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Graduation 2014. Wednesday 23 July 2014 the University of Sheffield Graduation 2014. Wednesday 23 July 2014 The University of Sheffield Your graduation day is a special day for you and your family, a day for celebrating your achievements and looking forward to a bright future. As a graduate of the University of Sheffield you have every reason to be proud. You are joining a long tradition of excellence stretching back more than 100 years. The University of Sheffield was founded with the amalgamation of the School of Medicine, Sheffield Technical School and Firth College. In 1905, we received a Royal Charter and Firth Court was officially opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. At that time, there were 363 students reading for degrees in arts, pure science, medicine and applied science. By the time of our centenary, there were over 25,000 students from more than 100 countries, across 70 academic departments. Today, a degree from Sheffield is recognised all over the world as a hallmark of academic excellence. We are proud of our graduates and we are confident that you will make a difference wherever you choose to build your future. With every generation of graduates, our university goes from strength to strength. This is the original fundraising poster from 1904/1905 which helped raise donations for the University of Sheffield. Over £50,000 (worth more than £15 million today) was donated by steelworkers, coal miners, factory workers and the people of Sheffield in penny donations to help found the University. A century on, the University is now rated as one of the top world universities – according to the Shanghai Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities. The University of Sheffield Graduation: Wednesday 23 July 2014 1 Welcome from the Vice-Chancellor For all of us here at the University, this is one of the high points in the year, as we congratulate you on your achievements and share with you in your hopes and plans for the future. But this is by no means the end of your association with the University. Today you are joining the ever-growing global community of University of Sheffield alumni. We hope that you will keep in touch with us, and with each other, in the years to come. Congratulations to you and a warm welcome to your family and friends. We hope everyone here today enjoys this very special occasion. Professor Sir Keith Burnett The Chancellor The Chancellor, Sir Peter Middleton, GCB is the senior lay Officer of the University and is the President of its Court and Convocation. He is the figurehead of the University, advancing its interests wherever he can. Sir Peter Middleton was born and educated in Sheffield. He is a graduate of the University of Sheffield (BA 1955, Economics) and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in 1984. Sir Peter has served as Chancellor of the University since 1999 and is an Honorary Professor in the Management School. Sir Peter spent nearly 30 years as an official in the Treasury, working closely with nine chancellors and was Permanent Secretary from 1983 to 1991. Knighted in 1984, Sir Peter joined Barclays Bank in 1991, serving until 2004 as Deputy Chairman, CEO and Chairman. From 2004 to 2006 he was President of the British Bankers Association. He is currently UK Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies. 2 The University of Sheffield Graduation: Wednesday 23 July 2014 Reasons to be Proud Graduation is a time to recognise and celebrate achievement and success, and every graduate has a story to tell of effort and attainment. You should feel proud you are graduating from a world-leading university that is helping address some of the most urgent challenges facing society today. That’s why some of the world’s most talented, ambitious staff and students come here, finding a place they can challenge accepted wisdom, push boundaries and break the mould. The University of Sheffield Graduation: Wednesday 23 July 2014 3 1 Big Thank You As a place to live and study, we believe • Dr Fay Hield, Department of Music, Sheffield is impossible to beat. wins two prizes at the Radio 2 Folk Awards. And the latest Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey highlights • Our Faculty of Arts and Humanities just how special Sheffield is, voted is one of the top 100 arts and number one in the UK for student humanities faculties in the 2013 QS experience. world university rankings. We believe that’s because we are • University social enterprise group building something very special here Enactus Sheffield are crowned UK in the city we call home - academic National Champions and will compete in excellence and the very best student the Enactus World Cup in Bejing. experience. Honoured Pioneered • Four staff from the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health are on • Professor Nikki Dibben’s the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list. extraordinary collaboration with Björk becomes a major cultural event. • Professor Alan Walker from the Faculty of Social Sciences is awarded a • Politics Professor Matthew Flinders’ CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours new parliament module is formally list. accredited and co-taught by the House of Commons, making it the first of its • Professor Mike Braddick and kind anywhere in the world. Professor Glynis Jones become Fellows of the British Academy. • 900 students work with businesses on ‘Engineering: You’re Hired!’, a • Three academics are honoured by new module for second years. the Academy of Social Sciences. • Dr Bob McKay – School of English – and • Professor Keith Ridgway, founder final-year student Matthew Holman of the Advanced Manufacturing win an HEA award for the new Research Centre, is honoured by the interdisciplinary research module Royal Aeronautical Society. they created. • Terry Croft is recognised as one of the UK’s 100 leading scientists. • Our pioneering AMRC Training Centre, opened its doors to its first 150 • Professors Steven Armes, David apprentices to provide the Beerling and Tom Bridgeland in the next generation of world leading Faculty of Science are elected Fellows engineers. of the Royal Society. Recognised Invested • Stonewall ranks us among the UK’s • The new management school opens top 100 inclusive employers. for business. • We received an Athena Swan Award for • Our new 301 centre opens and recruiting and supporting women in takes a holistic approach to skills science, engineering and technology. development. • We were ranked in the top 100 of • The extended Union of Students World University Rankings 2013. building has more room for fruitful partnerships between the University, • We are one of only 15 universities students and the city. And it’s more chosen by the government to provide energy efficient than ever. courses in quantitative methods for the next generation of social scientists. • Foundations are laid for The Diamond – an £81m building where we will • The #weareinternational campaign wins redefine the study of engineering. the Internationalising the • We invest almost £40m in Student Experience category at the bursaries, scholarships and fee waivers. National Union of Students (NUS) and UK Council for International Student • A donation of $1m by alumni Affairs (UKCISA) Internationalisation Sir Sze-yuen Chung helps to fund the Awards. Pam Liversidge Building. 4 The University of Sheffield Graduation: Wednesday 23 July 2014 Honorary Degrees The University of Sheffield confers honorary degrees (or degrees honoris causa – as a ‘mark of honour’) on people who have given distinguished service or brought distinction to the University, the City of Sheffield or the region. They may be individuals of national or international standing or alumni of the University who have risen to the heights of their chosen profession or field of service. The University tradition of recognising excellence in this way dates back to the first congregation to award Sheffield degrees. This took place on 2 July 1908 in Firth Hall, and the first honorary degree was awarded to the then Chancellor, the Duke of Norfolk. The University is proud to include many notable figures amongst its honorary graduates in the years since and 2014 is no exception. Professor Sir Harry Kroto FRS Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Harry Kroto FRS, the discoverer of a new form of carbon – buckminsterfullerene – and a Chemistry graduate of the University (BSc 1961, PhD 1964), was awarded an honorary degree (DSc) in 1995. The Kroto Research Institute is named in his honour. Sir Harry Kroto Science Photo Library The University of Sheffield Graduation: Wednesday 23 July 2014 5 Lesley Garrett CBE, FRAM The popular soprano, recording artist and television personality, Lesley Garrett, was born in Thorne, near Doncaster. In 2013 she returned to the stage with Opera North, singing the role of Elle in Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine. She is a Fellow and a Courtesy of David Fisher/Rex Features Governor of the Royal Academy of Music, and received an honorary degree (DMus) from the University in 1997. The Most Revd and Rt Hon Dr John Sentamu Lesley Garrett, John Sentamu John Sentamu became the 97th Archbishop of York in 2005. He is patron or president of over 100 organisations, and has a wide range of interests that include criminal and social justice, the family and young people. He is the Chancellor of York St John University. He received an honorary degree (LittD) in 2007. Sir Donald Bailey OBE Sir Donald Bailey OBE, the inventor of the Bailey Bridge, without which “we would not have won the war” (Field Marshall Montgomery), received an honorary degree (DEng, Doctor of Engineering) in 1949. He had completed a BEng in Engineering at the University in 1923. Al Gore Al Gore, the Nobel Laureate and former Vice President of the USA, is a well-known environmental Sir Donald Bailey activist and the founder of the Alliance for Climate Protection.
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