The University of Wales is a confederal university based in Cardiff,Wales. Founded by royal charter in 1893 as a federal university with three constituent colleges –Aberystwyth,Bangor and Cardiff –the university was the first university established in Wales,one of the four countries in the United Kingdom. The university was,prior to the break up of the federation,the second largest university in the UK.
Cardiff University is a public research university in Cardiff,Wales. It was established in 1883 as the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire and became a founding college of the University of Wales in 1893. It was renamed University College,Cardiff in 1972 and merged with the University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology in 1988 to become University of Wales College,Cardiff and then University of Wales,Cardiff in 1996. In 1997 it received degree-awarding powers,but held them in abeyance. It adopted the operating name of Cardiff University in 1999;this became its legal name in 2005,when it became an independent university awarding its own degrees.
Sir David GrantFLSW is a British academic who was the vice-chancellor of Cardiff University in Wales from 2001 to 2012. Following his appointment,Grant oversaw the merger between Cardiff University and the University of Wales College of Medicine,which was completed in 2004,and the award of university status to Cardiff.
Sir Emyr Jones Parry FLSW is a British retired diplomat. He is a former Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations and former UK Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council.
Sir Leszek Krzysztof Borysiewicz is a British professor,immunologist and scientific administrator. He served as the 345th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge,his term of office started on 1 October 2010 and ended on 1 October 2017. Borysiewicz also served as chief executive of the Medical Research Council of the UK from 2007-2010 and was the chairman of Cancer Research UK from 2016 to 2023.
Geraint Talfan Davies OBE DL FRIBA FLSW is a Welsh journalist and broadcaster,and a long-serving trustee and chairman of many Welsh civic,arts,media and cultural organisations.
T. Gerald Hunter FLSW,more commonly known as Jerry Hunter,is an American graduate of the University of Cincinnati (BA),Aberystwyth (MPhil) and Harvard University (PhD). Originally from Cincinnati,he now lives in Wales and has held academic posts at Cardiff and more recently Bangor University,where he is currently (2015) a professor in the School of Welsh and deputy vice chancellor of the university He was a founding member of the pressure group Cymuned and is former editor of the Academi's literary periodical Taliesin.
Colin H. Williams FLSW is a senior research associate at the VHI,l St Edmund's College,the University of Cambridge,UK. He was formerly a research professor in sociolinguistics,and later an honorary professor in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University.
John G. Hughes FCBS FLSW is a former president of the National University of Ireland,Maynooth and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Ireland who served from 2004 to 2010 and Vice-Chancellor at Bangor University,Wales,from 2010 to 2018.
Peredur Ionor Lynch,FLSW is a Welsh academic who serves as professor of Welsh &Medieval Literature in the School of Welsh and Celtic Studies at Bangor University.
Bangor University is a public research university in Bangor,Gwynedd,Wales. It received its Royal Charter in 1885 and was one of the founding institutions of the federal University of Wales.
Keith G. Harding CBE FRCGP FRCP FRCS FLSW is a British physician.
Meena Upadhyaya is an Indian-born Welsh medical geneticist and a Professor emerita at Cardiff University. Her research has focused on the genes that cause various genetic disorders,in particular neurofibromatosis type I and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
Dame Karen Margaret Holford is a Welsh-domiciled engineer,professor of mechanical engineering and vice-chancellor and chief executive of Cranfield University. She was formerly deputy vice-chancellor at Cardiff University. She is also a former pro vice-chancellor of the College of Physical Sciences and Engineering and head of the School of Engineering. She is an active researcher of acoustic emission and her work has been applied to damage assessment inspections on industrial components.
Gruffydd Aled Williams FLSW is a scholar who specialises in Welsh medieval poetry and Renaissance literature. He was brought up in Dinmael,Denbighshire,and Glyndyfrdwy in the former county of Merioneth. Educated at Glyndyfrdwy Primary School,Llangollen Grammar School and the University College of North Wales,Bangor,he graduated in Welsh in 1964. From 1965 to 1970 he was Assistant Lecturer in Welsh at University College,Dublin,and from 1970 he was Lecturer,Senior Lecturer (1984) and Reader (1991) in the Department of Welsh at the University of Wales,Bangor. In 1995 he was appointed Professor of Welsh and Head of the Department of Welsh at the University of Wales,Aberystwyth,a post he held until his retirement in 2008. He is now an emeritus Professor of the university.
David Tegfan Davies was a Welsh Congregational minister. He was raised by his grandparents,Dafydd and Hannah Dafis of Abergwili,Carmarthenshire. On completing his education at the local school,he entered employment as a farm labourer at a farm in Rhyd-y-Rhaw,Peniel. Whilst there he began to attend services at Peniel Congregational Church,and it was there,in 1903,that he began to preach. Following a period studying at the Old College School in Carmarthen,he moved,in 1905,to attend classes at Bala-Bangor College. He was ordained minister in September 1908 at Seion,Pontypridd,and from there moved to Addoldy,Glynneath,where he was inducted in January 1911.
Haley Gomez MBE,FRAS,FLSW is a Welsh Professor of Astrophysics at Cardiff University. She studies the formation and evolution of cosmic dust using the Herschel Space Observatory. She is Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy. She was awarded an Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honour’s.
Anita Thapar is a Welsh child psychiatrist who is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Institute of Psychological Medicine and Clinical Neuroscience at Cardiff University. Her research focuses on risk factors for ADHD and major depression in children. She was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in 1995,and of the Academy of Medical Sciences and Learned Society of Wales in 2011. In 2017,she received the Frances Hoggan Medal from the Learned Society of Wales and was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE),both in recognition of her research in child and adolescent psychiatry.
Roger Alexander Falconer FREng,ForMemCAE,FLSW,FEurASc,is Emeritus Professor of Water and Environmental Engineering at Cardiff University,Independent Water Engineering and Environmental Management Consultant,Tidal Energy Consultant,and Chair Professor at Hohai University and the Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development,China. He is an active researcher in modelling water and environmental processes in river,estuarine and coastal basins.
Hywel Rhys Thomas is a British scientist researching in the area of civil engineering,who is known for his work on the behaviour of unsaturated soils. He is Professor of Civil Engineering and founder director of the Geoenvironmental Research Centre at Cardiff University,and served as a pro-vice chancellor of that university (2010–18). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012 and has been president of the Learned Society of Wales since 2020.
