The Queen's University of Belfast,commonly known as Queen's University Belfast,is a public research university in Belfast,Northern Ireland,United Kingdom. The university received its charter in 1845 as "Queen's College,Belfast",and opened four years later.
The University of Jos,abbreviated as Unijos,is a federal university in Jos,Plateau State,central Nigeria.
Igbinedion University,Okada (IUO) is a privately owned university located in Okada,the headquarters of Ovia North-East Local Government Area in Edo State,Nigeria.
Bedford High School is a coeducational secondary school in the Bedford area of Leigh,Greater Manchester,England.
Sir Allen McClay CBE was a Northern Irish multi-millionaire businessman and philanthropist who founded Galen,a pharmaceutical company which was Northern Ireland's first one billion pound business. After resigning from Galen in 2001,he went on to form a second successful pharmaceutical company,the Almac Group.
Gombe State University (GSU) is located in Tudun Wada,an area in Shamaki Ward,Gombe,Gombe State,Nigeria. It is located in the Northern part of Nigeria. It is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. The state university has a Chancellor and 11-members of the governing council,as well as principal officers and management staff. Abdullahi Mahadi was the first vice chancellor of the university.
James Alexander McWha is a botanist whose professional career was devoted to teaching,research and educational administration in New Zealand,Northern Ireland and Australia. He retired as Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Adelaide on 30 June 2012. In October 2013 he was appointed as Vice Chancellor of the newly created University of Rwanda. He retired from the University of Rwanda in October 2015.
The Literary and Scientific Society of the Queen's University of Belfast is the university's debating society. The purposes of the Society,as per its Laws are to "encourage debating,oratory and rhetoric throughout the student body of the University and beyond".
Patrick G. Johnston was a Northern Irish physician and a leading expert in cancer research. He was a professor of oncology at Queen's University Belfast,where he served as vice-chancellor and president from 1 March 2014,until his death.
Professor Sir Ian Andrew Greer is a Scottish medical doctor who is the 13th President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast and formerly Vice-President of the University of Manchester and Dean of the Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences. He was Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow 2001−2007,Dean at Hull York Medical School 2007–2010,then Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool 2010−2015.
Roger G. H. Downer was an Irish educator,scientist,and writer who held a number of non-executive positions on private and public sector boards. He was a president emeritus at the University of Limerick and a distinguished professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo.
Sally Wheeler,is Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck,University of London and was previously Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the Australian National University,where she was also served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the College of Law (2018-2022). She is also a Visiting Full Professor at the UCD Sutherland School of law and adjunct professor at Waikato University,New Zealand,and Jilin University,China. Wheeler was elected to the Academy of Social Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy in 2011 and 2013,respectively. She was previously a professor at Queen's University Belfast and was the Head of the School of Law at Queen's University Belfast for several years,she also served as Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS),Dean of Internationalisation (AHSS) and,in 2017,Interim Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research Enterprise. Wheeler is the author or co-author of several books on corporate governance,over 70 articles or book chapters,and she has edited or co-edited nine other books. Wheeler has given major addresses and led workshops around the world,and has also been cited as "one of the world's leading experts" on the governance of pensions. In August 2023 her appointment as the incoming Vice-Chancellor of Birkbeck,University of London,was announced.
Yvonne Galligan OBE is an Irish political scientist and consultant who is currently teaching at Queen's University Belfast in Northern Ireland. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Trinity College Dublin.
Ryan Francis Donnelly has been a Chair of Pharmaceutical Technology at Queen's University Belfast since 2013. His research focused on the design and physicochemical characterisation of advanced polymeric drug delivery systems for transdermal and topical applications.
Eileen M. A. Harkin-Jones is the Bombardier Aerospace-Royal Academy of Engineering professor of composites engineering at the Ulster University.
Noemi Lois is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Queen's University Belfast and an Honorary Consultant Ophthalmologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust.
Máire O'Neill is an Irish Professor of Information Security and inventor based at the Centre for Secure Information Technologies Queen's University Belfast. She was named the 2007 British Female Inventors &Innovators Network Female Inventor of the Year. She was the youngest person to be made a professor of engineering at Queen's University Belfast and youngest person to be inducted into the Irish Academy of Engineering.
Adrian Ernest Long was a civil engineer from Northern Ireland. A professor at Queen's University Belfast,he had a particular interest in concrete structures and patented FlexiArch,a pre-cast concrete arch product. He served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers for 2002–03,the first Northern Irish engineer to do so.
Robert Gray Robin Shanks CBE is a retired British clinical pharmacologist,specialising in Beta adrenergic blocking drugs. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1997 New Year Honours,For Services to Medicine.
