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The Open University Degree Ceremonies 2014
Usher Hall,
Edinburgh
Saturday 21 June
11:00
Programme:
(00:04)
Welcome Speech
(05:17) Honorary graduate speech
(13:50)
Presentation of higher degrees
(22:10) Honorary graduate speech
(32:48) Presentation of undergraduates
(01:02:14)
Closing Speech
Honorary graduates:
Professor Sir
John Arbuthnott
(
Academic and scholarly distinction)
Sir John Arbuthnott followed an academic career in infectious disease research for over 40 years. He held posts in
Glasgow,
New York,
Dublin and
Nottingham before becoming
Principal at the
University of Strathclyde from
1991 to
2000. He is a co-founder of the
Africa Oxford Cancer Foundation (AfrOx) and a trustee of the
Lloyds TSB Foundation for
Scotland. From
2002 to
2007 he was
Chair of
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, where he was a co-founder of the Glasgow
Centre for
Population Health. He was awarded Glasgow's St
Mungo Prize in 2009. Sir
John has authored three major reports:
Fair Shares for All, which created a new allocation formula for
Scottish health services; Putting
Citizens First, which dealt with boundaries, voting systems and representation in Scotland; and the
Clyde Valley Review, which proposed new approaches to joint working in local authorities. He is currently
President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Dr
James Robertson
(
Exceptional contribution to
Education and
Culture)
James Robertson is a writer of fiction, a poet and an editor. His novels include
Joseph Knight (awarded both the
Saltire Society and
Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year prizes in
2003/04),
The Testament of Gideon Mack,
And the Land Lay Still (
Saltire Book of the Year in
2010) and
The Professor of
Truth. He was a co-founder and is general editor of Itchy Coo, the
Scots language imprint which since 2002 has published more than forty books in
Scots for young readers, including his own translations of works by
Roald Dahl,
A.A. Milne and
Julia Donaldson. He also established and runs a poetry-publishing imprint, Kettillonia. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Honorary
Research Fellow in the
Department of
Scottish Literature,
University of Glasgow, and has served on numerous committees and working groups supporting and promoting
Scottish literature and language, especially in education.
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