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Graduation 2015. Wednesday 14 January 2015 the University of Sheffield Graduation 2015. Wednesday 14 January 2015 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 14 January 2015 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. Sir Peter has recently retired from the position of UK Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies and is currently Chairman of Burford Capital. 2 The University of Sheffield Graduation: Wednesday 14 January 2015 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 14 January 2015 3 1 Big Thank You As a place to live and study, we believe • Our Faculty of Arts and Humanities Sheffield is impossible to beat. is one of the top 100 arts and humanities faculties in the 2013 QS And the latest Times Higher Education world university rankings. Student Experience Survey highlights just how special Sheffield is, voted • University social enterprise group number one in the UK for student Enactus Sheffield are crowned UK experience. National Champions and reached the semi finals of the 2014 Enactus World We believe that’s because we are Cup in Bejing. building something very special here in the city we call home - academic excellence and the very best student Honoured experience. • Writers Dr Joanne Harris and Dame Hilary Mantel honoured for their Pioneered services to literature. • Professor Alan Walker from the • Professor Nikki Dibben’s Faculty of Social Sciences is awarded a extraordinary collaboration with Björk CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours becomes a major cultural event. list. • Politics Professor Matthew Flinders’ • Professor Mike Braddick and new parliament module is formally Professor Glynis Jones become Fellows accredited and co-taught by the House of the British Academy. of Commons, making it the first of its kind anywhere in the world. • Three academics are honoured by the Academy of Social Sciences. • 900 students work with businesses on ‘Engineering: You’re Hired!’, a • Professor Keith Ridgway, founder new module for second years. of the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, is honoured by the • Dr Bob McKay – School of English – and Royal Aeronautical Society. final-year student Matthew Holman win an HEA award for the new • Terry Croft is recognised as one of the interdisciplinary research module UK’s 100 leading scientists. they created. • Professors Steven Armes, David • Our Advanced Manufacturing Research Beerling and Tom Bridgeland in the Centre with Boeing’s award-winning Faculty of Science are elected Fellows training centre secures National College of the Royal Society. status. Invested Recognised • Awarded £7.5 million of Government • Stonewall ranks us among the UK’s funding to expand the development of top 100 inclusive employers. world-leading clinical lung-imaging. • 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. • Awarded almost £4.9 million of Government funding to buy world- • Recognised at the Times Higher class equipment for The Diamond, our Education Awards 2014 for providing new flagship development filled with exceptional support for international exceptional facilities for the engineers students, early career researchers and of the future. students from all backgrounds. • We invest almost £40m in • Dr Fay Hield, Department of Music, bursaries, scholarships and fee waivers. wins two prizes at the Radio 2 Folk Awards. • A donation of US $1 million by alumnus Sir Sze-yuen Chung has helped to fund new initiatives in the Faculty of Engineering. 4 The University of Sheffield Graduation: Wednesday 14 January 2015 Honorary Degrees The University of Sheffield confers honorary degrees (or degreeshonoris 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 2015 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 14 January 2015 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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