On the move

Sir Alec Broers , vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, has been named president of the Royal Academy of Engineering .

Caroline Chambers has been appointed graduate pathway coordinator at the University of Bradford .

Mary Cowie , a former environmental adviser at Michelin Tyres, has been made a lecturer in the urban water technology centre at the University of Abertay Dundee .

David Docherty , former deputy director of television at the BBC, has joined Luton University 's board of governors.

Sarah Farley has been appointed principal and chief executive of Darlington College of Technology . She was formerly executive director.

Tony Hey , dean of engineering at the University of Southampton, has been appointed director for the e-science core programme at the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council .

David Melville , former head of the Further Education Funding Council, has been appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Kent .

Stuart Palmer , pro vice-chancellor of the University of Warwick, has been appointed chair of the Standing Conference of Physics Professors .

Genevra Richardson , professor of public law at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, has been appointed lay member of the Medical Research Council .

Maggie Semple , former director of education at the Millennium Dome, has been made a governor of De Montfort University .

Bill Spoor has been appointed dean of the Scottish Agricultural College 's Edinburgh campus.

David Wallace , vice-chancellor of Loughborough University, has been made chairman of the e-science steering committee at the Office of Science and Technology .

David Williams , professor of chemistry at the University of Cardiff, has been appointed to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions ' advisory committee on hazardous substances.

John Young has been appointed head of Darlington College at Catterick .

Nottingham Trent University has appointed Adrian Hopwood , formerly of the Open University, as head of the department of computing; and Adrian McMullan , formerly head of fleet management at the Metropolitan Police Service, as principal lecturer at the centre for automotive industries management at Nottingham Business School.