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cover:review2012 24/05/2013 15:04 Page 1 The Royal Society of Edinburgh The Royal Society ofEdinburgh Review 2013 Review 2013 Printed in Great Britain by Henry Ling Limited, Dorchester, DT1 1HD ISSN 1476-4342 THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH REVIEW OF THE SESSION 2011-2012 PUBLISHED BY THE RSE SCOTLAND FOUNDATION ISSN 1476-4342 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ Telephone : 0131 240 5000 Fax : 0131 240 5024 email : [email protected] Scottish Charity No SC000470 Printed in Great Britain by Henry Ling Limited, Dorchester, DT1 1HD THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH REVIEW OF THE SESSION 2011-2012 PUBLISHED BY THE RSE SCOTLAND FOUNDATION ISSN 1476-4342 The Royal Society of Edinburgh 22-26 George Street Edinburgh, EH2 2PQ Telephone : 0131 240 5000 Fax : 0131 240 5024 email : [email protected] Scottish Charity No SC000470 Printed in Great Britain by Henry Ling Limited, Dorchester, DT1 1HD CONTENTS ACTIVITIES – SESSION 2011-2012 Proceedings of the Ordinary Meetings .............................. 3 Proceedings of the Statutory General Meeting ................. 5 Prize Lectures .................................................................. 41 Lectures ........................................................................... 51 Conferences, Workshops, Symposia, Seminars and Discussion Forums ......................................................... 133 Publications ................................................................... 151 Policy Advice .................................................................. 153 Events for Young People ............................................... 157 Research and Enterprise Awards ................................... 159 Medals, Prizes and Prize Lectureships ............................. 165 Grants Committee ........................................................ 167 International Programme .............................................. 169 Fellows’ Social Events .................................................... 175 Grants, Sponsorship and Donations .............................. 177 Schedule of Investments................................................ 179 Friends of the Society .................................................... 183 Changes in Fellowship during the Session ..................... 185 Staff .............................................................................. 187 OBITUARY NOTICES ............................................................ 189 TRUSTEES’ REPORT AND ACCOUNTS TO 31 MARCH 2012 ..341 Trustees Report ............................................................. 341 Auditors’ Report ........................................................... 361 Accounts ....................................................................... 363 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ORDINARY MEETINGS Thursday, 1 December 2011 Lecture Chairman Terry Hill CBE, Chairman, Arup Sir John Arbuthnott MRIA PRSE Group Trusts. Infrastructure Costs Too Much, And It Needn’t Formal Admission to Fellowship Professor James Ironside CBE, Monday, 11 June 2012 Professor of Clinical Neuropathol- Chairman ogy at the University of Edinburgh Sir John Arbuthnott MRIA PRSE and Director of the MRC Network Lecture of UK Brain Banks Professor David Cameron FRSE, Ballot Clinical Director, Director of Sir David Carter and Professor Cancer Services, NHS Lothian; Hector McQueen will act as Professor of Oncology, University Scrutineers for the ballot to elect of Edinburgh; Associate Director, New Fellows in 2012, the out- NIHR Cancer Research Network. come of which will be revealed at Conducting Clinical Cancer the Ordinary meeting in March Research in the NHS Benefits 2012 Everyone? Lecture Ballot Professor Yasir Suleiman CBE FRSE Dr Alison Elliot and Professor His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Gavin Gibson were announced as Said Professor of Modern Arabic Scrutineers for the ballot for the Studies and Director of Alwaleed election of new RSE Council and Centre of Islamic Studies at the Office-Bearers. The outcome will University of Cambridge. The Arab be announced at the Annual Spring: Tropes and Discourses Statutory Meeting on 1 October Wednesday, 7 March 2012 2012. Chairman Laws Change Sir John Arbuthnott MRIA PRSE The proposed Laws changes to create a Vice-President (Interna- Ballot tional) were announced, to be Sir David Carter and Professor voted upon at the ASM. Hector MacQueen acted as Scrutineers for the postal ballot Monday 3 September 2012 for the election of new RSE The September Ordinary Meeting Fellows for 2012. They reported took place as part of the Research that 48% of the Fellowship had Awards Reception. There was no returned papers for the ballot, formal business. and that the names on the list had been elected by an ‘overwhelm- ing majority’. 3 PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATUTORY GENERAL MEETING Minutes of the Statutory General Meeting held on 1 October 2012, ending the 229th Session The Annual Statutory Meeting took place in the Society’s Wolfson Theatre on Monday 1 October 2012 at 6 pm. Sir John Arbuthnott MRIA, President, took the Chair. Sir John explained that prior to the formal business of the ASM, Professor Mary McAleese would be admitted as an Honorary Fellow of the Society, and that a presentation would be made to Professor Peter Higgs FRS FRSE. A. GENERAL BUSINESS 1. Admission of Professor Mary McAleese to Honorary Fellowship 2. Presentation to Professor Peter Higgs FRS FRSE B. FORMAL BUSINESS – RSE FELLOWS ONLY IN ATTENDANCE 1. Minute of the ASM held on Monday, 3 October 2011 2. Matters Arising 3. Report on Activities during Session 2011/12 4. Office Bearers’ Reports – for approval a) General Secretary’s Report b) Treasurer’s Report c) Fellowship Secretary’s Report 5. Strategic Framework – for discussion 6. Laws Changes – for approval 7. Election of Council and other Office-Bearers for Session 2012/13 8. Alternative Voting System for Election of Fellows and Council 9. Any Other Business 5 Review of the Session 2011-2012 A. GENERAL BUSINESS 1. ADMISSION OF PROFESSOR MARY MCALEESE TO HONORARY FELLOWSHIP The President invited Sir David Edward KCMG QC PC FRSE, International Convener, to read the citation for Professor Mary McAleese: President - It is my very great privilege to present Professor Mary McAleese for admission to Fellowship of The Royal Society of Edin- burgh. “She is known to us here primarily as a lady who served with immense distinction as President of Ireland for 14 years from 1997 to 2011 and who dazzled us all by her gracious welcome to the Queen on her historic visit to Ireland last year. That was only one outstanding event in a truly remarkable career devoted to peace and reconciliation amongst the people of Ireland, north and south, of all faiths and none. “Mary McAleese was born and brought up in the Ardoyne district of Belfast. She and her family experienced at first hand the many ways in which sectarian enmity impinged upon the everyday life of peaceful and peace-loving people. She graduated in law at Queen’s University Belfast and was, in 1974, one of the very few women to be called to the Bar of Northern Ireland. Very soon after, she was called to Trinity College, Dublin, as Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology. With a break of two years as a journalist and presenter with RTE, she held that Chair for 12 years. “She then moved back to Belfast as Director of the Institute of Profes- sional Legal Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. There I witnessed at first hand the directness and warmth of her relationship with her students, and I saw it again this morning when she spent almost one- and-a-half hours in a Question & Answer session with students and staff at Old College. “As well as Director of the Institute, she served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University for three years until 1997, when she was elected President of Ireland – the first person from the Province of Ulster to be elected to that office. “Her election to the Presidency did not put an end to her academic career. Whilst President, she completed a Master’s course in Canon Law, and earlier this year she completed her Licentiate at the Gregorian University in Rome. She returns there tomorrow to study for a further two years to complete her Doctorate on the canon laws relating to children. 6 Proceedings of the Annual Statutory Meeting “Meanwhile, today sees the publication of her new book Quo Vadis?: Collegiality in the Code of Canon Law – a study of the problems of governance in the Roman Catholic Church. She confidently expects, and indeed (I suspect) hopes, that this will cause anxious flutterings in the doocots of the Roman Curia. “Mary McAleese is an LL.D. of many Universities, including the Universi- ty of Edinburgh. It is not generally known, even amongst those who hold that degree, that its abbreviation is “double-L D” because it means Doctor of Both Laws – civil law and canon law. So today we welcome amongst us a scholar who will soon have earned that distinction in its fullest sense. “President, before inviting you to admit Professor McAleese to Fellow- ship, I must add a few words about other, and equally important, aspects of her work. “In Dublin she was a member of the Council of Social Welfare, the Executive Committee of Focus Point for Homeless Young People, and the Campaign for Homosexual Law Reform; and in Belfast, she was a founder member of Belfast Women’s Aid and Honorary President of the Northern Ireland Housing Rights Association. “One of her earlier books was entitled Love in Chaos: Spiritual Growth and the Search for Peace