Helena Ann Kennedy,Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws,,is a Scottish barrister,broadcaster,and Labour member of the House of Lords. She was Principal of Mansfield College,Oxford,from 2011 to 2018.
Glasgow Caledonian University,informally GCU,Caledonian or Caley,is a public university in Glasgow,Scotland. It was formed in 1993 by the merger of The Queen's College,Glasgow and Glasgow Polytechnic. It is located in the Cowcaddens district,just to the immediate north of the city centre,and is Glasgow's third university,after the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde.
Sir William Kerr Fraser was a British civil servant,who served as Permanent Secretary at the Scottish Office,and as Principal and later Chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
Sir Kenneth Charles Calman,HonFAcadMEd is a Scottish doctor and academic who formerly worked as a surgeon,oncologist and cancer researcher and held the position of Chief Medical Officer of Scotland,and then England. He was Warden and Vice-Chancellor of Durham University from 1998 to 2006 before becoming Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. He held the position of Chair of the National Cancer Research Institute from 2008 until 2011. From 2008 to 2009,he was convener of the Calman Commission on Scottish devolution.
Sir John Peebles Arbuthnott,PPRSE,FRCPSG,FMedSci,FRCPath was a Scottish microbiologist who was Principal of the University of Strathclyde. He succeeded Lord Wilson of Tillyorn as President of The Royal Society of Edinburgh in October 2011 and was succeeded by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell in October 2014.
Sir James Drummond Bone,FRSE,FRSA,is a Byron scholar and was Master of Balliol College at the University of Oxford until April 2018. He previously served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool from 2002 to 2008,and Principal of Royal Holloway,University of London,from 2000 to 2002.Currently residing in Fife,Scotland.
Margaret Forbes Alexander is a Scottish nurse,educator,researcher and writer. She is emeritus professor at the School of Nursing and Community Health at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).
Professor Dame Joan Kathleen Stringer,DBE,FRSE,FRSA is a British political scientist and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University and Queen Margaret University,Edinburgh.
Nelson Kawulukusi Sewankambo,MBChB,MMed,MSc,FRCP,LLD (Hon),sometimes spelled as Nelson Ssewankambo,is a Ugandan physician,academician,medical researcher,and medical administrator. He is a professor of medicine and former principal of the Makerere University College of Health Sciences,a semi-autonomous constituent college of Makerere University.
Andrea Nolan is Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology and Principal &Vice Chancellor of Edinburgh Napier University. In 1999,she was the first woman ever appointed to head a British veterinary school.
Ailsa McKay was a Scottish economist,government policy adviser,a leading feminist economist and Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University.
Liz Bacon is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Abertay University,Dundee.
Cameron Richard Donaldson is a Scottish economist who is Yunus Chair and distinguished Professor of Health Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University,the University for the Common Good. From 2016 to 2021,he was Pro Vice Chancellor Research,during which time Glasgow Caledonian became the first university to adopt the Sustainable Development Goals as the framework for its Research Strategy. Donaldson is also a Professor of Health Economics at the Australian National University.
George Murray Burnett FRSE FRSA FRIC LLD (1921–1980) was a Scottish mathematician and chemist. He served as both Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University from 1974 until 1980. He is largely remembered for his work on polymer reactions.
Sir Francis Gerard McCormac, FRSE,FSA,FRSA,FHEA is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Stirling. He is a physicist whose specialist fields are Space physics and Carbon Dating. He is a member of the advisory board of the International College for Liberal Arts at Yamanashi Gakuin University in Japan. Previous roles include Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor at Queen's University Belfast and Vice-Chairman of Invest Northern Ireland. He chaired a review of teacher employment for the Scottish Government in 2011.
Rebecca Bunting is the current Vice-Chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire. She took office on an interim basis in January 2020 and was appointed permanently in October 2020.
Alice Brown is a Scottish academic who is Emeritus Professor of Politics at the University of Edinburgh and Chancellor of the University of Abertay as of 2019. She was on the consultative steering group that advised on procedural aspects when the new Scottish Parliament was being set up. Her work included promoting the equal representation of women. She was the first Scottish Public Services Ombudsman,serving for two terms between 2002 and 2009,and was a member of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council 2008–2012. She was a member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life 1998–2003 and was elected as the first female General Secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) 2011–2013. She was chair of the Scottish Funding Council since until her term of office ended on October 2,2017.
James Gita Hakim,was a South Sudanese and Ugandan,internist,clinical epidemiologist,cardiologist,researcher,university faculty and academic mentor. At the time of his death,he was Professor of Medicine and Former Chair of Internal Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences.
Karen Stanton is a British historian,academic and the former Vice Chancellor of both York St John University and Solent University.
Lesley McMillan,FRSE,professor of Criminology and Sociology at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU),associate director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research,and associate director of the Centre for Research in Families and Relationships based at the University of Edinburgh,researches gender-based violence and criminal justice systems. She influenced reforms in police training for best practice when dealing with traumatised rape or sexual violence survivors,and was behind a multimedia campaign "Erase the Grey" which challenges traditional views on gender-based violence.
