University College London,which operates as UCL,is a public research university in London,England. It is a member institution of the federal University of London,and is the second-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment and the largest by postgraduate enrolment.
Birkbeck,University of London,is a research university,located in Bloomsbury,London,England,and a member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute by its founder,Sir George Birkbeck,and its supporters,Jeremy Bentham,J. C. Hobhouse and Henry Brougham,Birkbeck is one of the few universities to specialise in evening higher education in the United Kingdom.
Francis Leo Lawrence was an American educator and scholar specializing in French literature and university administrator. A graduate of Saint Louis University and Tulane University,Lawrence taught at Tulane for over 30 years and held posts as academic vice president,provost,and dean of the graduate school before being appointed as the 18th president of Rutgers University (1990–2002).
Sir Michael James Paul Arthur FMedSci is a British academic who was the tenth provost and president of University College London between 2013 and January 2021. Arthur had previously been chairman of the Russell Group of UK universities and the vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds between September 2004 and 2013.
Sir Michael John Howard Sterling is a British professor,and a former Vice-Chancellor of the Brunel University and the University of Birmingham.
The Marshall Chair of French Language and Literature is one of two established chairs in French at the University of Glasgow,the other being the Stevenson Chair which is not currently occupied. It was established in 1917 as the Marshall Chair of Modern Romance Language from a lectureship instituted in 1895,and had its title changed in 1966.
The Ordre des Palmes académiques is a national order bestowed by the French Republic on distinguished academics and teachers and for valuable service to universities,education and science. Originally established in 1808 by Emperor Napoleon as a decoration to honour eminent members of the University of Paris,it was changed into its current form as an order of merit on 4 October 1955 by President RenéCoty,making it one of the oldest civil honours bestowed by the French Republic.
Sir David Stephen Eastwood,,is a British academic and long serving university leader who was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Birmingham between 13 April 2009 and December 2021.
University College London (UCL) was founded on 11 February 1826,under the name London University,as a secular alternative to the strictly religious universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was founded with the intention from the beginning of it being a university,not a college or institute. However its founders encountered strong opposition from the Church of England,the existing universities and the medical schools which prevented them from securing the Royal Charter under the title of "university" that would grant "London University" official recognition and allow it to award degrees. It was not until 1836,when the latter-day University of London was established,that it was legally recognised and granted the authority to submit students for the degree examinations of the University of London.
Sir Malcolm John Grant,,FAcSS is a barrister,academic lawyer,and former law professor. Born and educated in New Zealand,he was the ninth President and Provost of University College London –the head as well as principal academic and administrative officer of the university –for over a decade from 2003 until 2013. He then served for 7 years as chairman of NHS England. He has published extensively in planning and environmental law,and local government law,including serving for 23 years (1981–2004) as the editor of the 8 loose leaf volume Encyclopaedia of Planning Law and Practice of which he remains a consultant editor.
LLAS was a staff development centre based at the University of Southampton which provided services to academic staff across the UK teaching Languages,Linguistics and Area Studies in higher education. Its first incarnation was as a subject centre of the Learning and Teaching Support Network (2000-2004),then a subject centre of the Higher Education Academy (2004-2011). Its second incarnation was as an enterprise unit of the University of Southampton.
Emma Wilson,is a British academic and writer,specialising in French literature and cinema. She is Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Corpus Christi College.
Geoffrey David Price has been Vice-Provost (Research) of UCL since 2007 and Professor of Mineral Physics in the UCL Department of Earth Sciences since 1991. Price has been responsible for promoting,supporting and facilitating UCL research,including securing the highest-quality research outputs across UCL,and leading the development and implementation of the UCL Research Strategy.
Colin Bryan Riordan FLSW is a British academic who has been President and Vice-Chancellor at Cardiff University since 1 September 2012.
Alan William Raitt,was a British scholar of French literature,specialising in nineteenth-century French literature. From 1992 to 1997,he was Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford.
Wallace Kirsop is an eminent Australian scholar in French studies and in book trade history.
Ann Margaret Jefferson,is a British scholar of French literature. She was a fellow and tutor in French at New College,Oxford,from 1987 to 2015,and professor of French at the University of Oxford from 2006 to 2015.
Bencie Woll FAAAS is an American–British linguist and scholar of sign language. She became the first professor of sign language in the United Kingdom when she was appointed Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies at City University,London in 1995. In 2005,she moved to University College London where she became Professor of Sign Language and Deaf Studies and Director of the Deafness,Cognition and Language Research Centre (DCAL).
The President's Medal is awarded annually by the British Academy to up to five individuals or organisations. It is awarded for "outstanding service to the cause of the humanities and social sciences". It cannot be awarded to Fellows of the British Academy and was created to reward "academic-related activity rather than academic achievement alone". The medals were first awarded in 2010.
Russell Mardon Viner,FMedSci is an Australian-British paediatrician and policy researcher who is Chief Scientific Advisor at the Department for Education and Professor of Adolescent Health at the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health. He is an expert on child and adolescent health in the UK and internationally. He was a member of the UK Government's Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) during the COVID-19 pandemic and was President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health from 2018 to 2021. He remains clinically active,seeing young people with diabetes each week at UCL Hospitals. Viner is Vice-Chair of the NHS England Transformation Board for Children and Young People and Chair of the Stakeholder Council for the Board. He is a non-executive director (NED) at Great Ormond St. Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust,also sitting on the Trust's Finance &Investment and the Quality and Safety sub-committees.
