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THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

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“ We are proud to say that we are an international university and indeed we have been since our very early days.”Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice Chancellor, the University of Edinburgh

The Lanterns of the Terracotta Warriors exhibition in Old College Quad.

Our visionTo recruit and develop the world’s most promising students and most outstanding staff and be a truly global university benefiting society as a whole.

Our missionThe mission of our University is the creation, dissemination and curation of knowledge. As a world-leading centre of academic excellence we aim to:

• enhance our position as one of the world’s leading research and teaching universities and to measure our performance against the highest international standards

• provide the highest quality learning and teaching environment for the greater wellbeing of our students and deliver an outstanding educational portfolio

• produce graduates fully equipped to achieve the highest personal and professional standards

• make a significant, sustainable and socially responsible contribution to Scotland, the UK and the world, promoting health, economic growth and cultural wellbeing.

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Contents03 Principal’s foreword

04 Bringing cultural insights to the city

07 Strengthening links with the world’s biggest democracy

08 Collaborating for world-first discoveries

11 Uniting to fight disease in Africa

12 Investing in healthy futures

15 Language learning for long-term health benefits

16 Gathering to celebrate difference

19 Visualising a cure for cancer

20 The 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day

22 Review of the year

26 Financial review

28 Honorary graduations and other distinctions

30 Awards and achievements

32 Appointments

34 AppendicesAppendix 1 Undergraduate applications

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Appendix 3 Benefactions

Appendix 4 Research grants and other sources of funding

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Principal’s forewordThe breadth of our international partnerships has a really positive impact on the overall student experience at Edinburgh.

Every year our Annual Review provides a welcome opportunity for me as the Principal and Vice Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh to reflect on our achievements of the previous 12 months. It is a chance to pause and take stock of what we as a community have been doing and to think about where we are heading – and once again those reflections give cause for great optimism.

Any organisation is only as good as the quality of its people, and in our staff and student body we are fortunate in this regard. It is thanks to them – as well as our friends and supporters – that we are able to maintain our reputation as one of the world’s leading universities, whether that is in terms of our research and innovation activity or the quality of the learning environment and the teaching that we offer.

One clear demonstration of this is the University’s performance in the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework (REF). Edinburgh has been rated fourth in the UK for the quality and breadth of our research and is by far the most successful university in Scotland. This is an exceptionally strong performance across the whole of our research activity and is a tribute to the entire University community.

We are proud to say that we are an international university and indeed we have been since our very early days. The breadth of our international partnerships has a really positive impact on the overall student experience at Edinburgh. That is not only manifested in the cultural diversity of campus life but also in the unique and collaborative opportunities we can offer our students with our many and varied partners overseas – these can come in the form of shared degrees, study abroad programmes, or exchanges. We continue to grow the number of offices that we have in different global regions and have recently opened one in New York. The networks that these hubs make available enrich the quality of a student’s time spent studying with us.

In this edition of the Annual Review, we focus on our international links and the benefits that they bring to the student community. We have a significant number of Chinese students who have chosen to study at Edinburgh and we celebrated Chinese New Year with

a unique Chinese art installation in Old College quadrangle, which features in more detail in this year’s edition, and indeed on the front cover. We also focus the spotlight on our links with India with a look at the launch of our highly successful Edinburgh India Institute and our efforts to strengthen ties with the world’s biggest democracy.

As a leading research institution we contribute in a very practical way to helping solve some of the big global problems. Our cutting-edge research is helping to change the quality of life for people in parts of Africa where we are a key partner in the fight against diseases such as anthrax and rabies. Elsewhere in the Review we look at the role our researchers are playing in developing drug therapies against cancer. Similarly, working with partners in India, we are investigating bilingualism and the extent to which having more than one language can keep our brains healthier for longer.

One of our most fascinating breakthroughs, which seemed to whet the appetite of news media around the world, was based around the ever-popular subject of dinosaurs – and it would not have been possible had it not been for the international links between our own researchers and scientists in China. Working alongside Chinese colleagues we were able to identify a new dinosaur – dubbed Pinocchio Rex – based on bones discovered in Asia.

As well as our cutting-edge research we continuously strive to innovate in the field of teaching and in this edition of the Review we look at the hi-tech virtual cadaver that we have commissioned – one of the first of its kind in the UK – which is transforming the learning experience for our students of anatomy.

As I pointed out at the beginning of this foreword, it is sometimes important to pause and reflect on our achievements – but also to celebrate them. We recently did just this in the form of the Gather Festival, during which we celebrated the diversity of our international community and the fact that 40 per cent of our students are from countries outside the United Kingdom. In this publication we take an in-depth look at that celebration and the sense of joy and vibrancy it created.

Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea BSc, PhD, FRSE

Finally, it has given me particular personal pleasure for the University to reach an important milestone in our efforts to extend the exchange of knowledge beyond our own student body and into the wider world. We recently became the first British university to offer MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses. These free courses across a range of disciplines are open to anyone, anywhere in the world who has access to the internet. Our one-millionth student has now signed up for a MOOC programme. These courses are a wonderful way of sharing our expertise with a global audience and ensure that anyone with an interest in what we have to offer can now share in the Edinburgh experience.

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A young visitor enjoys the Lanterns of the Terracotta Warriors exhibition.

Bringing cultural insights to the city

More than 2,000 years ago, in what is now Shaanxi province, the first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang, was buried alongside 8,000 life-size warriors made from terracotta. These fearsome effigies had a defensive purpose: to repel evil spirits and protect the emperor in the afterlife. A few millennia later, in January 2014, dozens of similar figures appeared in the University’s Old College quadrangle, with quite the opposite intent.

The modern, multicoloured artworks came from China to attract rather than repel. Over the course of 10 days, more than 30,000 people swapped South Bridge’s midwinter bustle for the bright lights and magical atmosphere of the Lanterns of Terracotta Warriors exhibition. It was the most popular event ever held in the quad.

Created by Chinese artist Xia Nan, the figures were commissioned for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Their installation in Edinburgh to mark Chinese New Year was their first appearance in Scotland.

All art is symbolic, and the warrior lanterns are no exception. Not only do they cast light back and illuminate their ancient origins, but their magpie effect on contemporary Scotland shows how the University’s cultural links with China are not purely academic. They are for all to enjoy and benefit from.

“There were huge numbers of visitors in the evenings especially,” says Professor Mary Bownes, Vice-Principal Community Engagement. “One of the nicest things was that it was mainly family groups that visited. They were amazed they were able to come in, get on the grass and walk between the figures.

“We wanted to show the quadrangle to good effect, share it with the public, get people to come in and have closer links with the University. The University is very much part of the city. That’s our history and heritage. And we need to be much better at sharing what we have with the city.

“We also wanted to bring the city and China closer together. The University is home to more than 1,600 Chinese students. We wanted to make that connection. The terracotta warriors seemed the perfect vehicle to do all that.”

Just like the building of Qin Shi Huang’s tomb two millennia ago, the exhibition involved many partners. Among them was the Confucius Institute for Scotland in the University of Edinburgh. Opened in 2007, it was the first of its kind in Scotland. Hanban, the Chinese cultural agency that oversees more than 400 Confucius Institutes globally, has since recognised it – five times – as the best in the world.

The terracotta warriors were not the Institute’s only Chinese cultural connection to be showcased in Edinburgh this year. To mark the 10th anniversary of the first Confucius Institute, the city centre was transformed into a ’mini Beijing’ for a day, when more than 1,000 members of the public had a Chinese lesson. More than 5,000 people visited throughout the day. Adults drank cups of Chinese tea, while children received temporary tattoos.

In June, the University and the Confucius Institute struck another first with the launch of an exhibition, Poster Art of Modern China, which featured 130 propaganda posters from a period of tumult and revolution of the last century. This was the first time these images had ever been seen outside China.

The posters came from the Propaganda Poster Art Center in Shanghai. Many were hidden underground to survive a government cull in the 1980s. The exhibition, held in the University’s Adam House on Chambers Street, was a huge success. More than 5,000 people came to see what was in effect a pictorial history of modern China, told through the era’s cheapest and most ubiquitous art form.

For exhibition curator Professor Natascha Gentz, Director of the Confucius Institute for Scotland, and the University’s Dean International (China), it served two purposes.

“You could come and see the posters for their beauty, but you could also learn a lot about Chinese history” she says. “I wanted to show the continuity from the republican period before the People’s Republic of China, through the 1950s and 1960s until today.

“When we think about propaganda posters we have a very clear image of the Cultural Revolution posters, which are stereotyped and very violent. But there is a broad range of posters, which is why we also wrote a historical guide to accompany the exhibition.”

If all art is symbolic, it can also be challenging. One of Professor Gentz’s aims in putting on these public cultural events is to question people’s assumptions about China.

“We want people to get a sense of what’s going on in China,” she explains. “If you study China you can see the challenges it faces. I would like people to be more knowledgeable about China and take an internal perspective, and to engage with it. That’s what we’re trying to do with these events.”

Professor James Smith, the University’s Vice-Principal International, believes that the Confucius Institute’s cultural work allows a mutually enriching dialogue between China and all of Edinburgh.

“These events give us the opportunity to understand a complex and diverse country such as China,” he says. “The terracotta warriors worked really well. The winter greyness of the quadrangle, combined with the bright colours of the lanterns, metaphorically, says something very strong about internationalisation. In the University we think about internationalisation as a global activity, but it’s very important to bring that back to the city.”

One of the nicest things was that it was mainly family groups that visited. They were amazed they were able to come in, get on the grass and walk between the figures. Professor Mary Bownes Vice-Principal Community Development

Useful linkswww.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/warrior-lanterns-100114www.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/poster-art-china-060614www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk

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As part of their trip to Delhi, Edinburgh students were made to feel extremely

welcome by their University of Delhi hosts.

Useful linkswww.ed.ac.uk/india-institutewww.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/film-170414

Watch a video about the importance of Edinburgh’s work in partnership with India: http://youtu.be/ZU6gkoq5OCY

The University’s Edinburgh India Institute is working with India to ensure a prosperous society by utilising technology and also a good society by work in the humanities.Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Former President of India

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The University’s work with partners across India is expanding, and 2014 saw the official launch of the Edinburgh India Institute.

The University has engaged with India for more than 200 years. Its early Principal, William Robertson, wrote the first modern-style history of India in 1791, and the first Indian student graduated from Edinburgh in 1876.

The past five years have seen rapid change in India, as its economy expands and demand for high-quality university education increases. In the same period, the number of Indian students coming to Edinburgh has doubled.

The Edinburgh India Institute provides a focus within the University for the work being done across our Schools and Colleges, and with both our International Office in Edinburgh and India Liaison Office in Mumbai. Its creation will ensure a strategic approach is taken to this hugely important region, with the aim of encouraging student recruitment, student and faculty exchanges, and joint research programmes.

Professor Roger Jeffery, founding Director of the Edinburgh India Institute, believes that work being done across the University will allow Edinburgh to position itself as the UK university of first choice for Indian students and institutions.

“Our job is to support and encourage those activities, and to showcase the contribution that Edinburgh can make, both in Scotland and in India,” Professor Jeffery explains.

The Institute’s first conference, held in Edinburgh in May 2014, was one outcome of this initiative. Led by Dr George Palattiyil, Deputy Director of the Institute, and Dr Dina Sidhva, Honorary Fellow, the conference was attended by partners from both the UK and India, who discussed a wide range of topics, from how to assist farmers in India to raising the standard of rural health care.

“The partnerships are creating some exciting opportunities,” says Dr Palattiyil.

“The University is doing some fantastic work in India, right across disciplines and with some top-quality institutes and universities,” he explains. “This was demonstrated by the array of subjects discussed at our first conference. It provided a great opportunity to reinforce our commitment to engaging with educational partners across India.”

Guest of honour at the conference was Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the former President of India. His keynote speech centred on the need to ensure that talent from all strata of Indian society is utilised. Dr Kalam commended the work being carried out by the University: “The University’s Edinburgh India Institute is working with India to ensure a prosperous society by utilising technology and also a good society by work in the humanities.”

The Edinburgh conference also offered opportunities for many research partners to renew acquaintances. A large group had met earlier in the year, in Bangalore, at an animal health conference organised by Professor Natalie Waran, Director of the University’s Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education.

The five-day Bangalore conference discussed research collaborations between the University’s Roslin Institute and the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, and several partners in India. The concept of ‘one health’ featured prominently – the idea that human and animal health is closely related, and that by addressing the needs of one species, others can benefit.

Professor Waran explains: “We have been working with the Indian veterinary profession to support an evidence-based approach to animal medicine that will incorporate critical thinking and ethical analysis to underpin a thorough understanding of techniques for tackling infectious disease control, improved breeding of livestock for productivity, and animal welfare science.”

The past year has seen several other events taking place both in Scotland and India.

The University’s close ties with the University of Delhi were marked when its Vice-Chancellor, Professor Dinesh Singh, received an Honorary Doctorate from Edinburgh in July 2014.

July 2014 also saw the India Women’s Hockey squad training at the University’s Peffermill sports complex, home to Scotland’s National Hockey Academy, ahead of their involvement at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The University of Dehli’s men’s hockey team also visited, playing a series of matches against University teams.

Early in the academic year 2014/15, a group of Edinburgh students with disabilities met the Indian President, Pranab Mukherjee, during a reciprocal, cultural exchange visit as part of an innovative collaboration between Edinburgh and the University of Delhi.

The Edinburgh India Institute, along with the University’s Centre for South Asian Studies, its International Office and the South Asian Students’ Association staged a series of events to mark the University’s first India and South Asia Week. Alongside music and poetry events was a talk by Lord Meghnad Desai.

The birthday of Mahatma Gandhi on 2 October was selected to mark the first India Day at the University. Gandhi’s grandson, Dr Gopalkrishna Gandhi, delivered an inspiring inaugural speech to a packed McEwan Hall.

Professor Jeffery comments: “We will be working hard to ensure that the next 12 months – and beyond – maintain this momentum for the University and its many relationships with India.”


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Dr Steve Brusatte, centre, with some of his third-year palaeontology students.

Collaborating for world-first discoveries

Edinburgh scientists were at the forefront of a high-profile discovery in 2014 – the identification of a new dinosaur species, which was dubbed ‘Pinocchio rex’. The exciting find, based on fossilised bones discovered in Asia, was made possible by the international links between University researchers and scientists in China.

The new type of long-snouted tyrannosaur was identified from the near-perfect fossil of an animal that lived during the late Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago. The remains of the creature – whose official name is Qianzhousaurus sinensis – were examined and categorised by palaeontologist Dr Steve Brusatte, a Chancellor’s Fellow in the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences, and his Chinese collaborators, Professor Junchang Lü of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and experts from museums in Ganzhou and Nanchang.

Palaeontologists are excited by what the discovery might lead to – their find confirms that long-snouted tyrannosaurids were widely distributed in Asia, so there may be more fossils awaiting discovery.

The team created a new branch of the tyrannosaur family tree for specimens with very long snouts. They hope that more dinosaur species can be added as excavations in Asia continue.

Dr Brusatte was thrilled to be involved in the discovery: “My work on Pinocchio rex began when I met a Chinese colleague at a conference. He knew of my interest in tyrannosaurs, and asked if I’d like to take a trip to China to see this new specimen.”

Dr Brusatte’s links with top palaeontology museums and a network of scientists in the field also led to another recent project – a fresh look at how dinosaurs became extinct.

Dr Brusatte teamed up with an international group of academics to look at the most up-to-date evidence on the aftermath of a massive asteroid strike on Earth 66 million years ago. The group pooled their expertise, re-examining the latest fossil records, and making use of improved analytical tools to construct a detailed account of how dinosaurs died out.

The team’s approach was maverick, according to Dr Brusatte.

“This project was a little bit unusual,” he says. “Some experts in the field hadn’t warmed to the idea that a sudden asteroid impact was really what killed off the dinosaurs. A group of younger people and their supervisors – a European and North American group – got together to undertake a review of the most up-to-date evidence.”

Their startling conclusion was that the prehistoric creatures had been hugely unlucky in the timing of the impact. As the 10 kilometre-wide asteroid struck what is now Mexico, Earth was experiencing environmental upheaval, with extensive volcanic activity, changing sea levels, and temperature swings.

Additionally, the dinosaurs’ food chain was weakened by a lack of diversity among the large, plant-eating dinosaurs, on which others preyed. These factors combined to ensure the species was unlikely to survive in the turbulent environmental aftermath of the asteroid strike.

The study attracted worldwide attention. Amid the extensive media interest, Dr Brusatte was able to realise a long-held dream: “I was interviewed about my work on CBS News – the news channel I watched growing up in the US.”

As well as pushing the boundaries of scientific knowledge, Dr Brusatte is helping to nurture the next generation of palaeontologists. Among his teaching duties, he helps to facilitate an annual geology field trip in the Scottish Highlands. The week-long excursion gives Chinese students newly arrived in Scotland an introduction to studying here, helps them integrate, and teaches basic fieldwork techniques.

“Chinese students do well. They’re very smart and enthusiastic and it’s interesting to see them develop and integrate,” says Dr Brusatte. “Clearly the city of Edinburgh is part of the appeal in choosing to study here.”

Some Chinese students come to Edinburgh via the 2+2 undergraduate programme, run in collaboration with several Chinese universities. Students spend two years at a Chinese university then two years at Edinburgh to earn their honours degree. Some then choose to continue their studies here with a masters’ programme.

Dr Brusatte also supervises three PhD students, one of whom is Italian. “The School of GeoSciences has a flourishing international cohort. The department is very attractive to international students,” he explains.

He also teaches a first-year course called ‘Evolution of the Living Earth’, which examines the history of life on Earth, to about 100 students with a mix of nationalities – from the UK, Europe, and the US.

For Dr Brusatte, its important to make connections with students as early as possible in their academic careers. He knows the benefits this can bring: “I had a great undergraduate supervisor from whom I learned an enormous amount, particularly from our class research trip to Tibet. It was from there I started my collaborations with Chinese scientists and I’ve been building my network of collaborators ever since.

“I came to the UK on a Marshall Scholarship, and since then I’ve travelled as much as I can, visiting museums and meeting other researchers,” he says. “I’ve recently visited Russia for the first time, and I’m about to go to New Zealand to see a tyrannosaurus exhibition that I contributed to.”

Edinburgh’s global outlook brings benefits for students and staff alike. As Dr Brusatte points out: “Even within the University, there is an incredible wealth of expertise from around the world. All science these days depends on international collaboration – science doesn’t operate within borders, and neither should scientists.”

I had a great undergraduate supervisor from whom I learned an enormous amount, particularly from our class research trip to Tibet. It was from there I started my collaborations with Chinese scientists and I’ve been building my network of collaborators ever since. Dr Steve Brusatte, Chancellor’s Fellow, School of GeoSciences

Useful linkswww.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/long-nosed-dino-070514www.ed.ac.uk/geosciences

Watch a video of Dr Brusatte talking about his work:www.nutshell-videos.ed.ac.uk/stephen-brusatte-dinosaur-evolution/

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Dr Anna Okello (front, far left) with fellow Edinburgh alumni Dr Ayodele Majekodunmi, Dr Nicola Wardrop, and behind,

from left, Farmer, Dr Albert Mugenyi and Dr Vincenzo Lorusso.

Uniting to fight disease in Africa

The University has been leading a unique collaboration to tackle deadly infections that impact on the health of millions of humans and animals each year, and in February 2014 this work was recognised by the government of Uganda.

Staff and students have been working as part of a project called ICONZ - a consortium of 21 international partners who are combatting a range of neglected zoonotic diseases that can be transferred from animals to humans.

ICONZ (Integrated Control of Neglected Zoonoses) is concerned with eight diseases in particular: anthrax, bovine tuberculosis, brucellosis, cysticercosis, echinococcosis, leishmaniasis, rabies and human African trypanosomiasis, which together represent a huge threat to the health and wellbeing of people and animals across Africa. At the heart of the ICONZ project is a belief in the ‘one health’ concept and approach: the idea that human and animal health is closely related and that by addressing the needs of one species, other species will benefit.

Having established four Global Academies, the University is ideally positioned to lead the ICONZ project. The Global Academies - of Health, Development, Justice, and Environment and Society - seek to overcome traditional academic boundaries by bringing together researchers from a variety of disciplines. They provide learning and research opportunities, with online learning forming a key component of the ambition to share knowledge on a global scale.

Professor Sue Welburn, the University’s Vice Principal Global Access, who leads the ICONZ project, and was the founding Director of the Global Health Academy, explains: “What’s significant about ICONZ is its truly interdisciplinary nature. Participants include professionals across different disciplines – vets, medical doctors, scientists, epidemiologists and social scientists, to name but a few. These people are working together to bring neglected but deadly infections under control.”

Professor Welburn, alongside other Edinburgh researchers, is working to deliver interventions that are culturally appropriate, economically viable, and ready for adoption into the policy frameworks of affected countries.

Dr Christine Amongi from Uganda, who gained her PhD at Edinburgh and is now a postdoctoral fellow working to eradicate sleeping sickness in her home country, is in no doubt as to the damage caused by zoonotic diseases: “Sleeping sickness is a huge, huge burden on the population of my country. I have seen people who have fallen victim and they do not know they have the disease. When they go to the health centre, they are treated for malaria, as the two have similar symptoms.”

The work carried out by Edinburgh staff, in collaboration with the University of Makerere, Kampala University, and the Coordinating Office for the Control of Trypanosomiasis in Uganda (COCTU) was recognised by the Ugandan government for its ‘outstanding contribution to sleeping sickness control‘ and received a Collaboration and Networking Across Government Award.

Professor James Smith, the University’s Vice-Principal International, believes advances made in sleeping sickness research could also be applied to other deadly infections: “Information gathered from ICONZ on the transference of infection between animals and humans will be useful in tackling Ebola. Lessons learned in regards to sleeping sickness – early detection, breaking the zoonotic link and having a health system capable of handling these outbreaks – could prove crucial.”

Dr Anna Okello joined ICONZ as a University of Edinburgh PhD student in 2009, becoming Case Study Project Manager in 2010. Since completing her PhD, she has remained a member of the ICONZ Secretariat and is also managing a large zoonoses project in Laos.

Dr Okello agrees that significant progress has been made.

“I feel we have achieved a tremendous amount, particularly given the highly ambitious nature of the project to start with,” she says. “Aside from the scientific knowledge gained, by mapping the prevalence of zoonoses and their impact in Africa, ICONZ has also enabled capacity building by training dozens of young researchers in both Europe and Africa. We’ve raised the political profile of the work, and argued for greater effort towards the development of innovative ways to address zoonotic diseases in developing countries.”

Other work by Edinburgh researchers is having a significant impact in improving people’s health. One example is a project headed by Dr Francisca Mutapi from the School of Biological Sciences. Her work investigating treatments for schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, has contributed to recommendations from the World Health Organization on how to treat the disease among children, and has been expanded into a nationwide control programme in Zimbabwe.

Edinburgh is also helping to pioneer new financial models to tackle zoonotic diseases. In a UK first, the University is working as part of a unique partnership with Social Finance Ltd to investigate how private investment could help provide the money to tackle sleeping sickness in Uganda.

Dr Liz Grant, the University’s Assistant Principal for Global Health, says Edinburgh’s involvement with ICONZ and other projects has come at a crucial time: “Our researchers have played a key leadership role shaping the way forward for neglected zoonoses at a time when we’re trying to decide what will follow on from the Millennium Development Goals. A large part of that has been to say, ‘yes, there’s been big investment in HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, all of which has been very important, but what comes next?’ The legacy of ICONZ will flag these neglected zoonotic diseases as a key focal point from 2015 onwards.”

Aside from the scientific knowledge gained, by mapping the prevalence of zoonoses and their impact in Africa, ICONZ has also enabled capacity building by training dozens of young researchers in both Europe and Africa. Dr Anna Okello, Case Study Project Manager

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Professor Gordon Findlater (front, right) with medical students in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre examining the virtual cadaver.

Useful linkswww.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/anatomy-120914www.ed.ac.uk/biomedical-sciences

Watch a video of Professor Gordon Findlater, demonstrating the use of the anatomage table:http://youtu.be/55gueEKbkz4

This is 21st-century teaching in a 19th-century setting. Students look down from steeply banked rows of seats on to this giant iPad in the same way as their Victorian predecessors would view a real body. Professor Gordon Findlater, School of Biomedical Studies

Investing in healthy futures

Leading-edge technology is adding a new dimension to the student experience in one of the University’s most historic buildings.

A virtual cadaver is transforming teaching in the 130-year-old Anatomy Lecture Theatre in the Old Medical School at Teviot Place. The device, one of the first of its kind in the UK, allows medical and anatomy students to investigate the human body by virtually dissecting it. The new teaching tool, which shows life-size male and female bodies, has been created from CT scans that allow the body to be seen from front to back, side to side, and upside down. Personalised CT and MRI scans can also be imported to the device and used in a teaching package designed for a specific purpose.

Commissioned by the University’s School of Biomedical Sciences, the Anatomy Table complements another novel teaching tool introduced this year at Edinburgh – an animated 3D hologram of the human body. The full-colour hologram – the first of its kind in the world – is a life-size device that lets students probe muscle, bone, internal organs, blood vessels, and nerves from different angles. Edinburgh anatomists produced the device in collaboration with Scottish company Holoxica, one of the world’s leading producers of 3D displays.

The hologram gives a depth that a real cadaver cannot recreate. Ms Justine Aka, a former MSc student in human anatomy, now teaching at Edinburgh, thinks the hologram provides a unique perspective.

“It helped me understand how muscles, organs, the skeleton, nerves and vessels relate to each other by looking at it from different angles,” she explains.

“Looking at the arteries and veins, it is truly amazing to see the whole cardiovascular system in one life-size image – the hologram greatly aids understanding of the human anatomy, as well as being fun to look at!”

For Gordon Findlater, Professor of Translational Anatomy at Edinburgh, the hologram and virtual cadaver are the most exciting teaching developments since he started lecturing 30 years ago.

“This is 21st-century teaching in a 19th-century setting,” says Professor Findlater. “Students look down from steeply banked rows of seats on to this giant iPad in the same way as their Victorian predecessors would view a real body.

“We use it in the same way as an ordinary cadaver, introducing students to anatomy without any of the health and safety issues associated with real bodies,” he explains.

Students are not the only beneficiaries – visitors to the University’s world-renowned Anatomical Museum and groups of local school pupils have also gained hands-on experience by using the cadaver.

The device proved popular at an open day hosted by the University’s widening participation initiative Pathways to the Professions, which supports local, state school students seeking to apply for medicine, law, veterinary medicine or architecture.

One such young visitor, Douglas Henderson from Dunbar, was an enthusiastic participant: “I’ve been round the medical museum at Teviot Place a few times before, but being able to use the virtual cadaver really added something to my visit. I’d give it 10 out of 10.”

Anna Brown, of Firrhill High School in Edinburgh, found it easy to familiarise herself with the positioning of organs, nerves, and blood vessels. She says: “It was really easy to see where everything was as the computer made it a lot clearer. You were given a 3D view that you could rotate, cut and manipulate in any way you wanted.”

For Natalia Rocha of Drummond Community High School in Edinburgh, the cadaver proved a useful learning tool: “This type of technology has had a greater impact on my memory than a textbook. I can still remember vividly what I saw. It’s very easy to understand human anatomy when you have the possibility to see a whole system captured in a single picture.”

For Professor Findlater the technology is an aid to learning.

“Technology provides knowledge,” he states, “but understanding comes from handling a real body – becoming familiar with the textures, structures and spaces between body parts.

“No two bodies are exactly the same – we teach our students to expect the unexpected. In a computer-generated image, you see exactly the same image every time. Real cadavers will always be the cornerstones of anatomy teaching, but we no longer have to spend hours huddled round a body dissecting it. There are other ways of gaining knowledge.”

Such has been the success of these technological innovations that Professor Findlater is helping to develop a 3D atlas that brings the human body to life at the touch of a fingertip. Plans are afoot to incorporate moving images of blood flowing through chambers of the heart, lungs expanding, and joints moving. He is also working with digital agency Luma to produce a cross-platform, augmented reality app, which provides a virtual tour of the body. The technology will be trialled in a new online course starting next year, where it is envisaged that, for example, images of the heart in Edinburgh could be accessed in 3D by a distance-learning student in Africa, who is able to rotate the image 360 degrees on screen.

Professor Findlater concludes: “Students these days are on tablets practically from the day they are born. We have got to meet them where they are. For so long, anatomy has been focused on using dead bodies. We don’t want to sit back and do things the way we’ve always done them. My philosophy has always been to make anatomy more accessible. We have to be imaginative in our approach.”


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Dr Thomas Bak during his research trip to India, where he and his colleagues were welcomed by local schoolchildren attending

Pathabhavan, the school section of Viswabharati University.

Language learning for long-term health benefits

What keeps our brains healthy in older age is complex and mysterious but innovative research into bilingualism at Edinburgh is providing vital clues.

In the past year, two studies that suggested bilingualism boosts thinking skills in later life, not only provided insights into the ageing brain, but also the cognitive functions that facilitate language learning. The first study showed that being bilingual may delay the onset of dementia; the second suggests that those who speak an additional language are more likely to stay sharp in old age.

The findings by researchers at the Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE) are the latest Edinburgh milestones to highlight the benefits of learning languages – not just in later life, but at any age. For lead researcher, Dr Thomas Bak – a neurologist and a psychiatrist who is fluent in four languages – it is invigorating work, of increasing relevance as more of us live longer.

Working with researchers in India on the first study, Dr Bak looked at more than 600 dementia patients in the city of Hyderabad and assessed when each one had been diagnosed with the condition. He found that people who spoke two or more languages experienced a later onset of Alzheimer’s and two other types of dementia. Symptoms started on average four and a half years later than those in monolingual patients.

It is the largest study to gauge the impact of bilingualism on the onset of dementia, independent of a person’s education, gender, occupation and location – all of which had been considered as influencing factors. Dr Bak says further studies are needed, however, to determine the mechanism that causes the delay.

“The most popular theory about this protective effect of language is that bilingualism is a kind of permanent experience of switching between languages and suppressing the one you’re not using,” he explains.

“If switching languages is the reason, it could explain why we saw no additional benefits of speaking more than two languages. This switching offers practically constant brain training.”

Dr Bak also wanted to know if people who learn languages later in life reap the same benefits as those who grow up bilingual. Help was close at hand. He approached CCACE Director, Professor Ian Deary, who established the Disconnected Mind Project 10 years ago, to find out why some people’s brains age better than others.

Together they scanned the results of standardised intelligence tests, taken by a group of Scottish people who sat a cognitive-ability test at age 11, and compared them with results of tests taken when group members were aged 73. Those taking part were from the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936, a group of individuals from the Edinburgh area who were born in 1936 and took part in the Scottish Mental Survey of 1947.

Results showed that participants who had learned a second language performed better in cognitive tests at 73 than would be predicted from their childhood scores. The strongest effects were on general intelligence and reading – even if the second language had been acquired in adulthood.

“Having more than one language was thought to give a little protection against dementia,” Professor Deary explains. “We thought it might also help healthy cognitive ageing. We were able to rule out that the effect of learning a language was not just attributable to the fact that multiple language speakers were those who were brighter to start with.”

For Professor Deary, the conclusion provides another piece in a complex jigsaw: “What we’re finding out is that the secrets of healthy cognitive ageing are many, and most are small. It’s about getting a lot of little things right.”

The two colleagues have now begun exploring whether having more than one language is associated with brain structure in older age.

For Dr Bak, there are further questions to be addressed at the opposite end of the age spectrum. He has begun collaborating with Edinburgh’s acclaimed Bilingualism Matters initiative, set up as a research-based information service focused on early bilingualism.

Bilingualism Matters is now a significant centre for public engagement in the University’s School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences. Led by Professor Antonella Sorace, who specialises in language learning at different ages, the centre disseminates information about multilingualism based on the very latest linguistic and cognitive research, and works with families, teachers, health professionals, policy makers and businesses. Its work is not constrained to the UK, with partner institutions around the world now learning from the centre.

The project also directly supports people living in Scotland who want to develop their linguistic skills – a well-timed objective as the Scottish Government is determined to encourage greater linguistic attainment in society through its 1+ 2 approach to language learning in schools.

Professor Sorace explains: “With Government committed to introducing a first additional language in the first year of primary school, this is a very exciting time for all those involved in promoting language learning and the benefits it brings.

“Edinburgh is one of the best places in the world to carry out research in bilingualism. It provides a unique environment in which to study bilingualism across the age spectrum. The synergy that this full lifespan approach creates is what makes our work at Edinburgh so stimulating.”

With Government committed to introducing a first additional language in the first year of primary school, this is a very exciting time for all those involved in promoting language learning and the benefits it brings. Professor Antonella Sorace, Bilingualism Matters Director

Useful linkswww.ccace.ed.ac.ukwww.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk

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A popular Gather event: the Estonian Funky Feet performance and workshop held in the McEwan Hall.

Gather demonstrated a genuine will to create a meaningful, inclusive, cultural festival that draws on the vast potential in our own student body, by empowering them through each other’s culture. Mari Woien, Fourth-year undergraduate

Useful linkswww.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/gatherfest-280214

Gathering to celebrate difference

In March 2014, Edinburgh, the world’s foremost festival city, welcomed a new cultural event on to its calendar.

Organised by Edinburgh students to celebrate the diverse blend of cultures on campus, the first Gather Festival was held across nine days. The city experienced everything from a mass Tai Chi session in Bristo Square, fuelled by cups of chai tea, to Estonian folk music wafting from the McEwan Hall. In total, the inaugural Gather Festival organised 52 events, attended by more than 2,500 people: staff, students and members of the public.

The festival was designed to reflect change. The University is increasingly international and diverse, and of its 30,000 students, 40 per cent are from countries outside the United Kingdom. The festival reconsidered and celebrated what internationalisation now looks like.

Gather not only marked the global diversity and experience on campus, but also the growing collaboration and innovation around it. It looked both beyond Scotland’s borders and celebrated what lies within them. It asked not only, ‘what can be done over there?’ but ‘what can be done here?’.

As the festival’s events organiser Johanna Holtan explains, Gather built a diverse community out of a common theme.

“What do we all have in common?” she asks. “We’re all from different parts of the world. We’re all arriving, moving, and leaving. What we have in common is the idea that Edinburgh is home. We’re all here. Gather came from that.”

Ms Holtan and her colleagues in the Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) worked closely with the University’s International Office to grow this germ of an idea into a fully fledged festival. They held workshops with staff and students to determine what people might expect and core ambitions emerged: bringing people together; building community; thinking big and outside the box; cultivating connections; offering a space to share stories; understanding and celebrating culture. The Gather Festival’s first programme had its building blocks.

Then came the tea. Organisers decided that the common cuppa was the perfect symbol of people coming together; the so-called elixir of community.

Art student Maria Stoian was hired to design the visuals for the festival. Gather’s logo became a hanging tea bag, and the theme continued with sporting events such as the CammoMILE Run, the Tea Cup football tournament, and the Tai Chi Chai Tea event, which brought together colleagues from the University’s Confucius Institute and India Institute.

Also on the programme was the ACT! Festival for Social Change which took place in the city centre venue Assembly Roxy, and saw postgraduate students present their work on international issues. An art workshop resulted in creative ways to depict international citizens’ stories of coming to Edinburgh.

Mari Woien, a fourth-year undergraduate student and one of the festival’s team leaders, believes the first programme met its ambitions. She says: “Gather demonstrated a genuine will to create a meaningful, inclusive, cultural festival that draws on the vast potential in our own student body, by empowering them through each other’s culture.”

Nearly 30 events on the programme were organised by members of staff or community groups. The International Office, for example, held a potluck dinner, with members of staff bringing dishes that reflected their cultural background.

“Gather is also about getting the wider community onto campus,” says Lorna Bruce, one of the key figures from the International Office involved in the festival’s organisation. “Gather is for people who are interested in what’s happening, so anyone could get involved.”

But it was the students who were at the centre of the festival, and will continue to be as it grows. For Briana Pegado, EUSA President, bringing people together from different backgrounds to share ideas and cultures is one of the most empowering aspects of student life in Edinburgh. Ms Pegado, who is from the US, believes Gather is a new tool to facilitate and celebrate that.

“Gather is a powerful way for students to come together and talk about social change through dance and art or by simply sharing a meal,” she explains.

“This might sound corny,” she continues, “but to have a better understanding of each other and the world, and to come to solutions when dealing with complex international situations, it is really important for people from different backgrounds to come together.

“You get a different perspective and you learn more about yourself. It makes things more exciting, fun, diverse and interesting. It’s certainly what attracted me to this university. That’s precisely the experience I wanted.”

For Ms Holtan, the festival acted as an agent for internationalisation’s natural effect. It challenges people to move beyond what is familiar and comfortable.

“It puts you in situations that you find almost a wee bit uncomfortable, but in a safe way,” she says. “You do well and then you ask, what’s next? I hope that’s what Gather, EUSA and the University do.”

With financial support confirmed, the Gather Festival will return in March 2015 when more events at Roslin, King’s Buildings and Edinburgh College of Art are planned in addition to the Central Area. Nearly 100 student volunteers have already signed up and external organisations are asking to collaborate.

“It all says that Gather is valued,” says Ms Holtan. “People getting to know it after one year is a big step. In a year’s time, who knows where it will be. All I know is that it will be forward.”


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Dr Neil Carragher, (centre) with PhD students Craig Fraser and Scott Warchal, and

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Useful linkswww.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/cancerdrug-280414www.ecrc.ed.ac.uk

We can see how experimental drugs are working inside the cells – in real time. And we’re working with the School of Informatics to deepen our understanding and use of these imaging techniques, which in turn gives us a better understanding of how the drugs work. Dr Neil Carragher, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre

Visualising a cure for cancer

In 2014, a team based in the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, led by Dr Neil Carragher, made headlines by being among the first experts in the world to work in a potentially revolutionary field called phenotypic drug discovery.

Phenotypic drug discovery involves highly specialised biological screening technologies, including advanced imaging of patient-derived cancer cells – techniques in which Edinburgh excels. The team’s cutting-edge approach also involves testing the effect of a drug on the disease as a whole, rather than the conventional approach of examining a drug’s impact on an individual target protein within a tumour.

Since Dr Carragher joined the University from the pharmaceutical industry in 2010, the scope of the Edinburgh Cancer Discovery Unit (ECDU) has expanded. Patents have been lodged on promising cancer-fighting compounds discovered by the ECDU, collaborations formed with the pharmaceutical industry worldwide, and partnerships are up and running with other academic institutions across the UK, Europe, the US, and Australia. Interest in the field has never been greater.

Recent scientific publications – including one from Dr Carragher’s lab, published in the journal Nature Reviews Cancer – have served to stir serious academic and industry engagement with the ECDU.

“During the past two years, this area has become a really hot topic,” says Dr Carragher. “It seems that the phenotypic strategy we have been working on is becoming more accepted as a solution to increasing the productivity of drug development in the pharmaceutical industry.

“It’s getting harder for pharmaceutical companies to make drugs through the traditional route of targeting treatments to particular proteins linked to cancer. It’s very expensive to do this and, ultimately, it’s very hard to predict the critical protein targets.

“Phenotypic drug discovery provides a more cost-effective and unbiased solution to identifying valuable candidate drugs and their protein targets. We think that, in time, we will get better candidate drugs that don’t fail at late stages of development.”

Currently, just five per cent of drugs tested in clinical trials for cancer are approved for patient use. The majority of drugs in trials fail due to either toxicity or poor efficacy. Using imaging tools allows Dr Carragher and his team to rapidly screen thousands of compounds and drug combinations against different cancers, and using automated microscopes they can track fluorescent dyes within cells.

“We use image analysis tools to automatically record changes in the cancer as a whole in response to drug treatment. We can see how experimental drugs are working inside the cells – in real time. And we’re working with the School of Informatics to deepen our understanding and use of these imaging techniques, which in turn gives us a better understanding of how the drugs work,” Dr Carragher explains.

As well as leading this potentially life-changing area of research, Dr Carragher currently supervises five PhD students, who are learning at the very heart of these new developments.

Another exciting initiative in the Unit’s work is the creation of a new chemistry laboratory within the ECDU. Led by Dr Asier Unciti-Broceta, it is one of only a handful in the world to be based on a hospital site.

“The chemistry lab is a three-way collaboration between chemists, biologists and doctors,” explains Dr Carragher. “Chemical molecules are tested against biological models. Biologists feedback their findings to the chemistry lab, and the process is repeated to improve the drug design. It is a very quick and agile process.”

Cancer is not the only disease in the sights of these innovative drug discovery experts. Dr Carragher and colleagues are currently setting up the Edinburgh Phenotypic Assay Development Unit in the University’s Queen’s Medical Research Institute. The team there will transfer approaches used in cancer to other disease areas such as neurodegenerative diseases, which are similar to cancer in their complexity.

Working with Professor Siddharthan Chandran and Professor Charles ffrench-Constant, of the Medical Research Council’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine, the group will test drugs to treat the fatal Lou Gehrig’s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord.

Collaborations are already proving fruitful, which Dr Carragher attributes to strong links with NHS colleagues.

“One of the reasons that international pharmaceutical companies want to work with us is because we’re close to patients,” Dr Carragher explains. “It’s one of our unique selling points. Secondly, we have access to patient cell samples – both healthy cells and cancer cells – so we can gain a better understanding of what drives cancer to develop and spread. It also enables us to hypothesise which drugs will beat the disease – and which will not.”

Having access to such samples means that academics can first test new drug combinations on patient-derived cells to prioritise the most promising therapeutic strategies for clinical trials in patients.

For Dr Carragher it always comes back to collaboration: “Our proximity to hospitals in Edinburgh provides clinical insight on a daily basis, which is so important. Although we’re working in the lab, we can find out what the key clinical issue is and then quickly develop our translational programmes to address it.”


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The 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day on 8 March, is a globally recognised day to inspire women and honour their achievements. For the 100th anniversary of International Women’s Day the University and Edinburgh University Students’ Association hosted a programme of events for the University and the wider community, including a portrait photography exhibition held in Old College quad throughout spring. The exhibition, called Inspiring Women, was so successful it later moved to Teviot Square and George Street for the summer.

Useful linksTo view the entire exhibition and find out more about these inspiring women, please visit: http://edin.ac/1AeV4WR

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Review of the yearA selection of the highlights from the University year 2013/14.

November 2013Rowan Williams delivers Gifford Lectures

September 2013On the same page as students

August 2014Festival city: festival universityThe University’s Talbot Rice Gallery, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival, hosted the work of the late visual artist Nam June Paik (1932–2006), marking the 50th anniversary of his first solo exhibition in 1963, and the first time the Korean American’s subversive work had been exhibited in Scotland. Transmitted Live: Nam June Paik Resounds saw the Talbot Rice hanging tens of cathode-ray tube TV monitors from ceilings with installations of screens around its walls. As part of the counter-cultural movements of the 1960s, Paik believed that artists should humanise technology, and he treated it as a material part of his repertoire, which later expanded to include video, satellite transmissions, robots and lasers. The first Nam June Paik exhibition in Scotland, birthplace of electromagnetic theory and television technology, resounded throughout the city and beyond. To celebrate the exhibition Japanese, Korean and British composers performed in the gallery, with an accompanying programme of workshops and public lectures held at Edinburgh College of Art.

October 2013Princess Royal opens world’s first carbon centreAfter 19 months of refurbishment and £10.5 million investment, the world’s first carbon innovation centre officially opened its doors in October. The Princess Royal, the University’s Chancellor, visited the ancient site of Old High School, part of the University’s Central Area campus, to open what is now the George and Kaity David Centre – named after alumnus businessman George David and his wife, whose donations helped make the project a reality. The carbon innovation centre, hosted by the University of Edinburgh, in partnership with Heriot-Watt University and Edinburgh Napier, acts as a hub, bringing together experts from business, government and academia to innovate and solve the complex problems associated with the transition to a low-carbon future. The Princess Royal and George and Kaity David were given a tour of the building with the Principal, meeting PhD students at work there, as well as the architectural design team, whose work meant the building became the first refurbished building in the UK to achieve the Outstanding industry sustainability BREEAM standard.

Visit the building for a 360 tour: http://youtu.be/u3CRZRPH8OU

Former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Rowan Williams of Oystermouth, delivered six lectures as part of the University of Edinburgh Gifford Lectures in November. His lectures explored the links between nature, religion, and the language habits our society has developed. Lord Williams is acknowledged internationally as an outstanding religious leader and thinker and spent ten years as the Archbishop of Canterbury – the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England – only stepping down earlier in 2013 to be a peer in the House of Lords and take up an academic post at Cambridge. The Gifford Lectures have been delivered annually since 1888 by a succession of distinguished international scholars. Those who secured a place in Edinburgh’s New College heard Lord Williams speak in the impressive surroundings of the Assembly Hall. The series was also streamed live online to an international audience.

To watch now, please visit: www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/humanities-soc-sci/news-events/lectures/gifford-lectures

December 2013REF ranking reaffirms Edinburgh’s place as global leaderThe Research Excellence Framework (REF), which has replaced the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) as the mechanism for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, required the University to complete its return in December 2013. This major exercise involved a large number of staff across the University in all colleges and support groups. The number of researchers included in the

submission was substantially higher than the previous assessment in 2008, increasing to 1,852 individuals – 83 per cent of the academic workforce. The University submitted returns to 31 units of assessment, including six joint submissions. The REF results were published in December 2014.

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The first University-wide student communications campaign, designed to help enhance the student experience, was launched in September 2013. The ‘On the Same Page as You’ campaign built on the ongoing dialogue between the University and its students and highlighted the University’s efforts to ensure students have the best possible experience at Edinburgh. The year-long campaign provided opportunities for encouraging staff-student exchanges through a variety of activities across traditional and digital channels. Social media played a central role, with a series of Google+ Hangout events (live-streamed video calls). At these, student representatives had the opportunity to raise issues and discuss topics that matter most to them with the Principal and other senior staff members. The campaign was inspired by the desire to provide a platform for honest, straightforward collaboration between the University and its students, and between students and their peers.

January 2014Collaborative research offers cancer insightIn January new findings by scientists within the University’s School of Biological Sciences explained a key part of the process of cell division, which could aid our understanding of cancer. Researchers discovered a set of proteins that stabilise the sequence of events in which cells duplicate their DNA and then separate into two new cells, each identical to the original. The findings help explain a fundamental process in all living things, in which cells must continually divide to keep the organism alive and well. They found that a set of proteins, known as the Ska complex, help anchor DNA, the form of chromosomes, by interacting with strands of cell material. Chromosomes remain attached to these strands as they are separated, in a process that helps distribute DNA correctly to the newly formed cells. The study, carried out collaboratively with the University of Basel, Technische Universität Berlin, and the National Institute of Immunology in New Delhi, and published in Nature Communications, is believed to represent a significant milestone and offer new insight in the fight against cancer.

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May 2014Funding for a fuller student experience

March 2014New generation supercomputer unveiled

February 2014Informing the Scottish Referendum debateThe University launched its Referendum Blog in February, designed to inform the public debate in the immediate lead up to the referendum on Scottish independence. Entitled Scotland’s Referendum: Informing the Debate, the blog hosted expert analysis from academics across the University. Informed by world-leading research, the blog looked at issues including the legal, political and economic implications of independence in an impartial way. From the beginning of the referendum campaign Edinburgh

scholars were called upon to provide objective analysis, based on robust research, to both sides of the debate. Through public events and discussions, the academic community at Edinburgh has played an important part in informing and enabling a community of voters across Scotland to understand the broad scope of complex issues under scrutiny. The blog was a useful and accessible means of providing a platform for sharing research, commentary and information on events.

April 2014A first for sustainabilityIn April the University launched a Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability. The University’s Senior Vice-Principal External Engagement, Professor Mary Bownes opened the new department at the University’s annual Sustainability Awards ceremony at the student union, Teviot House, where 35 awards were announced for teams of staff and students across the University. Edinburgh is the first university in the UK to have a Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability, which is responsible for promoting and

embedding sustainable practices within the University, including energy efficiency, recycling and ethical investment and procurement. It also works to provide expert advice and support for students, academics and other staff.

The now annual Sustainability Awards are run jointly by the Department for Social Responsibility and Sustainability and Edinburgh University Students’ Association (EUSA) and recognise individuals, groups, offices and laboratories for their work to improve sustainability.

The University launched the Principal’s Go Abroad Fund in May, open to all students to help them travel overseas for a short international experience. Current students were invited to apply for funds, from £350 to £700, for up to one month’s experience abroad. The experiences the fund aims to support include conferences, society exchanges, and any kind of cross-disciplinary learning experience. Students were also invited to suggest their own ideas for an educational trip. To ensure they got the most out of their travels, an element of self-reflection was a mandatory component. Experiences in 2014 ranged from helping build a children’s hospital in Uganda, to a costume internship at the New York Theatre Workshop, a sports-related work placement in eastern Ghana, and an engineering programme – with Mandarin-learning – in China. Pictured is Veterinary Medicine student Eilidh Kirkwood taking a blood sample from a rhino. Eilidh was on the Vets Go Wild programme, based in Amakhala Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

June 2014Enlightenment rebornEdinburgh’s Enlightenment Reborn, a special event held in the McEwan Hall in June, honoured Peter Higgs, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in October 2013. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences’ award to Professor Higgs recognised his outstanding contribution to the theoretical work that led to the prediction of the Higgs boson particle, first postulated by Professor Higgs in 1964 when he was a young lecturer at Edinburgh. The Nobel Prize was awarded jointly to

Professor Higgs and Professor Francois Englert. Later in the year the Scottish government announced £2 million support for the University’s new Higgs Centre, underway at King’s Buildings campus. Then First Minister Alex Salmond made the announcement at a ceremony at the Scottish Parliament where Professor Higgs was presenting awards to 18-year old Lucy Willets-White and 17-year old Peter Rhodes, inaugural winners of the Higgs Prize, established to reward and inspire Scotland’s best young physicians.

A supercomputer capable of more than one million billion calculations a second was launched at the University in March. The £43 million Academic Research Computing High End Resource (ARCHER) system will provide high-performance computing support for research and industry projects across the UK. ARCHER will help researchers carry out complex calculations in diverse areas such as simulating the Earth’s climate, calculating the airflow around aircraft, and designing new materials. The supercomputer’s magnitude and design will enable scientists to tackle problems on a scale that was previously thought impossible. Housed at the University’s Advanced Computing Facility at Easter Bush, it has up to three and a half times the speed of the HECTOR supercomputer system, which it replaces. The system brings together the UK’s most powerful computer with one of its largest data centres as it creates a facility to support Big Data applications, identified by the UK Government as one of its Eight Great Technologies. The building housing the ARCHER system is among the greenest computer centres in the world, with cooling costs of only eight pence for every pound spent on power.

July 2014MOOCs reach a million learnersThe final month of the University’s financial year saw the creation of new MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) at Edinburgh. Two of 2014’s key events formed the basis of the new programmes of study: the FIFA World Cup and Scotland’s independence vote. The six-week courses involved a mix of teaching styles, including video presentations, online debates and role play exercises. The Referendum course led by Professor Charlie Jeffery and Dr Nicola McEwen placed learners at the heart of the Referendum question by examining arguments for and against, with lively debate guided by University academics, and involving an international dimension by examining the implications for other regions of the world including Catalonia, Flanders and Quebec. The football MOOC explored the world’s most popular game and its role in the world today. It coincided with the Homeless World Cup, which took place in Chile this year. Professor Grant Jarvie and colleagues from the University’s Institute for Sport, Physical Education and Health Sciences ran the course. These two new MOOCS were the latest in a series of 16 being offered by the University, in conjunction with FutureLearn, the social learning platform. More than one million people have signed up for Edinburgh’s MOOCs since they were launched in July 2012.


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Financial review The past year has been a busy and eventful one in which the University has been much in the spotlight as it continued to make new advances in research, teaching and innovation. The financial results demonstrate another strong performance in year two of our Strategic Plan 2012–2016, with growth in student numbers, sustained high-quality research activity, investment in improving the student experience and investment in the volume and quality of academic staff.

Highlights include:

Alumni • £14.2 million in cash donations from alumni.

Total income and expenditure • Total income was £781 million, an increase of 5.8 per cent on the previous year (£738 million in 2012/13).• Total expenditure was £747 million (£700 million in 2012/13).• There was strong income growth across all areas apart from funding council grants.

Research grants and contracts • Research income increased by £16 million, to £216 million, and now represents 28 per cent of total income. New awards to the value of £270 million were secured during the year.

Commercialisation • 35 new companies and 48 commercial licences were created.

Operating surplus • The ratio of operating surplus to total income at four per cent reflected planned investment in staff and infrastructure refurbishment (five per cent in 2012/13).

Endowment performance • The return on the University’s endowment in the financial year was 7.6 per cent, with a year-end market value of the fund of £298 million. The 10-year average return on the University’s endowment fund is 9.1 per cent.

Student support • More than £20 million was spent on student funding and awards in 2013/14.

Staff • Staff cost as a proportion of total income was 52.5 per cent and reflects the impact of the investment in volume and quality of our staff.

Debt • There is less than £23 million of loans repayable in five years.

Capital expenditure • The development pipeline exceeds £1 billion over the next 12 years and £340 million has been committed to capital projects at the design or construction stage.

Balance sheet • The group balance sheet remains strong with net assets of £1,717 million.

Pensions • Funding level of the Universities Superannuation Scheme was 68 per cent (77 per cent in 2012/13) and the balance sheet deficit on the Staff Benefits Scheme and others was £103 million (£64 million in 2012/13).

Financial health • Our current assets and cash reserves, measured against liabilities, provide a healthy liquidity ratio of 1.82 and low gearing with debt, measured against general and endowment reserves of 7.96 per cent. Discretionary reserves of 82.3 per cent of income (81.4 per cent in 2012/13) maintain long-term financial sustainability.

Group income and expenditure account for the year ended 31 July

2014 2013£’000 £’000

IncomeFunding council grants 204,116 204,282Tuition fees and education contracts 194,067 174,079Research grants and contracts 215,934 200,123Other income 147,389 141,732Endowment and investment income 19,124 17,570

Total income 780,630 737,786

ExpenditureStaff costs 409,994 377,265Other operating expenses 299,367 284,765Depreciation 32,292 32,699Interest payable 5,538 5,604

Total expenditure 747,191 700,333

Surplus on continuing operations after depreciation of assets at valuation and before taxation 33,439 37,453

Gain on disposal of fixed assets – 547Taxation (31) (5)

Minority interest (5) (9)Transfers from accumulated income in endowment funds (3,003) 265

Surplus for the year retained within general reserves 30,400 38,251

Group balance sheet as at 31 July

2014 2013£’000 £’000

Fixed assets 1,421,115 1,398,874Endowment asset investments 297,942 283,525Net current assets 216,636 200,062

Total assets less current liabilities 1,935,693 1,882,461

Creditors: amounts falling due after more than one year (106,521) (108,579)Provisions for liabilities and charges (9,570) (9,570)Pension liability (102,993) (64,181)

Total net assets 1,716,609 1,700,131

Represented by:Deferred capital grants 378,095 366,077

Endowments:Expendable 192,644 183,510Permanent 105,298 102,015

Total endowments 297,942 283,525

ReservesRevaluation reserve 693,368 697,682General reserves excluding pension liability 450,153 416,989Pension reserve (102,993) (64,181)

Total reserves 1,040,528 1,050,490

Minority interest 44 39

Total funds 1,716,609 1,700,131

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Dr Toshi Tada DoiInventor of Sony Walkman and other Sony creationsDoctor honoris causa

General John de ChastelainFormer Chair of the International Commission on Decommissioning in Northern IrelandDoctor honoris causa

The Right Hon Beverley McLachlinChief Justice of CanadaDoctor honoris causa

Mr Garrett Herman Chairman and Chief Executive of Loewen, Ondaatje, McCutcheon Ltd Doctor of Letters

Professor Veena DasKrieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins UniversityDoctor of Science in Social Science

Dr Margaret AtwoodNovelist, Literary Critic, Essayist and Environmental ActivistDoctor of Letters

Dr Brian BathgateCorporate Senior Vice-President, European Preclinical Services, Charles River LaboratoriesDoctor of Science

Professor Rolf-Dieter HeuerDirector-General of CERNDoctor of Science

Mrs Sheila Margaret Fleet OBEFounder of Orkney Designer JewelleryMaster of Arts

Professor Nigel Leslie Brown OBEEmeritus Professor of Molecular Microbiology, the University of EdinburghDoctor of Science

Professor Baron François EnglertEmeritus Professor of Physics, Université Libre de BruxellesDoctor of Science

Mr Graham Taylor DeyFormer ECA Student Representative Council AdministratorMaster of Arts

University Benefactors

Professor Alasdair Gilleasbuig Boyd RobertsonPrincipal, the University of the Highlands and IslandsDoctor of Education

Mr James Tait TurnerRetired College Accountant, the University of Edinburgh Master of Arts

Professor April Mary Scott McMahonVice-Chancellor Aberystwyth UniversityDoctor honoris causa

Professor Francis Joseph CairnsProfessor of Classical Languages, Florida State UniversityDoctor of Letters

Dr Rowan Douglas WilliamsFormer Archbishop of CanterburyDoctor of Divinity

Professor Dinesh SinghVice-Chancellor Delhi UniversityDoctor honoris causa

Dr Theofanis KanellosDirector, Strategic Alliances ZOETISDoctor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery

Professor Thomas Walter Bannerman KibbleEmeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, Imperial College LondonRoyal Society of Edinburgh Gold Medal; Doctor of Science

Professor Thomas Roland InselDirector of US National Institute of Mental HealthDoctor of Science

Professor Peter HiggsEmeritus Professor of Physics, the University of EdinburghDoctor of Science from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Professor Eve Cordelia JohnstoneEmeritus Professor of Psychiatry, the University of EdinburghDoctor of Medicine

Professor Ewoud Herman HondiusProfessor of European Private Law, Utrecht UniversityDoctor of Laws

Dr John Robert BrownChair, Easter Bush Development Board, Roslin FoundationDoctor honoris causa

Mr Roger Alexander WhiteChief Executive Officer of AG BarrDoctor honoris causa

Professor Gita SenProfessor, Indian Institute of Management, BangaloreDoctor of Science in Social Science

Professor Sir Drummond BoneMaster of Balliol College, Oxford UniversityDoctor of Education

Mr (Andrew) Gavin Hastings OBEFormer International Rugby PlayerDoctor honoris causa

Ms Anne DonovanWriterDoctor honoris causa

Professor (Robert Fitzroy) Roy FosterCarroll Professor of Irish History, Oxford UniversityDoctor of Letters

Professor Iain James ClarkeHead of Department of Physiology, Monash UniversityDoctor of Science

Professor Derek BokFormer President of Harvard UniversityDoctor of Laws

Professor Kwame Anthony Akroma-Ampim Kusi AppiahPhilosopher, Cultural Theorist and NovelistDoctor of Letters

Dr Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul KalamFormer President of IndiaDoctor of Science

His Excellency President John KufourFormer President of GhanaDoctor of Laws

Ms Judith MurrayTennis coach and Captain of the British Federation Cup TeamDoctor honoris causa

Ms Kathryn (Katie) Michelle PatersonIndependent ArtistHonorary Fellow

Ms Lynne RamsayFilm Writer, Producer and DirectorDoctor honoris causa

Professor Joel RosenthalPresident of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International AffairsDoctor of Science in Social Science

Professor Emma RothschildProfessor of History, Harvard UniversityDoctor of Letters

Professor Julia Mary SlingoChief Scientist, UK Met OfficeDoctor of Science

Professor Dorothy Edith SmithAdjunct Professor of Sociology, Victoria UniversityDoctor of Science in Social Science

Sir Steve RedgraveOlympic Rower and Sports AmbassadorDoctor honoris causa

Professor Jeremy WaldronProfessor of Law, New York UniversityDoctor of Science in Social Science

Mrs Susie WolffRacing DriverHonorary Fellow

Dr William Jay ZachsFormer Fellow, the University of Edinburgh Doctor of Letters

Mr Mike Hickeyon behalf of Wolfson Microelectronics

Ms Malala YousafzaiHuman Rights Campaigner and Educational ActivistMaster of Arts

Mr Derek Harry Moss and Mrs Maureen Joan Moss

Dr Elaine Joy Sypert and Dr George Walter Sypert

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Awards and achievementsA selection of accolades bestowed upon members of staff and associates of the University of Edinburgh between 1 August 2013 and 31 July 2014.

Queen’s Honours

New Year Honours List Professor Adrian Bird, Buchanan Professor of Genetics, was knighted for services to science.

Alastair Fowler, Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature, was appointed CBE for services to literature and education.

Professor O James Garden, Regius Chair of Clinical Surgery, was appointed CBE for services to surgery.

Harvey McGregor QC, Visiting Professor, was appointed CBE for services to the law and education.

Professor Lesley Yellowlees, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Science & Engineering, was appointed CBE for services to chemistry.

Professor Nigel Brown, Emeritus Professor of Molecular Microbiology, was appointed OBE for services to science.

Mrs Margaret Tait, University Court member, was appointed MBE for services to education.

www.ed.ac.uk/news/2014/ honours-030114

Birthday Honours ListProfessor Tom Devine, Personal Senior Research Chair of History, was knighted for services to scholarship.

Professor Aziz Sheikh, Director of the Asthma UK Centre for Applied Research and co-Director of the Centre for Population Health Sciences, was appointed OBE for services to medicine.

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University awards

Alumnus of the YearThe 2013 award was given to Lesley Yellowlees CBE, Vice-Principal and Head of the College of Science & Engineering, for advancing the role of women in science.

2013 Chancellor’s AwardsThese annual awards, presented by the University’s Chancellor, are given in recognition of innovation, relevance, creativity and personal dedication in teaching and research.

The School of Mathematics’ Professor Agata Smoktunowicz received the Research Award.

Professor Helen Cameron, Director of the Centre for Medical Education in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine, received the Teaching Award.

Dr Catherine Heymans, Reader in Astrophysics in the School of Physics & Astronomy, received the Rising Star Award.

www.ed.ac.uk/news/staff/2013/ chancellors-awards-081013

EUSA Teaching Awards 2014The EUSA Teaching Awards recognise teaching excellence.

Best Feedback: Dr Dan Swanton (School of GeoSciences)

Best Personal Tutor: Dr Ulf-Dietrich Schoop (School of History, Classics & Archaeology)

Best Postgraduate Tutor: Ms Eliana Lambrou (School of Physics & Astronomy)

Best Research or Dissertation Supervisor: Dr Samantha Griffiths (Division of Pathway Medicine)

Teaching with Technology Award: Dr David Kaufman (School of History, Classics & Archaeology)

Peer Support Award: Ms Alice Cezanne & Ms Emma Butcher (Biomedical Society)

Kendell Award for Teaching in Medicine: Professor Simon Maxwell (School of Clinical Sciences)

Teaching in Veterinary Sciences Award: Dr Susan Kempson (Royal [Dick] School of Veterinary Sciences)

Van Heyningen Award for Teaching in Science & Engineering: Professor Iain Gordon (School of Mathematics)

Ian Campbell Award for Teaching in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Dr Rob Dinnis (School of History, Classics & Archaeology)

Supporting Students’ Learning Award: Ms Tracy Noden (School of Biomedical Sciences)

2013 Principal’s MedalsThese medals are awarded to recognise staff or students who have made a significant contribution to the University and those who have made an impact in the wider community outside the University.

The Medal for Outstanding Service was awarded to Professor Scott Murray, St Columba’s Hospice Chair of Primary Palliative Care in the Centre for Population Health Science. It also recognises the work of Professor Murray’s Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Dr Elizabeth Grant, Dr Kirsty Boyd and Dr Marilyn Kendall.

The Medal for Service to the Community was awarded to Rebecca MacKenzie, Pro Bono Coordinator and Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Law’s Centre for Professional Legal Studies.

www.ed.ac.uk/news/staff/2013/ medal-winners-050713

Tam Dalyell Prize for Excellence in Engaging the Public with ScienceThis annual prize rewards an individual or group for work with a focus on science communication.

The 2014 award was given to Professor Harald Haas, Chair of Mobile Communications.

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Fellowships

Google Europe Doctoral FellowshipMr Jakub Konecný, a first-year PhD student, was awarded the 2014 Google Europe Doctoral Fellowship in Optimization Algorithms.

Higher Education AcademyPrincipal Fellowships were awarded to: Jamie Davies, Professor of Experimental Anatomy; Tonks Fawcett, Professor of Student Learning (Nurse Education); Alan Murray, Professor and Dean of Students, School of Engineering; Professor Susan Rhind, Chair of Veterinary Medical Education; Dr Sue Rigby, Vice-Principal Learning and Teaching.

Royal Academy of EngineeringChris Hall, Professor Emeritus and Senior Professorial Fellow in the School of Engineering, was elected Fellow, in recognition of his achievements in the field of materials engineering.

Royal SocietyProfessor Paul Attfield, Chair of Materials Science at Extreme Conditions and Director of the Centre for Science at Extreme Conditions, and Peter Keightley, Professor of Evolutionary Genetics in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology, were made Fellows.

Royal Society of EdinburghUniversity of Edinburgh academics elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh:

Judith Allen, Professor of Immunobiology and Director of Research; Mark Blaxter, Professor of Evolutionary Genomics; Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Professor of Medical and Family Sociology; Natascha Gentz, Professor of Chinese Studies; Anna Glasier OBE, Honorary Professor, School of Clinical Sciences; Professor Andrew Jackson, Professorial Fellow of Human Genetics; Ben Leimkuhler, Chair of Applied Mathematics; Professor Keith Matthews, Director, Centre for Immunity, Infection and Evolution; Malcolm McMahon, Professor of High Pressure Physics; Professor Susan McVie, Professor of Quantitative Criminology; Andrew Rambaut, Personal Chair in Molecular Evolution; Don Sannella, Professor of Computer Science; Professor Peter Simmonds, Personal Chair of Molecular Virology; Peter Tasker, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry; Jacques Vanneste, Personal Chair in Fluid Dynamics.

Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Government Dr Lyuba Chumakova, Whittaker Research Fellow, was awarded a five-year Personal Research Fellowship.

Making an impact

2014 RISE (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers) LeaderProfessor Harald Haas, Chair of Mobile Communications, was honoured by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for his achievements as an innovator in engineering and physical sciences research.

Nobel PrizePeter Higgs, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, was awarded a 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics. The honour recognises his 1964 theory of how elemental particles achieve mass, and its effect on our understanding of physics.

Thomson Reuters Highly Cited ResearchersInstitute for Astronomy Professors John Peacock and Rob Ivison were included in Thomson Reuters’ 2014 Highly Cited Researchers listing, a compilation of influential names in science whose published articles rank among the top one per cent of the most cited in their respective fields in the year of publication.

Local heroes

British Neuroscience Association (BNA) Dr Jane Haley, Edinburgh Neuroscience Coordinator, received the BNA Award for the Public Understanding of Neuroscience.

Freedom of the CityPeter Higgs, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, was awarded the Freedom of the City of Edinburgh and Newcastle. Both honours mark his contribution to theoretical physics.

Queen’s HonoursMrs Caroline Freedman, who has raised funds for the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies for more than a decade, was awarded a British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Scottish BAFTAsMs Emma Davie, Programme Leader in Film & Television at ECA, won the 2013 Scottish BAFTA Best Director award along with co-director Ms Morag McKinnon for their documentary I Am Breathing.

Excellent service

Royal College of Veterinary SurgeonsMs Hayley Walters, Anaesthesia and Welfare

Veterinary Nurse at the Hospital for Small Animals and Jeanne Marchig International Centre for Animal Welfare Education, received the Veterinary Nursing Golden Jubilee Award, in recognition of her teaching, clinical and international outreach work.

UK Political Studies AssociationDr Elizabeth Bomberg, Politics Senior Lecturer, received the UK Political Studies Association’s (PSA’s) Bernard Crick Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Rising stars

Bayer Early Excellence in Science AwardDr Steven Spoel, Principal Investigator and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, received the 2013 Biology Award in recognition of his research in systems biology. The awards encourage the work of promising early-career research talents from natural sciences and engineering disciplines.

British AcademyPhilipp Kircher, Professor in Economics, received the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Science’s Wiley Prize in Economics, which recognises achievement in research by an outstanding early-career economist.

Royal Society of EdinburghDr Katie Stevenson, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, was awarded the Thomas Reid Medal (Early Career Prize) in recognition of her outstanding work on the cultural and political history of late medieval Scotland.

Royal Academy of Engineering Ms Camille French, Mr David MacDonald and Mr Ruaridh MacDonald, fourth-year chemical engineering students, won Engineering Leadership Advanced Awards, which provide motivation and support for exceptional engineering undergraduates in British universities.

Shell and the Institute of PhysicsMs Anne Pawsey, a PhD student in the School of Physics & Astronomy’s Soft Matter Physics Group, won the 2013 Very Early Career Women Physicist Award.

Outstanding research

Academy of Social SciencesFran Wasoff, Emeritus Professor of Family Policies, was named an Academician in recognition of her contribution to socio-legal research in family law in Scotland.

British Society for ParasitologyProfessor Alex Rowe, Personal Chair in Molecular Medicine, was jointly awarded the CA Wright Medal in

recognition of her outstanding contributions to the discipline of parasitology.

Royal Geographical SocietyGeoffrey Boulton, Regius Professor of Geology Emeritus, received the Founder’s Medal for the development and promotion of glaciology.

Royal SocietyProfessor Graeme Ackland, of the School of Physics & Astronomy’s Institute for Condensed Matter & Complex Systems, received the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, which recognises outstanding scientists working in the UK.

Royal Society of EdinburghRichard Morris CBE, Professor of Neuroscience at the Centre for Cognitive & Neural Systems, was awarded a 2014 Royal Medal, the Royal Society’s most prestigious annual award, for his outstanding contribution to the field of neuroscience.

International acclaim

BBVA Foundation Professor Sir Adrian Bird, Buchanan Professor of Genetics, received the Frontiers of Knowledge Award for Biomedicine for discoveries in epigenetics.

Indian National Science AcademyEuan Brechin, Professor of Coordination Chemistry, has been awarded the Academy’s Professor AS Paintal Chair, which is awarded to outstanding overseas scientists.

Italian honourProfessor Stefano Brandani, Chair of Chemical Engineering, was made a Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy (Cavaliere dell’Ordine della Stella d’Italia). The award is bestowed by decree of the Italian President and is one of Italy’s highest honours.

Shaw Prize (Astronomy)John Peacock, Professor of Cosmology at the Institute for Astronomy, was jointly awarded Asia’s most prestigious science award for his study of galaxies that has furthered understanding of the evolution of the universe.

Society in ScienceDr Pedro Vale, evolutionary biologist and research fellow at the Centre for Immunity, Infection & Evolution, was made a Branco Weiss Fellow by Society in Science at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

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College of Humanities & Social Science

Personal Chairs

Professor John ArdilaPersonal Chair of Modern Spanish and Comparative Literature

Professor Crispin BatesPersonal Chair of Modern and Contemporary South Asian History

Professor Martin ChickPersonal Chair of Economic History

Professor Sarah CooperPersonal Chair of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development

Professor Penelope FieldingPersonal Chair of 19th Century Literature

Professor Susan Hardman MoorePersonal Chair of Early Modern Religion

Professor Martin HoggPersonal Chair of the Law of Obligations

Professor Cristina IannelliPersonal Chair of Education and Social Stratification

Professor Jesper KallestrupPersonal Chair of Mental Philosophy

Professor Catherine Lyall Personal Chair of Science and Public Policy

Professor Stana NenadicPersonal Chair of Social History and Cultural History

Professor Olga TaxidouPersonal Chair of Drama and Performance Studies

Professor Heather WilkinsonPersonal Chair of Dementia Practice and Partnership

Professorships

Professor Chris CarterChair of Strategy and Organisation

Professor Mark DorrianForbes Chair of Architecture

Dr Alexander Bangs EdmondsChair of Medical and Social Anthropology

Professor Richard HarrisonChair of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Professor Susan MurphyChair of Leadership Development

Professor Timothy WorralChair of Economics

Honorary Professorships

Simon BiggsEdinburgh College of Art

Dr Alistair ByrneBusiness School

Dr James ClunieBusiness School

Professor Sir Gerald Gordon QCSchool of Law

Alexey KudrinSchool of Literatures, Languages & Cultures

Professor Ian MarchantBusiness School

Professor Sir David TweedieBusiness School

Professor Iain Boyd WhiteEdinburgh College of Art

College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Personal Chairs

Professor Catherina BeckerPersonal Chair of Neural Development and Regeneration

Professor Valerie BruntonPersonal Chair of Cancer Therapeutics

Professor Helen CameronPersonal Chair of (Undergraduate) Medical Education

Professor Michael EddlestonPersonal Chair of Clinical Toxicology

Professor Dingenus MeijerPersonal Chair of Cellular Neurobiology

Professor Rebecca ReynoldsPersonal Chair of Metabolic Medicine

Professor Rustam SalmanPersonal Chair of Clinical Neurology

Professor Philippa SaundersPersonal Chair of Reproductive Steroids

Professor Catherine SudlowPersonal Chair of Neurology and Clinical Epidemiology

Professorships

Professor Timothy AitmanChair of Molecular Pathology and Genetics

Professor Elaine DzierzakChair of Haematological Regeneration

Professor Tanja OpriessnigChair of Infectious Disease Pathology


Professor Andy BakerSchool of Clinical Sciences

Professor Georgios BanosRoyal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Professor Charles Court-BrownSchool of Clinical Sciences

Professor John Vincent ForresterSchool of Clinical Sciences

Professor Guillermina GirardiSchool of Clinical Sciences

Professor Stewart IrvineCollege of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Professor Martin JeffreyRoyal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Professor Victor LopesSchool of Clinical Sciences

Professor John PlevrisSchool of Clinical Sciences

Professor Michael SpeddingSchool of Biomedical Sciences

Professor Mark W J StrachanSchool of Clinical Sciences

Senior Honorary Professorships

Professor Graham PettigrewRoyal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

College of Science & Engineering

Personal Chairs

Professor Agnes BoettcherPersonal Chair of Electron Microscopy and Image Processing

Professor Emily BradyPersonal Chair of Environment and Philosophy

Professor Richard EnnosPersonal Chair of Ecological Genetics

Professor Annette FergusonPersonal Chair of Observational Astrophysics

Professor Kevin HardwickPersonal Chair of Molecular Genetics

Professor Robert IvisonPersonal Chair of Astrophysics

Professor Anita JonesPersonal Chair of Molecular Photophysics

Professor Frank KellerPersonal Chair of Cognitive Science

Professor Mark ParsonsPersonal Chair of High Performance Computing

Professor Hugh SinclairPersonal Chair of Surface Geodynamics

Professor David StevensonPersonal Chair of Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling

Professor Evelyn TelferPersonal Chair of Reproductive Biology

Professor Daniel WattsPersonal Chair of Hadron and Nuclear Physics

Professor Iain WoodhousePersonal Chair of Applied Earth Observation

Professorships

Professor Alistair BorthwickChair of Applied Hydrodynamics

Professor Chris DibbenChair of Geography (Health and Environment)

Professor Guy Lloyd-JonesForbes Chair of Organic Chemistry

Professor Neil McKeownCrawford Tercentenary Chair of Chemistry

Professor Jason ReeseRegius Chair of Engineering

Professor Susan RosserChair of Synthetic Biology


Dr Fabiola GianottiSchool of Physics & Astronomy

Professor Andrew HarrisonSchool of Chemistry

Professor Martin HofmannSchool of Informatics

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Appendix 2Student numbers

Student body by level of study and gender

Student body by College

Student body by domicile region on entry

2005 Men Women TotalApplications* 18,767 22,959 41,726Acceptances 2,043 2,477 4,520



2008** Men Women TotalApplications* 21,193 24,462 45,655Acceptances 2,221 2,618 4,839







Please note: Figures for 2011 include Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) acceptances but exclude ECA applications. Figures from 2012 onwards include both ECA applications and acceptances.

Please note: 12% of undergraduates were studying part-time. 40% of taught postgraduates were studying part-time. 45% of research postgraduates were studying part-time.

Please note: The Channel Islands and Isle of Man students have been categorised as international students.

41,726

4,520

45,214

4,161

48,783

4,378

45,655

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2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

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Acceptances

Humanities & Social Science 20,300

Science & Engineering 7,774

Medicine & Veterinary Medicine 5,036

Total 33,110

Scotland 12,100

International 9,310

Other UK 7,585

Other EU and Cyprus 4,115

Total 33,110

Please note: The figures above represent all students matriculated during the session, with the exception of those exiting or interrupting their studies within five weeks of the first semester start date. Visiting students, part-time and distance learning students, and students on collaborative programmes are included. Domicile on entry is declared by the student when first matriculating onto their programme.

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Please note:*Number of applications received in each cycle for entry in the same year or deferred entry the following year.**UCAS reduced the number of applications per applicant from six to five from the 2008 entry cycle.

Level of study by College

UG PGT PGR Total

Humanities & Social Science 13,858 4,382 2,060 20,300

Science & Engineering 5,319 771 1,684 7,774

Medicine & Veterinary Medicine 2,596 1,377 1,063 5,036

21,773 6,530 4,807 33,110

UG: undergraduatePGT: postgraduate taughtPGR: postgraduate research

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Germany

Canada

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Italy

France

Malaysia

Singapore

Australia

India

Spain

Norway

Bulgaria

Sweden

Poland

Lithuania

Netherlands

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557

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Appendix 3 Benefactions Giving from 1 August 2013 to 31 July 2014

The University is grateful to all donors, including those who wish to remain anonymous.

£1000–£4,999A Sinclair Henderson TrustProfessor Emeritus Vivian C AbrahamsMr Andrew AgnewMr John Balfour AllanMs Katherine AndersonThe late Mr Douglas AndrewMr Colin AngusArdbarron Trust LimitedMrs Cynthia AtkinsonMr J Allan and Mrs June M AuchnieMr Richard AustinBaldoukie TrustBank of America Merrill LynchDr Paul BinnsDr Stuart BlackieMr George BoddieMr Paul J BradleyMs Lorna C BrazellMr Thomas BrooksHon H BroughtonMr Alexander BrownlieMrs Ann BurleighMr Richard BurnsMrs Mary C CadburyMr Stephen CaffertyCairn Energy plcMrs Celia CameronMr Craig CampbellMr Edward Campbell MBEProfessor Ian CampbellMr Gordon CampbellMr Tom CarseMiss Laura CarseProfessor John W Cassels FRS FRSE Mr D B M Cavaye CA Mr Alan ChaineyMr Leon CoatesCoca-Cola Foundation*Mr Robert CockburnMrs Jean P ColquhounMs Audrey K CookMr Stephen CowdenMr Bruce CowieMrs Denise CranleyCummins Generator TechnologiesMrs Mary CurrieMr Mario and Ms Susan D’AmicoMr Stuart J DaviesMr Douglas DenhamMrs Joyce DennyMr Stewart DickDr Maria Dlugolecka-Graham MBEMs Hannah DoyleMr Jeff DreverMrs Nancy DruckerMiss Jenny DurkinThe late Dr Ian DuthieMr Dugald and Mrs Eleanor Eadie

Ede and Ravenscroft LimitedEdinburgh University Club of TorontoEighteenth-Century Scottish Studies

SocietyEmma Cameron FoundationMr Frank EunsonMr Christopher Ewan*Dr Roualeyn Fenton-May*Mrs Charis FergussonProfessor David FergussonDr Marianne FletcherMr John FrameMrs Margaret M GarvieMr Graham GhalebDr Angus GibsonMr John GibsonMs Marlene H GilchristMrs Catherine GolightleyGoogle UK LimitedDr Martin GordonMr Morton GouldMr Malcolm GourlayMr Murray GrantMr Alan GrayGreat Expectations FoundationMr Kenneth GreigDr George GunnH J Heinz Company Foundation*Mr Stuart HaddowMrs Susan HaismanDr Mary HallMr T J D HallMr Ian HarleyRev Dr Harriet HarrisDr Roy Harris OBE Dr Erik HaugeMr Shields HendersonMr Alan HerdHI Events LtdThe Rt Hon Lord Higgins KBE DLProfessor William Hill OBE FRS FRSEDr Edward HoMrs Edie Holiday*Dr John HoneymanDr David HuntIn Conference LtdInner Wheel Club of AllowayInternational Society of Cellular OncologyMiss Fenella JamesDr Brian JamiesonMr David JeenesDr Michael Jesudason*The late Mrs Margaret JohnstonMr David KerrMrs Joan D KiddMr Christopher D KingMr Paul Knott-SmithMr Ramzi S KurbanMr Peter Lamb

Mr W Keddie LawMr Roy LeckieMr Alexander LeslieMr Alan P LiebingMr Gregor R LoganDr Christopher LordMiss Sharon LorimerMrs Mary LoveMr MacdonaldMr Douglas MacDowallMr W K Maciver CBE and

Mrs Virginia Maciver The late Mrs Mary MaciverDr John MackayThe Rt Hon The Lord Mackay of ClashfernMrs Jane MackieMr George MackintoshDr Mary MacleodThe late Mr Peter W MaplesdenMr Peter and Mrs Penny MarrDr Keith MatthewsSir George MathewsonMayfield Salisbury Parish Church of

ScotlandMs Marcella McCarthyMr Gordon McConnachieMr David A McCorquodaleThe Hon Lord James McGhie QC Mr Donald McGregorDr Karina McIntoshMr David and Mrs Morag McIntyreSir Ian McKellenThe late Miss Sybil McKillopMr John D McNeilMr Jeffrey MeekMr Paul MeitnerMerch MerchMetrol Technology LtdMrs C MillerMr David M Millar OBE The late Mrs Ellice MillerSir Ronald Miller CBE Dr Keith MilneDr A Ross K MitchellMr D MonkDr George MorrisMr Brian MuirheadMr M Munro and Dr A MunroMrs Lynda MurrayProfessor Joe Norton*Mr Malcolm I OffordMr Christian O’Meara*Dr John OrwinThe late Ms Elizabeth ParryMr Gavin PattisonLady Fiona PattulloPaul Galvin Memorial Foundation Trust*Mr Alan A PearsonMr Benjamin Pentreath

Mr Murray PrenticeThe Rt Hon Lord ProsserMrs Doreen F PrudenMr Bruce L RaeThe Honourable Lady RaeThe late Dr William RankineDr Anne RichardsMrs Anne Marie RitchieMr James RobbDr Alex RobertsonThe late Mr D S RossMr Ian Russell CBE and

Mrs Fiona RussellMrs Dawn SalvesenMr David SandersScottish Equity PartnersDr Alastair SharpMr Douglas SharpR SheltonThe late Dr Francis SimsDr Anthony Smith and

Mrs Jennifer Kerr SmithDr Isabella SmithMrs Jane SnowdonSouter Charitable TrustLady Valerie Stacey QCMrs Margaret J StephensDr John StewartMr Robert StewartDr Paul StockmanProfessor Sir Fraser Stoddart*Professor Michael StubbsMr Gavin R TaitMrs Anthea M TaylorThe Celtic Lodge The Doreen Maguire Trust for Cancer

ResearchThe Edinburgh Decorative and Fine Arts

SocietyThe Incorporation of St Mary’s ChapelThe James Clerk Maxwell FoundationThe Lanistown TrustThe Martin Connell Charitable TrustThe National Manuscripts Conservation

TrustThe Society of Advocates in AberdeenThe Tay Charitable TrustThe University of Edinburgh Visitor CentreDr John Melvin Thomas*Mr Kenny ThomsMr Pete ThomsToshiba Medical Visualisation SystemsProfessor Sir David and Lady TweedieProfessor Henryk UrichDr Vivienne Van SomerenDr J David R VassMr D W S WardlawWatsonian Football ClubMs Rio WattMr Ian Wattie and Mrs Mya Wattie

Mrs Jane WeaverDr Barbara WestWhite Mountains Insurance Group*Mr Alan C WilliamsonMr David WillisMrs Sarah WoodWood Mackenzie LtdMr Brian R WrightMr Alexander WyndMs Yi XiaThe Very Rev Professor Makoto YamauchiThe late Mrs Isabella YoungMrs Susan Young

£5,000–£9,999Afton ChemicalsAlzheimer ScotlandAnalog Devices LimitedMr Mark D AstaireAtkins Aberdeen LtdMr Geoff Ball FCAMr Michael BarronThe late Miss Estelle BennettBroadcom Europe LtdMrs Ada Brownlie MBEDr Helen CaldwellCalvert 22 FoundationCharlesworthMr John Clare CBEThe late Mr W H CooperMr David J CruickshankCSR plcDr Stella CullingtonDialog SemiconductorRev Elspeth G DougallDrever TrustDziniak Charitable Trust for AnimalsEdinburgh Contemporary Arts Trust (ecat)Mrs Carolyn FerrierMs Claire ForrestMr James HunterMiss Aileen KerDr Kester KongThe late Dr Ian LawrenceMaxim Integrated Products UK LtdMr Ryan McKennaThe late Dr Peter McMullinDr Lilian McNabDr Steven MorleyNexen Petroleum UK LtdMr Sandy Orr OBERev Dr Norma P RobertsonSELEX Galileo/University Liaison &

Emerging TechnoSt Columba’s Church of ScotlandMr David D Stevenson CBE STMicroelectronicsThe Barns-Graham Charitable TrustThe Henry Moore FoundationThe Leverhulme Trade Charities TrustThe Stevenston Charitable TrustVictory TelevisionWalter Scott & Partners LtdMr Simon WeilThe Hon Lady Sarah Wolffe QC and

Mr James Wolffe QC

£10,000–£49,999499535 Ontario LimitedAEB Charitable TrustAutisticaMrs Margaret BaileyBaillie Gifford & CoThe late Ms Jean BanisterThe late Mr Peter BanksMrs Lindsay BarclayBarham Benevolent FoundationMs Pamela Barton MBEMr Alan and Mrs Frances BellMiss Anthea BondCallidus Services LimitedCarnegie Corporation of New York*Castansa TrustDr Armeane and Mrs Mary Choksi*Mrs Kathy Christie Community Child HealthCorran PropertiesThe Rt Hon Lord Coulsfield and

Lady CoulsfieldDerek Stewart Charitable TrustThe late Miss Mary DonaldE.ON New Build & TechnologyEdinburgh Diabetes Research TrustMr James FergusonMr Nicholas Ferguson CBEThe late Mrs Mary FirthMr Ian A GoddenThe late Dr Kenneth HallDr Anthony HaywardHeritage Lottery FundHeritage Lottery Fund ScotlandIntel CorporationJewish Federation of Greater Hartford*The late Mrs Violet KemloKeycom plcKorala Associates LtdMr Victor Loewenstein*Mr Keith and Mrs Kate LoughThe late Mr T MacaulayMr David J Miller and Ms Tina MarinosMr Roger MillerThe late Ms Margaret MitchellMr Derek Moss and Mrs Maureen MossPfizer IncRenal Cancer Research FundThe late Dr Elizabeth RhindMr Robert B RobertsonThe late Mrs Morag RobinsonDr Walter ScottScottish Journal of TheologyThe late Dr Nigel SuessDr George and Dr Joy Sypert*The A G Leventis FoundationThe Crerar Hotels TrustThe John Liston Scottish Charitable TrustRev Bryan and Mrs Jennifer TomlinsonUnite Group PlcProfessor David WainesThe late Rev Miss Jean WatsonThe late Mr Harold WedgwoodThe late Mr Thomas WilsonXerox Foundation Yahoo Labs

£50,000+Binks TrustThe late Mr Ewen K CameronThe late Dr Robin EwartFidelity InternationalRev Robert Funk*The late Dr Elizabeth GrayThe late Dr Douglas HutchisonThe late Mrs Sylvia HydeThe late Dr Arthur KitchinThe late Mr Thomas Laing-ReillyLloyds Banking GroupMr A Donald M MacDonald CBE and

Mrs Louise MacDonaldThe late Dr Iain MacWilliamMarchig Animal Welfare TrustMary Kinross Charitable TrustThe late Mrs Zelda H MillwardMultiple Sclerosis Trials CollaborationThe late Professor Sir Kenneth MurrayNewby TrustNicola Murray FoundationProfessor Walter Nimmo CBE FRSE and

Dr Norma KelletMiss Gladys Ogilvy-ShepherdPrism the Gift FundRow Fogo Charitable TrustSantander PlcScottish PowerThe late Ms Margaret StaffordThe late Mrs Margaret A StewartThe Asfari FoundationThe Dr Mortimer and Theresa Sackler

1988 FoundationThe J Paul Getty Trust*The Lloyd’s Register FoundationThe Muir Maxwell TrustThe RS Macdonald Charitable TrustThe Wolfson FoundationTheirworldMr Malcolm ThomsTotal E & P UK LtdMs Celia UnderhillDr Alfred WildWorldwide Support for Development

Carlyle CircleNew members for the year 2013/14:Ms Catherine AitkenMr Douglas Bain CBE TDMrs Patricia D BakerDr Sheila BirseMrs Mary BlackMr Bela BognarDr David CampbellMr Robert ClarkProfessor David ClarkeMs Carol ClemonsMs Barbara A ColesMrs Veronica J CrerarMrs May B CurrieMs Philippa DawsonMrs Elizabeth de VilliersDr Patricia Donald MBEDr Janet DonerMs Mehri Ebrahimi-Mehr

Dr Patrick EdingtonMr Oliver EllisMrs Jennifer FarthingMs Alison GibbMr Michael GreavesMr Graham HendersonDr Harry HinwoodMrs Gillian HollisMr Grant M HutchisonMr Douglas InnessMr Michael G JacksonDr Alastair JamiesonMr Lennox JohnMr Yu LeiMr Kuan-wei LinDr Allan LittleDr Ian MacdonaldDr Margaret MacnairDr Alastair MailerDr Sheena McDonaldMr Graeme McLellanMr David L McMurtrieMr George M MenziesMr James MurrayMr Philip OrawskiDr S ParisMrs Susan ParisMrs Stephanie PendleburyMr John PilkingtonDr Joyce RichardsonDr William RiddellDr David RobsonMr Malcolm B RossMrs Lorraine SansomDr Bridget ShevlinMr Neil ShortMrs Jane SnowdonMr Malcolm SnowdonMrs Sine StewartMr George L StrangMiss Jennifer SutcliffeMrs Jane TauntonMrs Morag TempleMr Stephen ThomasonGroup Captain Stewart Torode OBE

FRCPMs Joanne WaldieMiss Sheena WestMr Henry WestwaterMr William A WhitfieldMr Andrew D WiddowsonMr David WilsonMr Roger S Windsor MBE Mr Mark WittMr Samuel Wood

* Donors to the University of Edinburgh USA Development Trust Inc, an organisation formed to advance the purpose of the University of Edinburgh.


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Appendix 4 Research grants and other sources of funding

From charities, industry and other institutions

UK – CharitySponsor Project total £’000Agilent Technologies Foundation 18

Alzheimer Scotland – Action on Dementia 17

Alzheimers Research UK 769

Alzheimers Society 85

AMMF The Cholangiocarcinoma Charity 70

Arthritis Research UK 911

Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland 13

Asthma UK 2,050

Bell Foundation 3

Binks Trust 105

Bone Cancer Research Trust 114

Breakthrough Breast Cancer 84

British Heart Foundation 4,648

British Institute at Ankara 2

British Medical Association 38

British Society for Haematology 130

British Society for Neuroendocrinology 7

Cancer Research UK 5,535

Carnegie Trust 81

Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland 154

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants 19

Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland 210

Children’s Liver Disease Foundation 191

Colt Foundation 21

CORE Project 180

Cunningham Trust 87

Cystic Fibrosis Trust 21

Daphne Jackson Trust 57

Darwin Trust 10

Diabetes UK 383

Dogs Trust 103

Edinburgh and Lothian Health Foundation 436

Families of SMA 47

Foundation for Skin Research 44

GALVmed 97

Gordon Cook Foundation 12

Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation 1

Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 35

Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship 11

Institute of Physics 3

Japan Foundation Endowment Committee 2

John Innes Centre 163

Joint Action 5

Joseph Rowntree Foundation 54

Jules Thorn Charitable Trust 171

Lady Tata Memorial Trust 30

LAYC – Youth Scotland 15

Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research 488

Leverhulme Trust 1,727

Lupus UK 24

Macmillan Cancer Support 69

Mason Medical Research Trust 48

Medical Research Foundation 333

Medical Research Scotland (SHERT) 110

Melville Trust 3

Modern Humanities Research Association 25

Motor Neurone Disease Association 214

Multiple Sclerosis Society 157

Muscular Dystrophy Campaign 50

National Centre for Social Research 227

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 24

Newlife Foundation for Disabled Children 118

Nuffield Foundation 1,462

Pancreatic Cancer UK 74

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 2

Peter Palmer Liferent Trust 50

Resuscitation Council (UK) 20

Rosetrees Trust 44

Roslin Foundation Ltd 281

Row Fogo Charitable Trust 148

RP Fighting Blindness 8

Scottish SPCA 26

Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Charity 55

Stroke Association 295

Tenovus – Scotland 18

The Physiological Society 10

The Radcliffe Trust 12

Tommys Campaign 471

UK Literacy Association 2

Universities China Committee-London 1

Wellcome Trust 28,354

52,192

EU – IndustrySponsor Project total £’000Airbus Operations GmbH 139

Alcatel-Lucent Ireland Ltd 35

AstraZeneca 1,165

Evonik 444

Galecto Biotech AB 152

Lilly SA 254

Michelin 179

Realizacion de Iniciativas Alternativas 8

2,376

EU – OtherSponsor Project total £’000European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control 169

European Chemical Industry Council 267

European Institute of Innovation and Technology 46

Fondazione Mondo Digitale 22

Human Frontier Science Program Organization 303

Institute of Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Parasitology 102

International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) 63

Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research 63

Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) AISBL 25

Sapienza Universita Di Roma 7

Technische Universität Dresden 7

Universite de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Vambresis 35

University of Trento 240

1,349

Learned SocietySponsor Project total £’000British Academy 1,221

Royal Academy of Engineering 5

Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh 80

Royal Commission of 1851 102

Royal Society 1,456

Royal Society of Edinburgh 310

Society for Endocrinology 14

Society for Reproduction and Fertility 10

3,198

UK – IndustrySponsor Project total £’000AB Agri 5

AbbVie Ltd 50

Airborne Energy Ltd 9

Andritz Hydro Hammerfest 30

Aquapharm® Biodiscovery Limited 10

Artemis Intelligent Power Ltd 19

AstraZeneca 34

Aviagen 20

Bayer plc 155

Bioparametrics Ltd 77

BPEX Ltd 90

Building Research Establishment 55

Castrol Limited 293

Cherry Valley Farms Limited 36

Chirotech Technology Ltd 22

Cleveland Potash Ltd 112

Cyclacel Limited 265

Eli Lilly and Company Limited 40

Federation of Small Businesses 18

GeneFirst 133

GlaxoSmithKline 712

GlycoMar Ltd 88

Holoxica Ltd 10

Howden Group Limited 10

Infineum UK Ltd 135

Intermune UK & I Limited 141

International Paint Ltd 100

Johnson Matthey Plc 45

Joint Industrial Project 130

LGC Ltd 9

Maxymiser Limited 5

Microsoft Research Ltd 178

Mologic Ltd 10

National Nuclear Laboratories 22

Nova Innovation Limited 75

Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd 31

Phillips Research 22

Psymetrix 10

Qinetiq WSTC 74

SBRI NHS Innovation 98

Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service 743

Scottish Power 518

Scottish Water 4

Selex Ltd 114

SESMOS 112

Shell Research Limited 10

Syngenta 30

Total E&P UK PLC 554

UCB Celltech 120

Wolfson Microelectronics plc 72

5,655

Overseas – CharitiesSponsor Project total £’000American Foundation for Suicide Prevention 60

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association 145

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation 970

Brain & Behavior Research Foundation 36

CHDI Foundation Inc 97

Fight Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) 37

Fukujyukai Medical Foundation 18

ICRISAT: The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics 55

International Center for Tropical Agriculture 129

James S McDonnell Foundation 375

John Templeton Foundation 96

Kenneth Rainin Foundation 61

Mayo Clinic 23

Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada 58

Muscular Dystrophy Association 87

Nuance Foundation, Inc 149

Osteosynthesis & Trauma Care Foundation 30

Rett Syndrome Research Trust 673

Tony Elumelu Foundation 310

Unicef 44

World Health Organization 159

3,612

Overseas – GovernmentSponsor Project total £’000Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation 84

European Office of Aerospace Research & Development 380

Ministry of Culture, Republic of Taiwan 35

National Institute of Standards and Technology 69

National Institutes of Health 866

Other anonymous sponsors 354

Swiss National Science Foundation 74

UK-India Education and Research Initiative 29

USDA, Forest Service Northern Research Station 31

1,922

Overseas – IndustrySponsor Project total £’000Abbott Laboratories 11

ALSTOM (Switzerland) Ltd 15

Autodesk Inc. 45

Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH 20

CEVA Sante Animale 7

Cobb-Vantress Inc 545

Dart NeuroScience 126

Deere and Company 76

DSM Nutritional Products 37

Elanco Animal Health 73

Genzyme Corporation 17

Hewlett-Packard Company 4

Hy-Line International 102

Intel Corporation 57

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation 35

Ovascience Inc 181

Proctor & Gamble 48

Samsung 59

Zoetis 537

1,995

Overseas – OtherSponsor Project total £’000American Wood Council, Inc 9

Aventist Wockhardt Heart Hospital 11

International Fine Particle Research Institute, Inc 44

Japan Science and Technology Agency 195

Norwegian Research Council 143

Texas Engineering Experiment Station 30

432

Overseas – Universities etcSponsor Project total £’000ETH Zurich 29

Iowa State University 10

Johns Hopkins University 59

Lund University 170

NESCent 26

Norwegian University of Science and Technology 32

Peking University Health Science Center 9

Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine 27

Stanford University 9

Swedish Agricultural University 96

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) 18

The University of Queensland 76

Université Laval 3

University of California, Riverside 63

University of Gothenburg 26

University of Minnesota 11

University of Pennsylvania 24

Yale University 57

745

Total from charities, industry and other institutions £’000 73,476

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Appendix 4 Research grants and other sources of funding (continued)

Research Councils and other Government agencies

UK – Research CouncilSponsor Project total £’000Arts and Humanities Research Council 2,675

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council 22,405

Economic and Social Research Council 20,570

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council 24,952

Medical Research Council 30,199

Natural Environment Research Council 9,255

Science and Technology Facilities Council 2,863

112,919

EU – GovernmentSponsor Project total £’000European Commission 52,734

European Molecular Biology Laboratory 139

Fonds National de la Recherche 92

The National Center for Scientific Research 109

53,074

UK – GovernmentSponsor Project total £’000Bòrd Na Gàidhlig 21

British Council 43

British Geological Survey 557

Chief Scientist Office – Scotland 3,370

Commonwealth Scholarships 2

Creative Scotland 16

Department of Health 272

Food Standards Agency 2,064

Foreign Commonwealth Office 99

Forest Research 7

Forestry Commission England 30

Forestry Commission Scotland 78

Government Communications Headquarters 21

Health Protection Scotland 35

Historic Scotland 5

Horserace Betting Levy Board 463

Knowledge Transfer Partnership 138

National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research 730

National Institute for Health Research 3,128

Scottish Environment Protection Agency 30

Scottish Funding Council 65

Scottish Government 2,869

Scottish Mental Health Research Network 8

Technology Strategy Board 1,365

The City of Edinburgh Council 16

The Eccles Centre for American Studies 2

UK Science & Innovation Network 1

UK Space Agency 5

15,440

UK – Health AuthoritiesSponsor Project total £’000National Institute for Biological Standards and Control 419

NHS Blood and Transplant 106

NHS Education for Scotland 24

NHS Health Scotland 13

NHS Lothian 263

NHS Scotland 116

Royal Alexandra Hospital 9

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust 32

982

UK – Universities etcSponsor Project total £’000Aberystwyth University 11

Birkbeck College 100

Birmingham City University 2

City University London 20

Durham University 421

Edinburgh Beltane 7

Edinburgh Napier University 62

Energy Technology Partnership (ETP) 200

Heriot-Watt University 3,473

Higher Education Academy 8

Imperial College 71

Institute of Education 41

Institute of Latin American Studies 2

JISC 67

King’s College London 401

Open University 157

Queen’s University Belfast 334

Scottish Agricultural College 30

Scottish Institute for Policing Research 8

Scottish Universities Insight Institute 28

Scottish Universities Life Science Alliance 12

SICSA 88

The James Hutton Institute 72

University College London 1,632

University of Aberdeen 986

University of Bath 14

University of Birmingham 168

University of Bristol 206

University of Cambridge 254

University of Dundee 25

University of East Anglia 18

University of Exeter 17

University of Glasgow 1,680

University of Kent 42

University of Lancaster 53

University of Leeds 213

University of Liverpool 352

University of Manchester 306

University of Newcastle 299

University of Northumbria 341

University of Nottingham 207

University of Oxford 504

University of Reading 250

University of Southampton 343

University of St Andrews 51

University of Stirling 31

University of Warwick 136

University of York 479

14,222

Total from research councils and other government agencies £’000 196,637

Grand Total £’000 270,113

Note:The above list sets out the total project value of research grants funded from these sponsors. The sponsor will have contributed this whole amount, with the exception of some governmental sources (including research councils) and charitable sources, who fund the majority, with the balance being received indirectly via the Scottish Funding Council.

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