Graduation ceremonies 20 and 21 January 2017 The honorary Graduands The Honorary Graduands Every year the University of Sally Wainwright York confers the honorary Sally Wainwright is a BAFTA-winning screenwriter, executive producer and director, best known for creating degree of Doctor of the the BBC’s Happy Valley and Last Tango in Halifax and ITV’s University honoris causa Scott and Bailey. on distinguished people. Born in Huddersfield in 1963, Sally Wainwright grew up in The recipients come from Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, before studying English at the University of York. After graduation she took a play many walks of life and all she wrote as a student to the Edinburgh Festival, where have made a significant she acquired an agent. BAFTA/Richard Kendal BAFTA/Richard contribution to society. After writing for the BBC Radio 4 series The Archers, Sally Wainwright became a scriptwriter for Coronation Street from 1994 to 1999, before Honorary graduands are creating the TV series At Home with the Braithwaites in 2000. Awarded the Royal selected from nominations Television Society’s Writer of the Year in 2009 for the drama Unforgiven, in 2011 she wrote Scott and Bailey, followed by Last Tango in Halifax, which won the BAFTA by members of the University for best series and best writer in 2012. and very often have links with The BBC crime drama Happy Valley, starring Sarah Lancashire and written, departments or alumni. created and directed by Sally Wainwright, aired in 2014, winning BAFTAs for best writer and best drama. Sally Wainwright lives in Oxfordshire with her husband and two sons. Dr Alison Birkinshaw OBE Dr Alison Birkinshaw is Chief Executive and Principal of York College. She is also a former Chair of the Higher York Board and current Chair of Learning City York. Dr Birkinshaw grew up in Bakewell and studied Music and English at the University of Hull before pursuing a PhD in 20th-century music. Achieving a PGCE from Durham University, she joined Nelson and Colne College in 1984 as a Lecturer in Music and then became Head of Creative Arts before moving to Runshaw College, Leyland, as Assistant and then Deputy Principal. After Dr Birkinshaw returned to Nelson and Colne College as Principal in 2004, the College was judged ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted in 2005 and awarded Beacon College status in 2006. On becoming Principal of York College in 2008, Dr Birkinshaw led the College to its 2013 ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted grade. Having chaired the national Further Education Reputation Steering Group from 2007, she regularly contributes to FE strategy at a national level. Awarded an OBE for services to education in 2012, Dr Birkinshaw is a past member of the Association of Colleges’ Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Committee and the York Economic Partnership and currently serves on other key local and regional strategic groups. Graduation ceremonies 20 and 21 January 2017 The honorary Graduands Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta Professor Dame Anne Glover FRS, FRSE Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta is Professor Dame Anne Glover is an economist working in the field Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology of malnutrition, population and at the University of Aberdeen where she environmental resources. focuses on improving understanding He was born in India, and studied maths of how diseases, such as Alzheimer’s at the University of Cambridge before and Parkinson’s, affect the body at a obtaining a PhD there in 1968. Sir Partha molecular level. is currently the Frank Ramsey Professor Professor Glover was the Chief Scientific Emeritus of Economics at the University Adviser for Scotland from 2006 to 2011, of Cambridge; a Fellow of St John’s before being appointed the first Chief College, Cambridge; and Visiting Professor at New College of the Scientific Adviser to the European Commission, where she Humanities, London. provided expert advice on science, technology and innovation to He taught at the London School of Economics (1971 to 1985) policymakers and the Commission President. before becoming Professor of Economics at Cambridge, where During her time at the Commission, Professor Glover raised the he served as Chairman of the Faculty of Economics from 1997 to profile of science advisers among EU government bodies, which 2001 and co-founded the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk. was particularly demonstrated in her openness in the debate Sir Partha, who was knighted in 2002, has been honoured around concerning genetically modified crops. the world and is a Fellow of the British Academy; a Fellow of Professor Glover was honoured with a damehood in the the Royal Society; a Fellow of the World Academy of Sciences; Queen’s Birthday Honours list for 2015. She is currently the and a Foreign Member of the US National Academy of Science. Vice-Principal for External Affairs and Dean for Europe at the University of Aberdeen. Professor Dame Hazel Genn DBE, QC Professor Dame Hazel Genn is a Dr Francis Pryor MBE leading authority on civil justice whose Dr Francis Pryor is a distinguished work has had a major influence on archaeologist, known to millions from policymakers around the world. She is his television appearances and a series currently Dean of the Faculty of Laws of successful books. and Director of the Centre for Access to After reading archaeology and Justice at University College London. anthropology at Trinity College, Dame Hazel’s work has focused on University of Cambridge, he began the experiences of ordinary people a series of major excavations (1971 caught up in legal problems and the to 1978) at Fengate, on the outskirts responsiveness of the justice system to the needs of citizens. She of Peterborough, which revealed an has conducted empirical studies on public access to the justice extensive Bronze Age field system, as well as Neolithic and Iron system and has published widely in her specialist fields. Age settlements. Dame Hazel has been appointed to many public service roles in In 1982 he discovered the timbers of a Late Bronze Age timber the justice system. In 2006 she became Inaugural Commissioner to causeway and religious complex at Flag Fen. Today, it has become the England and Wales Judicial Appointments Commission, which one of the best known Bronze Age sites in Europe. He was appoints members of the judiciary at all levels, including to the awarded an MBE for services to tourism in 1999. Court of Appeal and the UK Supreme Court. Dr Pryor has written numerous books. His most recent work She has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2000 and is Home: A Time Traveller’s Tales from Britain’s Prehistory which in 2008 she delivered the Hamlyn Lectures on the subject of charts the changing role of households and communities in civil justice. She was awarded a CBE in 2000. In 2006 she was shaping the destiny of people and their landscapes. A former appointed DBE for services to civil justice and she was also president of the Council for British Archaeology, he was also a appointed Queen’s Counsel honoris causa. In 2008 she was elected regular presence on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. Honorary Master of the Bench of Gray’s Inn. Graduation ceremonies 20 and 21 January 2017 The honorary Graduands Annamarie Phelps CBE Annamarie Phelps is a rower and champion of Paralympic sport who represented Great Britain at the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games and in the World Rowing Championships from 1991 to 1995, winning the World Championship gold medal in 1993. As a prominent figure in the world of rowing, she has played an important role in the direction of Paralympic sport, as Chairman of British Rowing and Vice-Chair of the British Paralympic Association. Annamarie Phelps is dedicated to promoting inclusivity and diversity in sport and providing better access to those coming to rowing for the first time. She also works with the international body, Fédération Internationale des Sociétés d’Aviron, and the Commonwealth Games Federation to strengthen the sport globally. She was the first female board member of the Boat Race Company Ltd, working with university sponsors and men’s clubs to bring the Women’s University Boat Race to the Tideway on the River Thames in 2015. Annamarie Phelps was awarded a CBE in the New Year’s Honours lists for 2016 in recognition of her services to rowing..