Newcastle University is a UK public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is a red brick university and a member of the Russell Group, an association of research-intensive UK universities.
The Human Tissue Authority (HTA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care in the United Kingdom. It regulates the removal, storage, use and disposal of human bodies, organs and tissue for a number of scheduled purposes such as research, transplantation, and education and training.
Ann Katharine Swynford Lambton,, usually known as A.K.S. Lambton or "Nancy" Lambton, was a British historian and expert on medieval and early modern Persian history, Persian language, Islamic political theory, and Persian social organisation. She was an acknowledged authority on land tenure and reform in Iran.
Sir Neil CossonsFMA is a British historian and museum administrator.
Stuart Kinnaird Monro OBE, FRSGS, FRSE is a Scottish geologist and science communicator.
Kantilal Vardichand "Kanti" Mardia is an Indian-British statistician specialising in directional statistics, multivariate analysis, geostatistics, statistical bioinformatics and statistical shape analysis. He was born in Sirohi, Rajasthan, India in a Jain family and now resides and works in Leeds. He is known for his series of tests of multivariate normality based measures of multivariate skewness and kurtosis as well as work on the statistical measures of shape.
Michael Goodfellow OBE is a British professor in microbial systematics, specialising in Actinomycetota taxonomy. He earlier served as head of the School of Biology in University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is also the chair of the Bergey's Manual Trust.
Daniel William Finkelstein, Baron Finkelstein, is a British journalist and politician. He is a former executive editor of The Times and remains a weekly political columnist. He is a former chairman of Policy Exchange who was succeeded by David Frum in 2014. He is chair of the think tank Onward. He was made a member of the House of Lords in August 2013, sitting as a Conservative.
Dame Victoria Geraldine Bruce,, known as Vicki Bruce, is an English psychologist, Professor of Psychology and former Head of the School of Psychology at Newcastle University. She is known for her work on human face perception and person memory, including face recognition and recall by eyewitnesses and gaze. and other aspects of social cognition. She is also interested in visual cognition more generally. She was made a Dame in the 2015 Birthday Honours list.
John Warren Shipley, Baron Shipley, is a British politician who has been a life peer in the House of Lords since 2010. A member of the Liberal Democrats, he previously served as leader of Newcastle City Council between 2006 and 2010.
The Welsh Agricultural College (WAC) was established in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, in 1970. In 1995 it merged with Aberystwyth University.
Peter Hobley Davison OBE was a British professor of English and an authority on the life and works of George Orwell.
Robert Hugh Jackson OBE MC was a British paediatrician most notable for his campaign to introduce childproof packaging to medicine.
William Feaver is a British art critic, curator, artist and lecturer. From 1975–1998 he was the chief art critic of the Observer, and from 1994 a visiting professor at Nottingham Trent University. His book The Pitmen Painters inspired the play of the same name by Lee Hall.
Beryl Scott Nashar was an Australian geologist, academic and first female Dean at an Australian university.
Roy Michael Harrison is a British academic who is the Queen Elizabeth II Birmingham Centenary Professor of Environmental health at the University of Birmingham in the UK and a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Alan Keith Maynard was a British health economist.
Christine Thelma Ennew OBE is the Provost of the University of Warwick.
Professor David Roy Sandbach OBE FRSC is the Immediate Past-President of the Industry and Technology Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)... In addition, he sits on the board of the National Centre for Universities and Business (NCUB). He chairs Northern Accelerator, the research commercialisation programme for the North East England universities, Newcastle University, Durham University, Northumbria University Sunderland University, and Teesside University. He sits on the board of the Technology Services Association (TSA), the trade association for technology-enabled care. He is vice-Chair of the Sunderland Ageing Well Board.
Matthew James Keeling is a professor in the Mathematics Institute and the School of Life Sciences of the University of Warwick. He has been editor of the journal Epidemics since 2007.
