vibrant dance and A week of celebrations began with a vibrant Other Crew. music performance by the Edinburgh Bhangra by Hermann events included a photography exhibition wider society of Rodrigues examining the integration into University’s Asian ethnic groups in Scotland, and the of its rare Centre for Research Collections display A highlight of manuscripts from the Indian subcontinent. Desai MP, the week was a lecture by Lord Meghnad Bhushan, who delivered a lecture recipient of the Padma agenda’. entitled ‘India in South Asia: the unfinished an Edinburgh’s annual Namaste party provided opportunity for new students from India and South Asia to The week concluded with meet fellow students and staff. the Muslim festival, Bakri-Eid, with a grand biryani dinner organised by the Centre for South Asian Studies, the India Institute, the South Asian Students Association and the University’s International Office. September celebrated India and South Asia Week August illuminated by film Old College quad was transformed into an open-air The Old College quad series of film screenings. a week-long cinema in August for of the As well as enjoying the atmospheric surrounding to bring a Old College, festival-goers had the opportunity stars on the quad picnic and watch classic films under the the week, lawn. There were themed evenings throughout by the Coen including a night dedicated to films directed with Danny brothers, an Edinburgh-themed evening dark comedy Restless Boyle’s infamous Trainspotting, Natives and romantic comedy One Day. There were also free family matinees showing Shrek and How to Train also were Dragon. Short films by ECA students Your screened each evening.

Our Review of the year showcases a selection showcases a of the year Our Review of the highlights year has been a year 2014/15. The past from the University busy and eventful much which the University has been one in new advances in as it continues to make in the spotlight and innovation.research, teaching Review of the year of Review 24 Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 27 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual February March June May April July July Mysteries of deep space unveiled New images of deep space are helping shed light on dark the invisible material that accounts for more than matter, 80% of all the matter in the universe, but is little understood. The images are the first from an international project, co-led by staff in the School of Physics & which seeks to understand how much dark Astronomy, matter is contained in groups of galaxies. Researchers analysed images of more than two million galaxies, and used their results typically 5.5 billion light years away, to calculate precise measurements of the influence of dark They examined how light emitted by galaxies is matter. distorted by the pull of gravity as it passes massive They also showed that the brightest clumps of dark matter. galaxy in each group nearly always sits at the centre of the dark matter clump that surrounds it. This is the clearest demonstration to date of this phenomenon, predicted by theories of galaxy formation. May espionage uncovered Secrets of of espionage throughout history were The twists and turns at the during a literary Spy Week examined and celebrated spy films, Screenings of classic University in May. of Graham Greene’s classic including adaptations place at Edinburgh Filmhouse, espionage novels, took Edinburgh department of English with introductions from place of Academics also examined the literature staff. lives and the role of fiction during and secrecy in our social after the Charles Scots-born spy novelist Cold War. English literature at the University, studied who Cumming, Crime Writers’ Association Ian and was awarded the in 2012, also gave a talk. The week Fleming Steel Dagger Library was organised in partnership with the National of Scotland, Edinburgh Filmhouse, and Blackwell’s Own Spy Fiction workshop Bookshop. A Publish Your Stevens, the author of 14 Tim writer by best-selling attended. espionage thrillers, was particularly well June sporting stars welcomed World-class of Britain’s A world champion, an archery star and one list of sporting most successful hockey players joined the Swedish greats in the University’s Sports Hall of Fame. was the orienteering world champion Linnea Gustafsson into the Hall of first international student to be inducted archery Joining her in June were European Fame. sport while a champion Naomi Jones, who took up the and hockey player Stephen Dick, student at the University, Britain and has who has 149 caps for Scotland and Great career. scored more than 25 goals during his international by the newcomers were welcomed The Hall of Fame fellow athletes, Principal, alongside current students and at the University’s annual celebration of sporting dinner. excellence, the Blues and Colours sports

Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual April £25.7 million funding boost secured A £25.7 million investment by the UK Government will enable the University to create a new biology complex with world-leading laboratory space for 350 researchers, and The two projects Repair. establish a new Centre for Tissue were the only Scottish bids to secure funding in a fiercely competitive round of awards from the UK Research More than £50 million has Investment Fund. Partnership charity and philanthropic been leveraged from industry, funds to double-match the investment. £15 million will help to create a research complex that integrates three research areas: infection and global health, synthetic biology and epigenetics. The new biology complex will also include facilities for community engagement. £10.7 million will enable the creation of a Centre for Tissue bringing together experts in inflammation and Repair, scarring, and tissue regeneration. March of fashion previewed Future and vintage Space-age holidays, old family photographs for the couture provided some of the inspiration Parisienne were University’s fashion students, whose designs Art’s SHOW 2015. showcased in the Edinburgh College of to provide The College’s sculpture court was transformed catwalk a striking backdrop for the seven multimedia to see the work shows, giving local audiences the chance designers. of some of Scotland’s most talented new of Art are the only students at Edinburgh College Fashion on the catwalk at ones in Scotland to showcase their work in London. In 2013, Week the annual Graduate Fashion one of the final-year student Lauren Smith was awarded Fashion world’s top awards for graduates at London George Gold Award Week the Graduate Fashion Week, for best collection. Edinburgh’s smallest playground was transformed when Edinburgh’s smallest gave it a major overhaul in University staff and students from with parents and teachers early spring. Working School, and environmental charity Preston Street Primary Greenworks, they created new and social enterprise and added a splash of vibrant places to hide and climb, A team from the Edinburgh colour to the playground. and Landscape Architecture and School of Architecture of Education were challenged to Moray House School a range of creative renovations in design and implement a week- Innovative Learning Week, one week, as part of that replace regular timetables long programme of events new skills, with opportunities for students to develop The community. prepare for employment and work in the of outdoor students worked together to build a range a wish list created furniture and play equipment, based on by pupils. February transformed School playground Review of the year of Review 26 Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 29 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Professor Bik May Amy Tsui Chancellor Pro-Vice and Vice-President and Learning), (Teaching the University of Hong Kong Doctor of Education Mr Steve Pateman University benefactor Professor Sir John Professor Sir John Edward Tooke The President, Former Academy of Medical Sciences, Vice Provost (Health), Head of Medical School, University College London Doctor of Science Dame Sarah Storey Paralympic gold medallist Doctor honoris causa Mr Evan Shaw Parker Contemporary musician Doctor of Music Mr Nicholas Reyntiens Patrick Stained glass artist and designer Doctor honoris causa Dame Stella Rimington Director Former General M15 and author Doctor honoris causa Professor Thomas James Simpson Alfred Capper Pass the Chair of Chemistry, University of Bristol Doctor of Science Mr David Alan Nicholls Novelist and screenwriter Doctor of Letters Professor Martin Loughlin Professor of Public London School Law, of Economics Doctor of Laws Rt Hon Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale of Patron Politician, Project African Wilderness and Ambassador for Action for Children UK Doctor honoris causa Professor Stuart Kinnaird Monro Vice-Convener Former of Court and Scientific Director of Our Dynamic Earth Doctor of Science Mr Colin Stuart Montgomerie Golfer Doctor honoris causa Professor George Emanuel Lewis Edwin H Case Professor of American Music, Colombia University Doctor of Music Professor Lajos Hanzo Chair of Telecommunications, the University of Southampton Doctor of Science Professor Robert Holman Community worker and anti-poverty campaigner Doctor of Science in Social Science Hopkins Mr Tim Director of Equality Network Doctor honoris causa Mr Peter Johan Hustinx European Data Former Protection Supervisor Doctor of Science in Social Science Mr Luke Thomas Dowdney and Director Founder of Fight for Peace Doctor honoris causa Professor Christopher L Eisgruber President of Princeton University Doctor honoris causa Gianotti Ms Fabiola of the Director-General European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) Doctor of Science Professor Ulrike Beisiegel President of the University of Göttingen Doctor of Science Mr William Dalrymple Historian, writer and critic Doctor of Letters

Professor Howard S Becker Retired Professor of Sociology and musician Doctor of Science in Social Science Professor Sir David Charles Baulcombe Regius Professor of Botany and Royal Society Research the University Professor, of Cambridge Doctor of Science Professor Eva Barbro Helen Åkesson Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University Doctor of Science Mr Dominic Stephen Barton Global Managing McKinsey Director, & Company Doctor of Science in Social Science Mr Gordon Lewis Aikman MND campaigner and former EUSA Sabbatical Officer Doctor honoris causa

Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual and other distinctions other and and 31 July 2015. 1 August 2014

Those awarded honoraryThose awarded degrees between Honorary graduations 28 Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 31 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual International acclaim honour French Dr Igor Štiks, a Leverhulme early career in History of Art, received the chevalier Fellow des arts et des lettres (a knight of arts and literature). The award, bestowed by the Ministry of Culture, is one of the most French honours. prestigious French Genetics Society of America Professor Brian Charlesworth from the School of Biological Sciences was awarded the Genetics Society of America’s Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal for lifetime achievement in the field of genetics. The award recognises Professor Charlesworth’s profound impact on our understanding of population genetics and evolutionary biology. Royal Society of Higgs, Emeritus Professor Peter was awarded the Copley Theoretical Physics, contribution to Medal for his fundamental his theory explaining the particle physics with particles. origin of mass in elementary Royal Society of Chemistry Professor Mark Bradley, School of Chemistry and the Queen’s Medical Research Institute, was awarded the Tilden Prize 2015 for his extensive interdisciplinary work in the area of chemical biology. Dr Sophie Harvey, a recent PhD graduate, 2015 for received the Ronald Belcher Award her outstanding innovation in native mass spectrometry of conformationally dynamic proteins, which was the focus of her thesis. Royal Society of Edinburgh Professor Jason Reese, Regius Professor in of Engineering and Director of Research the the School of Engineering, was awarded for his outstanding Medal 2015 Lord Kelvin contribution to the field of engineering.

nternational Canine Health Awards David Argyle, Head of the Royal (Dick) Studies and William Dick School of Veterinary Clinical Studies, was Professor of Veterinary his presented with an award in recognition of work identifying stem cells in cancer. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency at the Anne Dr David Hunt, Clinical Fellow Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, was awarded the Sir Derrick Dunlop Prize for contribution to drug safety. Royal Academy of Engineering Ltd, a University Artemis Intelligent Power won the 2015 MacRobert company, start-up the UK’s longest running and most Award, prestigious prize for engineering innovation. Dr Win Rampen, Chair in Energy Storage and Artemis Chairman, and Professor Stephen Salter, Senior Honorary and Artemis Non- Professorial Fellow were presented with Executive Director, the award. Royal Astronomical Society Royal Astronomical , a postdoctoral Dr Michal Michalowski of Physics & researcher in the School received the Royal Astronomical Astronomy, Society Winton for Astronomy, Capital Award postdoctoral which recognises the has shown the most fellow whose career promising development. Scholar Award Fulbright recent Edinburgh alumni were selected Two Scholars, one of the most as Fulbright prestigious scholarship programmes operating worldwide. Dr Philip Kaisary, an English Literature alumnus, received an award to carry out University in the USA, research at Vanderbilt and David Metcalfe, a Surgical Sciences alumnus, received an award to carry out research at Harvard University in the USA. Research recognition I Rising stars Royal Society of Edinburgh Trust Dr Martyn Pickersgill, Wellcome in Biomedical Ethics Senior Research Fellow Health Sciences, in the Centre for Population received the Henry Duncan Medal, an early career prize, for his research work and leadership potential in medical sociology, science and technology studies, and empirical bioethics; and for his commitment to public engagement and the advancement of social sciences. Making an impact BBC’s top 100 women , Vice-Principal Professor Lesley Yellowlees of Science & and Head of the College in the BBC’sEngineering, was named 100 list of influential women from around Women the world. Economic and Social Research Council The Celebrating Impact Prizes reward the successes of Economic and Social Research Council-funded researchers who have achieved outstanding economic or societal impacts. Professor Charlie Jeffery, Senior Vice-Principal, was named Impact Champion of 2015. Professor Richard Harrison of the University’s Business School won the prize for Outstanding Impact in Business jointly with his University of Glasgow colleague Professor Colin Mason. Nobel Prize Professor Edvard Moser and Professor Moser received the 2014 Prize May-Britt in Physiology or Medicine for their work on discoveries of spatial cells in the brain. husband-and-wife 1995 to 1997, the From researchers team worked as post-doctoral at the University’s Centre for Cognitive & Neural Systems. Edvard Moser is an Honorary Professor at Edinburgh. Fellowships Machinery Association for Computing , School of Informatics Professor Alan Bundy Fellowship Google Europe Doctoral , a PhD student in Mr Daniel Renshaw the Institute for Language, Cognition & Computation, was awarded a Google in Natural Europe Doctoral Fellowship Language Processing. Royal Society , Reader (Associate Komura Dr Taku Professor) in the Institute of Perception, Action & Behaviour in the School of , Industrial Wood Informatics, and Dr Tiffany Research Liaison in the School of Physics received Industry Fellowships. & Astronomy, Royal Society of Edinburgh to University of Edinburgh academics elected of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: the Fellowship Stem Clare Blackburn, Professor of Tissue Cell Biology; Alistair Borthwick, Professor Chambers, of Applied Hydrodynamics; Paul Professor of Pluripotent Stem Cell Biology; Charles Seaton Cockell, Professor of Astrobiology; David Gray, Head of the School Of Biological Sciences; Andrew Liddle, Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics; Guy Lloyd-Jones, Forbes Professor of Organic Chemistry; Hugh McCann, Head of the School of Engineering Imaging; and Professor of Tomographic Dorothy Miell, Professor of Social of Head of the College Psychology, Humanities & Social Science and Vice- , Professor of Principal; Jeffrey Pollard Resilience Biology and Director MRC/ University of Edinburgh Centre for Reproductive Health; Aziz Sheikh, Professor of Primary Care Research & Development; , Professor of Medical and Susan Welburn Director Molecular Epidemiology, Veterinary Global Health Academy and Vice-Principal Global Access. The Society also elected best-selling author and Edinburgh alumnus Ian Rankin as a Fellow. Society Trust/Royal Wellcome Dr Christos Gkogkas in the Centre for Integrative Physiology and the Patrick Wild a Sir Henry Centre was awarded Dale Fellowship.

University awards 2014 Chancellor’s Awards presented by These annual awards, are given the University’s Chancellor, relevance, in recognition of innovation, dedication in creativity and personal teaching and research. Professor Elizabeth Bomberg, Personal School of Chair in Environmental Politics, Science, received the Social & Political for Teaching. Award , Science Professor Margaret Frame Director of the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre and Research Director of the Medicine College of Medicine & Veterinary and Professor Jo Shaw, Salvesen Chair of European Institutions and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities, for Research. jointly received the Award Professor Nicholas Mills, Reader in British Heart Foundation Cardiology, Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow, Consultant Cardiologist at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, received the Rising Star Award. Principal’s Medals 2014 These medals are one of the most important both ways in which the University recognises support and academic staff or current students who have made outstanding contributions to both the University and wider communities. The Exceptional Service Medal was awarded to Ms Johanna Holtan, International Edinburgh Engagement Coordinator, University Students’ Association, in recognition of her “enormous contribution” in supporting the student community in all aspects of internationalisation. was The Service to the Community Award awarded to Ms Nicholle Bell, a PhD student for her innovation in the School of Chemistry, and practitioner skills in the field of public engagement and community outreach. Dalyell Prize for Excellence in Tam Engaging the Public with Science This annual prize rewards an individual or group for work with a focus on science communication. The 2015 award was given to Ms Sarah , Public Engagement, Outreach Keer-Keer and Communications Manager in the Trust University of Edinburgh’s Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology.

Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual New Year Honours List New Year Studies Work Bill Whyte, Professor of Social Justice, was appointed in Criminal and Youth justice in Scotland. CBE for services to youth Professor Stephen Hillier, Emeritus Professor and Honorary Professorial with a personal chair in reproductive Fellow, now retired, was appointed endocrinology, OBE for services to international higher education. Professor Nanette Mutrie, Chair of Physical Activity for Health, was appointed MBE for services to physical activity and health in Scotland. Birthday Honours List Ann Maxwell was appointed OBE for her charitable services to the treatment and care of epilepsy in children. The Muir Maxwell Centre at the University is funded by the by which was set up Muir Maxwell Trust, Ann and Jonny Maxwell after their son Muir was diagnosed with a severe form of epilepsy in infancy. Queen’s Honours A selection staff and associates bestowed upon members of of accolades 2014 and 31 July 2015. of Edinburgh between 1 August of the University Awards andAwards achievements 30 Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 33 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual – 4 5) 4 ( 31) ( 014 ,538 9,124 5 2 2014 3,003) 9,570) £’000 £’000 04,116 94,067 15,934 47,389 1 09,994 99,367 32,292 50,153 93,368 97,942 16,636 ( ( 30,400 33,439 2 1 2 1 4 2 4 6 105,298 192,644 2 2 780,630 747,191 297,942 378,095 106,521) (102,993) ( (102,993) 1,421,115 1,716,609 1,040,528 1,935,693 1,716,609

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Total expenditure Total Surplus on continuing operations after depreciation Surplus on continuing operations after for the year ended 31 July 31 the year ended account for expenditure income and Group Expenditure on prizes, scholarships, Expenditure on prizes, remains a priority studentships and bursaries £26 million. Depreciationand was in excess of £33.9 million. Interest rose 5.1 per cent to 1 per cent of total payable is less than expenditure and is down 1.4 per cent on last year. continued strength are pleased to report We in the University Group balance sheet. This strength was a key factor in securing the long term funding from which to invest in All balance transformational Estate Strategy. sheet financial metrics are resilient. The University continues to deliver a significant programme of estates developments and equipment procurement. The development pipeline of estates projects exceeds £1.5 billion over the next 10 years to support infrastructure developments that will deliver high-quality educational and research facilities. The above information reflects the audited accounts for the year to 31 July 2015, published in December 2015. Anyone interested in obtaining further information is invited to contact the University’s Finance Department. Despite the difficult financial climate the Despite the difficult financial to be successful University has continued grants and contracts. in winning research increased to £226 Research income has (£10 million) from million, up 4.4 per cent 2013/14. Other income (£151 million) is up 2 per cent from last year (£147 million) reflecting similar increases across a range of income sources. Endowment income remained strong at £10.5 million, while other interest receivable of £4.1 million was down slightly on last year due to reduced interest rates. Group expenditure increased year on year by 6.2 per cent, reflecting continued investment for growth. A university’s most valuable resource is to its staff and our salary and related costs sustain this resource in 2014/15 was £445 million. Staff costs as a proportion of total income was up by 1.9 per cent to 54.4 per cent. This proportion of staff costs to total income reduces to 53 per cent if RDEC income is included. Other costs, which include expenditure on subsidiary company activities, student accommodation, bursaries, premises costs and library services, have increased by £10 £6 million million (3 per cent) from last year. of this is accounted for by the University’s Estates refurbishment programme.

Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Our student population grew by 6.5 per cent fee income rose in the year to 35,255. Tuition by £27.7 million in the third year of the new UK fee regime, and also reflected increases in international student numbers. Apart from a small reduction in funding council grants income of 0.2 per cent, all other areas of income increased in comparison with the 2013/14 figures. Our continuing programme to recruit key Our continuing programme to recruit key academic staff has again supported our targeted increase in group income which increased by 4.9 per cent (£38 million) from per staff FTE Income the previous year. (full-time equivalent) increased by 0.9 per cent in 2014/15. In 2014/15 the University made a successful In 2014/15 the University tax rules (which are claim under the RDEC research and designed to incentivise 2012/13 and 2013/14 development) for the make a claim for financial years and will 2014/15 during the next financial year. The University has recognised the income of which it is reasonably assured of receiving as £21.8 million, which appears as an year exceptional item in the 2014/15 financial and in line with guidance from BUFDG, (British Universities Finance Directors Group) the corresponding tax deduction of £4.9 million has been recognised in taxation. Exceptional RDEC income is not considered in the comments, values and percentages quoted in this review unless otherwise stated. Highlights In an increasingly competitive environment we are pleased to have increased income increased pleased to have we are environment competitive In an increasingly of which surplus of 3.1 per cent, both and generated an operating by 4.9 per cent, the University and demonstrate how of our financial sustainability underline the quality its short financially to deal with is again well placed and longer term commitments. Financial review Financial 32 Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 35 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Professorships Professor Judy Hardy Enhanced Chair of Technology Science Education Professor Donal O’Carroll Chair of Stem Cell Biology Professor Mark Linne Chair of Combustion Engines Professor William Rampen Chair of Energy Storage Professor David Reay Enhanced Chair of Technology Science Education Professor Christopher Sangwin Enhanced Chair of Technology Science Education Professor Jonathan Silvertown Enhanced Chair of Technology Science Education Professor Ying Zheng Chair of Chemical Reaction/ Catalysis Engineering Honorary Professorships Professor Ian Abrahams School of Mathematics Professor Michael Cates School of Physics and Astonomy Professor Andrew Chadwick School of GeoSciences Professor Mark Inall School of GeoSciences Professor David Manning School of GeoSciences Professor Simon Milne School of Biological Sciences

College of Science of Science College & Engineering Chairs Personal Boyle Professor Peter Chair of Computational Personal Quantum Field Theory Professor Dominic Campopiano Chair of Industrial Biocatalysis Personal Kamenev Professor Konstantin Chair of Extreme Personal Conditions Engineering Professor Ross McLure Chair of Extragalactic Astrophysics Personal Professor Alexander Murphy Chair of Nuclear Personal Astrophysics and Particle Professor Helen Pain Chair of Adaptive Personal Learning Environments Professor Sarah Reece Chair of Evolutionary Parasitology Personal Professor Susan Rigby Chair of Higher Education Personal Learning Contexts Stevens Professor Perdita Chair of Mathematics Personal of Software Engineering Wilson Professor Valerie Chair of Early Personal Embryo Development Honorary Professorships Professor Shona Chattarji School of Clincial Sciences Professor Rory Duncan School of Biomedical Sciences Professor Alasdair Gray School of Clincial Sciences Professor Colin Howie School of Clincial Sciences Matthews Professor Paul Medicine College of Medicine and Veterinary Professor Edvard Moser School of Biomedical Sciences Professor John Murchison School of Clincial Sciences Professor Christopher West Studies Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary

& Veterinary Medicine & Veterinary College of Medicine of Medicine College Chairs Personal Professor Julia Dorin Chair of Genetics Personal of Host Defence Professor Andrew Horne Chair of Gynaecology Personal and Reproductive Sciences Professor Nicholas Morton Chair of Molecular Metabolism Personal Professor Jackie Price Chair of Molecular Epidemiology Personal Professor Roy Robertson Chair of Addiction Medicine Personal Professor Norah Spears Chair of Reproductive Physiology Personal Professor Alistair Williams Chair of Gynaecological Pathology Personal Professorships Professor Simon Herrington of Cancer Chair of Molecular Pathology Professor Steve Kemp Livestock Chair of Tropical Genetics and Health Professor Andrew Morris Chair of Medicine Piccardo Professor Pedro Chair of Neuropathology Professor Craig Ritchie Chair of Psychiatry Professor Moira Whyte Chair of Adult Respiratory Medicine Professorships Fielding Professor Penny Literature Grierson Chair of English Professor David Finkelstein Chair of Continuing Education Professor Berend Jacobsen Chair of Financial Markets Professor Judy Robertson Chair of Digital Learning Honorary Professorships Barnes Professor Timothy Classics & Archaeology School of History, Professor John Bintliff Classics & Archaeology School of History, Professor Eric Clive Edinburgh Law School Professor Angus Cockburn Business School Professor Helena Forsas-Scott School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures Joyce Professor Patrick Classics & Archaeology School of History, Professor Shirley Leitch Business School Mellars Professor Sir Paul Classics & Archaeology School of History, Professor David Milner Psychology School of Philosophy, & Language Sciences Professor Marie H Murphy Moray House School of Education Professor Christopher Oliver Moray House School of Education Professor Eileen Scanlon Moray House School of Education Professor Isobel Sharp Business School Professor Alan Watson Edinburgh Law School Professor Niall Whitty Edinburgh Law School Professor Reinhard Zimmermann Edinburgh Law School

Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Personal Chairs Personal Abrahams Professor Sharon Chair of Neuropsychology Personal Professor Sian Bayne Chair of Digital Education Personal Foster Professor Paul Chair of New Testament Personal and Early Christianity Professor Richard Freeman Chair of Social Science Personal and Public Policy Professor Joachim Gentz Chair of Chinese Personal Philosophy and Religion Professor Miles Glendinning Chair of Architectural Conservation Personal Professor Ian Harper Chair of Anthropology Personal of Health and Development Professor Jonathan Hearn Chair of Political Personal and Historical Sociology Kelly Professor Tobias Chair of Political Personal and Legal Anthropology Professor Laura Macgregor Chair of Commercial Contract Law Personal Professor Nicola McEwen Politics Chair of Territorial Personal Professor Elisa Morgera Chair of Global Environment Law Personal Professor Steve Sturdy Chair of Sociology Personal of Medical Knowledge College of Humanities of Humanities College Science & Social

Appointments commenced between 1 August 2014 and 31 July 2015 and 31 July 1 August 2014 between commenced Appointments Appointments 34 Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 37 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual International EU

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Student numbers Student Appendix 1 Appendix 36 Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 39

Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Mrs Virginia Maciver Mrs Virginia Maciver and Mrs Rosalind Maudslay McCall Smith CBE McGhie QC McGhie QC Mrs Morag McIntyre Memorial Trust Research Council Mr Iain Macdonald The late Mr Angus MacDonald The late Miss Jean MacDonald Mr John MacFarlane and Mr W K Maciver CBE Mr George Mackintosh Mrs Juliet Maclennan Dr Mary Macleod Dr Halina Marszalek-Lewicka Mr George Massie Mr David A Massingham Sir George Mathewson Mr Richard H Maudslay CBE Professor R Alexander MBChB Class of 1964 Mrs Kay R McCorquodale Mr David A McCorquodale Mr Ger McGauley The Hon Lord James Mr Donald McGregor Ms Hannah McHugh Rev Dr John McIndoe Very Mr David and Dr Andrew McKechanie Sir Ian McKellen Mr John D McNeil Mrs Daphne Merrills Ltd Metrol Technology Mr David M Millar OBE Mrs Lesley Millar Mrs C Miller Sir Ronald Miller CBE Milne Dr Keith Lord Minginish QC Misses Barrie Charitable Trust The late Ms Margaret Mitchell Dr A Ross K Mitchell Dr Marc Moens Miss Lisa Money Mr F Morgan Dr George Morris Lord Edward Mowbray Mr and Mrs William Donald’s Miss Catherine Muirden Mr James Murray Mrs Kirstin Murray Mr Chris & Mrs Krista Murray Natural Environment Miss Jessica Ng Mrs Aileen Nimmo Professor Joe Norton * Mr James O’Dowd Dr Neil Oliver and Mrs Catherine Gray of Scotland FRS FRSE Kidney Cancer Professor James Gray OBE Professor James Gray Great Expectations Foundation Church Greenbank Parish Mrs Susan Haisman Mrs Judith A Halkerston Mr T J D Hall Dr Mary Hall Dr Graham Hamilton * Hamilton & Inches Mr Ian Harley Rev Dr Harriet Harris Dr Roy Harris OBE Dr Erik Hauge Mr Atholl G Hay Mr Alastair C Hay * Henry Luce Foundation Mr Alan and Mrs Elizabeth Herd Professor William Hill OBE J Holliday Mr Peter The Rt Hon Lord Hope Mr Malcolm Innes Ms Enas Ismail A Ivory Mrs Felicity for James Whale Fund Mr Andrew Jamieson The late Mr John Jardine Mr David Jeenes Mrs Margaret J Jones The late Dr Jadwiga Karnicki Mr Alistair Kennedy Mrs Joan D Kidd Mr James O Kirk Professor Krechimir Krnjevic Mr John Laffey Dr Stuart Laing The late Mr Thomas Laing-Reilly Lamb Mr Peter Miss Amy Langridge Mrs Jacqueline Lannigan The late Mrs Ann Lapsley Mr Conor Lavery Mrs Rachel Le Derf Mr Alexander Leslie Mr Alan P Liebing Mr John N Lloyd The late Ms Marion Lockerbie Mr Gregor R Logan Dr Christopher Lord Miss Sharon Lorimer and Mrs Kate Lough Mr Keith Mrs Mary Love The late Dr John Lundie Dr Hermione Lyall Professor James R Lyon Dr Ian Macdonald

Technologies Ms Susan D’Amico Mrs Eleanor Eadie Ms Nicole Allison of Toronto London Club Association (EUSA) & Investment Club QC FRSE KCMG Thomas & Clemence Fonville & Bank Gardens Of Scotland Cummins Generator Cummins Generator Mr Mario and Mr Stuart J Davies Mrs Joyce Denny Dialog Semiconductor Mr Stewart Dick Mr Adam Dixon Mr Jeff Drever Mr Robert J Dryburgh The late Mr Eric Dykes Mr Knut Dyremyhr Mr Dugald and Mr Robert Eden and Edinburgh University Club Edinburgh University Edinburgh University Students’ Edinburgh University Trading Professor Sir David Edward Mr Goetz Eggelhoefer Emma Cameron Foundation * Florence Fearrington * Dr Roualeyn Fenton-May Professor David Fergusson Dr Brian Fleming Mr Joost, Mrs Catherine, Dr John Forbes Rev (Mrs) Margaret Forrester Mr Jake Franks KCVO Sir Charles A Fraser Dr James French Fundraising FreshAir Miss Alex Friel Mr Jamie Furniss Miss Irene Garden Gardeners of Moray Place Mrs Margaret M Garvie Geological Society of London Gibb The late Dr John Watson Mrs Elspeth Gibbon Dr Angus Gibson Ms Marlene H Gilchrist Professor Maggie Gill OBE Golden Retriever Club Goldman Sachs Ltd * Mr Morton Gould Mr Malcolm Gourlay Mr Jay Grainger Mr Murray Grant

Dr Isobel Bader * of Lochbroom FSAI Hon FRIAS Canning Charitable Trust and Lady Coulsfield Appendix 3 Appendix Benefactions August 2014 to 31 July 2015 Giving from 1 who wish to remain anonymous. to all donors, including those The University is grateful £1000–£4,999 Trust A Sinclair Henderson Mr Andrew Agnew Alireza Mr Teymour Dr William Allan Mr John Balfour Allan The late Mr Ahmad Amara * Amati Global Investors Apple Inc Limited Ardbarron Trust Dr Edward Arens * Mrs Cynthia Atkinson Dr Alfred Bader CBE and Mr Geoff Ball FCA Ms Joanna Barclay Barclay Viewforth Church Barclays Bank Mr Charles Beauchamp Bell Mr Alan and Mrs Frances Mr David P Bendix Dr Alastair Berry * Mr Bruce Beveridge Dr Stuart Blackie Miss Dorothy Boardman Miss Christina Borthwick BP Foundation Ms Lorna C Brazell Bt G Brooke Sir Francis Mrs Jane M Broome Mrs Jann Brown Mr Alexander Brownlie Mrs Ada Brownlie MBE Buchan Mr W M and Mrs Toni Mrs Ann Burleigh Mr Richard Burns Mrs Mary C Cadbury Mrs Fiona Cameron Mrs Celia Cameron The Rt Hon The Lord Cameron Dr Ewen Campbell * Mr I Stuart Campbell Mr Henry and Mrs Frances Dr Andrew Chisholm Dr James Clunie The late Mrs Miriam Cohen Colonel T R Broughton’s Mrs Jean P Colquhoun The Rt Hon Lord Coulsfield Rev Susan Cowell The late Mrs Fiona Cowles Dr Robert Craig Mr Richard Cresswell Crowe Sheriff Frank Mrs Ann Cullen Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total Total 6,111 5,750 5,463 5,505 4,876 3,821 5,349 4,839 4,378 4,161 59,555 55,337 50,934 47,559 40,738 47,258 47,822 45,655 48,783 45,214 . Applications Acceptances

3,714 3,385 3,177 3,224 2,895 2,190 2,870 2,618 2,442 2,319 34,898 32,353 29,227 27,188 22,189 25,657 25,299 24,462 26,609 24,636 Women Women Women Women Women Women Women Women Women Women Men Men Men Men Men Men Men Men Men Men 2,395 2,365 2,286 2,281 1,981 1,631 2,479 2,221 1,936 1,842 24,563 22,984 21,707 20,371 18,549 21,601 22,523 21,193 22,174 20,578 ENTRY YEAR

Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Acceptances Applications* 2015 Acceptances Applications* Acceptances 2014 Applications* 2013 Acceptances Applications* 2012 Acceptances Applications* Acceptances 2011 Applications* 2010 Acceptances Applications* 2009 Acceptances Applications* Acceptances 2008** Applications* 2007 Acceptances Applications* Figures for 2011 include Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) acceptances but exclude ECA applications. Figures from 2012 onwards include both ECA applications and acceptances. Please note: 2006 Please note: the following year * Number of applications received in each cycle for entry in the same year or deferred entry ** UCAS reduced the number of applications per applicant from six to five from the 2008 entry cycle. ** UCAS reduced the number of applications per applicant from six to five from the 2008 entry

Undergraduate applications and acceptances applications Undergraduate Appendix 2 Appendix 38 Introduction Features Round-up Honorary graduates Awards & achievements Financial review Appointments Appendices 41 Annual Review 2014/2015 Annual Phillipps MA Taylor) Mr George W Mitchell Miss Anne Montgomery Mr Iain More Mr Roger Mosedale Dr Joan Mulholland Miss Kathleen Patrick Dr Christina Picton Mr Lessel J Rennie Ms Agnes H Richardson Mrs Agnes Scott Mr Brian Shearey Shearey Mrs Lyn Mr James Stewart Mr Andrew Summerson Ms Sue Hobbs (nee Mrs Caroline Thomas Mrs Sheila Warren Professor J Philip Welch Dr Marian Wilson CBE Mrs Eilidh Wiseman Ms Ros Young Maclean Dr Gavin Cree Dr Graeme Cruickshank Ms Doreen Davidson Donald MBE Dr Patricia M Duncan Mr Kenneth Mr Hugh J Elder Fleming Miss Frances Professor Ronald Fraser Dr Alastair Fraser Dr Stephen Holmes Dr Jessie Houston Jackson Dr Peter Rev Margaret Johnston Mrs Margaret J Jones Ms Ann Jones Mrs Linda Keen Ms Kathleen Kennedy Mrs Elinor W King Dr Norman King OBE Ms Katie M Lauriston Mr Robert Lawrie Professor Norman Dr Philip Mason Mrs Elizabeth McKibben Mr John Milligan Theresa Sackler 1988 Theresa Sackler 1988 Foundation Trust Charitable Trust Edinburgh USA Inc * Development Trust Development The Moffat Charitable The Moffat Charitable The RS Macdonald The University of Foundation The Wolfson Theirworld Dr John Melvin Thomas * The late Ms Anthea Webb Dr Alfred Wild Support for Worldwide Carlyle Circle New members for the year 2014/15: Dr Stephen Bondurant Miss Sheila Boughton Dr Conor Boyd Dr Anne Boyle Miss Marjorie Brown Dr John Brown rust Inc, an organisation formed to advance the purpose of the University of Edinburgh. Scotland Mrs Chistina McClean Shepherd MBE C Parry Charitable Trust Rushbrook CBE Dr Joy Sypert * Google UK Limited Heritage Lottery Fund Mr David Hill The late Dr William Hutton Foundation John Templeton The late Dr Arthur Kitchin Professor E F K Koerner Lloyds Banking Group Mrs Anne M McFarlane The late Dr Ian McGregor Mr David Colin McLean and Mirrey The late Mrs Lynne Miss Gladys Ogilvy- The late Mrs Agnes Row Fogo The late Dr Frank The late Mrs V Salmon Santander Plc Dr George and The Dr Mortimer and + Donors to the University of Edinburgh USA Development T Charities Trust Fortune

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Overseas – Universities etc contined UK – Government Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) 213 Glasgow Caledonian University 397 Sponsor Project total £’000 Universitat Bielefeld 37 Heriot-Watt University 604 Aberdeenshire Council 4 University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS), The 15 Higher Education Academy 20 British Geological Survey 5 University of California, San Diego 59 Imperial College 752 Chief Scientist Office - Scotland 4,989 University of Chicago 18 James Hutton Institute, The 37 Children’s Commissioner 16 University of Copenhagen 15 Kings College London 395 Commonwealth Scholarships 94 University of Florida 31 London School of Economics & Defence Science and Political Science 39 University of Georgia 9 Technology Laboratory 192 Loughborough University 151 University of Melbourne, The 8 Department for Environment, Food and University of Minnesota 16 Rural Affairs 299 Royal Veterinary College 377 University of Pennsylvania 66 Department for International Development 4,366 Soillse 21 University of Stavanger 32 Department of Energy and Climate Change 896 University College London 1,195 University of Tromso 6 Department of Health 12,097 University of Aberdeen 498 Vrije Universiteit Brussel 36 Forest Research 5 University of Bath 75 Yale University 76 Forestry Commission 11 University of Birmingham 278 1,382 Forestry Commission Scotland 50 University of Brighton 6 Total from charities, industry and Government Communications Headquarters 33 University of Bristol 1,487 other institutions £’000 85,750 Health Promotion Fife 30 University of Cambridge 323 Heritage Lottery Fund 53 University of Dundee 1,393

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UK – Universities etc Sponsor Project total £’000 Note: EUNIC 7 Sponsor Project total £’000 The above list sets out the total project value European Commission 31,243 Bangor University 1 of research grants funded from these sponsors. The sponsor will have contributed this whole European Metrology Research Programme 206 Brunel University London 186 amount, with the exception of some governmental European Regional Development Fund 92 Cardiff University 2,776 sources (including research councils) and Fonds National de la Recherche 3 charitable sources, who fund the majority, Durham University 5 with the balance being received indirectly 31,551 Edinburgh Napier University 6 via the Scottish Funding Council. The first co-created degree launched between Edinburgh & Zhejiang Universities £237.4 million invested in new companies in past year Influencing the world since 1583 This publication is available online at www.ed.ac.uk/annual-review. It can also be made available in alternative formats on request.

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