Chairs

ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL. The following titles have been conferred on: Paola Camici, consultant clinical scientist, now professor of cardiovascular pathophysiology; Raj Thakker, Medical Research Council clinical scientist/consultant physician and endocinologist, former reader in medicine, now professor of medicine; A. Peters, reader in nuclear medicine, now professor of diagnostic radiology.

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. Peter Buckley, professor of managerial economics at the University of Bradford's Management Centre, chair of international business.

UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA. J. Tarrant, deputy vice chancellor, was awarded the title of professor in recognition of his leadership role in the university.

Andrew Motion, writer and biographer, chair in creative writing; David Lawton, professor of English and head of department at the University of Tasmania, chair in English literature.