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University of Manchester. Catherine Davies, senior lecturer at Queen Mary and Westfield College, chair of Spanish; Dean Paxon, visiting senior fellow in Manchester Business School, chair of finance (part-time); Mark Pollicott, reader in mathematics at University of Warwick, Fielden professor of pure mathematics; David Challis, professor of social work and social care at the University of Kent at Canterbury, professor of psychiatric social work and community care;

Mahmoud Ezzamel, Price Waterhouse professor of accounting and finance at University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, professor of accounting and finance; Ronald Doney, reader in mathematical statistics, professor of probability theory; John Wearden, reader in psychology, promotional chair of psychology; Alan Jackson, senior lecturer in diagnostic radiology, professor of neuroradiology; Grevel Lindop, reader in English literature, professor of romantic and early Victorian studies;

David Denison, senior lecturer in the department of English language and literature, professor of English linguistics; Donald Scragg, reader in English language, professor of Anglo-Saxon studies; Alan Cruttenden, reader in phonetics, professor in phonetics in the department of linguistics; Nigel Coleman, honorary visiting professor of microbiology.

ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON

David Holden, senior lecturer in the department of infectious diseases and bacteriology, has been appointed professor of molecular microbiology. Dorian Haskard, professor of rheumatology, has been appointed to the Sir John McMichael chair of cardiovascular medicine. Alexander McNeish, director of the Medical Research Council's Clinical Sciences Centre, has been awarded the personal chair of professor of clinical science from November 1 1995.