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Alumni Of The University Of Exeter
This is a list of University of Exeter people, including office holders, current and former academics, and alumni of the University of Exeter. In Post-nominal letters, post-nominals, the University of Exeter is abbreviated as ''Exon.'' (from the Latin ''Exoniensis''), and is the suffix given to Honorary Degree, honorary and Academic Degree, academic degrees from the university. Chancellors * Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1955–1972) * Derick Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Viscount Amory of Tiverton (1972–1981) * Rex Richards (chemist), Sir Rex Richards (1982–1998) * Robert Alexander, Baron Alexander of Weedon (1998–2005) * Floella Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin (2006–2016) * Paul Myners, Baron Myners (2016–2021) * Michael Barber (educationist), Sir Michael Barber (2022-) Vice-chancellors Principals of the University College of the South West of England * Hector Hetherington (1920-1924) * Walter Hamilton Moberly (1925–1926) * John Murray (Liberal politician), John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from "to nourish". The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former members of an organization, former contributors, or former inmates. Etymology The Latin noun means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from the Latin verb "to nourish". Separate, but from the same root, is the adjective "nourishing", found in the phrase '' alma mater'', a title for a person's home university. Usage in Roman law In Latin, is a legal term (Roman law) to describe a child placed in foster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Taylor (chemist)
Sir Thomas Weston Johns Taylor, (2 October 1895 – 29 August 1953) was an English chemist, academic, and university administrator. He was the first Principal of the University College of the West Indies, serving from 1946 to 1952, and then Principal of the University College of the South West of England (later Exeter University) from 1952 until his death in 1953. He had previously been a Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford (1920–1946) and a lecturer in organic chemistry at the University of Oxford (1927–1946). He saw active service in the British Army during both World Wars. Early life and education Taylor was born on 2 October 1895 in Little Ilford, Essex, England. He was educated at the City of London School, an all-boys private school in London. Having received a scholarship, he studied chemistry at Brasenose College, Oxford. His university studies were interrupted by military service during the First World War. He returned to Oxford after the war, and graduated wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Borg
Barbara Elisabeth Borg (born 26 December 1960) is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Scuola Normale Superiore. She is known in particular for her work on Roman tombs, the language of classical art, and geoarchaeology. Career Borg studied Classical Archaeology, Philosophy and Geology at Ruhr-University Bochum from 1981 to 1985 and gained her PhD at Georg-August-University, Göttingen, in 1990 with the thesis ''Mumienporträts – Chronologie und kultureller Kontext''. Borg gained her Habilitation and ''venia legendi'' for Classical Archaeology at Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg in 1999 with the thesis ''Der Logos des Mythos – Allegorien und Personifikationen in der frühen griechischen Kunst''. From 1993 to 2004 Borg held various teaching and research positions in Germany including acting Head of Department and Director of the Collection of Antiquities at the Archaeological Institute of Ruprecht-Karls-University. In 2004 she moved to the University of Exeter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Black (historian)
Jeremy Black (born 30 October 1955) is an English historian, who was formerly a professor of history at the University of Exeter. He is a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of America and the West at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. Black is the author of over 180 books, principally but not exclusively on 18th-century British politics and international relations, and was described in 2004 as "the most prolific historical scholar of our age". He has published on military and political history, including ''Warfare in the Western World, 1882–1975'' (2001) and ''The World in the Twentieth Century'' (2002). Background Black studied at Queens' College, Cambridge, Queens' College Cambridge, St John's College, Oxford, St John's College Oxford, and Merton College, Oxford, Merton College Oxford before joining Durham University as a lecturer in 1980, where he earned his PhD and subsequently a professorship in 1994. His doctoral thesis was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Barange
Manuel Barange is a biologist. He is Assistant Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and Director of its Fisheries and Aquaculture Division. He is an honorary professor at the University of Exeter, UK and visiting professor at the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, China. Barange was the Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Director of Science at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory and the chair of the scientific committee of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. From 2000 to 2010 he was the Director of the International Project Office of GLOBEC Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics, one of the first ever large programmes working on climate change and marine systems. Dr Barange obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Biology (majoring in Zoology and Ecology) in 1986 from the University of Barcelona, Spain. He conducted his PhD in Marine Ecology at the Sea Fisheries Research Institute (SFRI) in Cape Town, South Africa, awarde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour is a British-Canadian security and military studies academic and a former martial arts champion. Academic career Dr Ashour obtained his PhD in Politics from McGill University (Canada). He was appointed Lecturer (Assistant Professor), subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Security Studies and Middle East Politics, at the Institute of Arab & Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter (2008-2018), before being appointed Professor of Security and Military Studies and the Founding Chair of the Critical Security Studies Programme at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Doha, Qatar). He is the author of ''How ISIS Fights: Military Tactics in Iraq, Syria, Libya and Egypt'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and ''The Deradicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements'' (London, New York: Routledge, 2009). Ashour has published about de-radicalization, counter-narratives, and transitions to democracy. Martial Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Adair (Leadership Guru)
John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership theorist and author of more than forty books (translated into eighteen languages) on business, military and other leadership. Life Adair was born in Luton and educated at St Paul's School before undertaking his national service as a second lieutenant in the Scots Guards from 1953 to 1955. Unusually, he served as adjutant of a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and was briefly in command of the garrison of Jerusalem in the front line. He also studied at Hull Nautical College (where he qualified as an Arctic trawler deckhand in 1955) and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1959. He later obtained a doctorate from King's College London in 1966 and a BLitt degree from Jesus College, Oxford in 1971. He became a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1966. After working as a senior lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst from 1961 to 1967, he later worked for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Acland
Sir Richard Thomas Dyke Acland, 15th Baronet (26 November 1906 – 24 November 1990) was one of the founding members of the British Common Wealth Party in 1942, having previously been a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP). He joined the Labour Party in 1945 and was later a Labour MP. He was one of the founders of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND). First years Richard Thomas Dyke Acland was born on 26 November 1906 at Broadclyst, Devon, the eldest son of Sir Francis Dyke Acland (1874–1939), 14th Baronet, a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) and of his first wife Eleanor Acland, née Cropper (1878–1933), a Liberal politician, suffragist, and novelist.Stenton and Lees ''Who's Who of British Members of Parliament'' vol. iv p. 1 He had two brothers and one sister; his brother Geoffrey Acland also became a Liberal politician. He was educated at Rugby School and at Balliol College, Oxford, before qualifying as a barrister (admitted at the Inner Temple in 1930). He b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Roberts (academic)
Professor Lisa O. Roberts is vice chancellor and President of the University of Exeter. She took over from professor Steve Smith on his retirement on 1 September 2020. Early life In 1990, Roberts graduated with a Bachelor of Science in medical microbiology and general microbiology from the University of Birmingham. Career After graduation, Roberts joined Procter and Gamble as a product development manager in the UK and Belgium. In 1995, she moved to the BBSRC Institute for Animal Health (now the Pirbright Institute) and the University of Kent, where she studied for a PhD in molecular virology. In 1998, she joined the University of Surrey academic staff, where she became lecturer, senior lecturer, and professor of virology. By 2012, she was executive dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Surrey, where she launched a new school of veterinary medicine In 2016, she moved to the University of Leeds. In 2019, it was announced that she would succeed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Smith (academic)
Sir Steven Murray Smith, FAcSS, FRSA, FLSW (born 4 February 1952) is an English international relations theorist and long serving university leader. He is the former Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter and Professor of International Studies. He was appointed as the UK Government International Education Champion in June 2020, and reappointed by the new government in August 2024. He was appointed as the UK Prime Minister's Special Representative to Saudi Arabia for Education in October 2020 and reappointed as the UK Government Special Representative to Saudi Arabia for Education in December 2024. Early life Smith was born on 4 February 1952 in Norwich, England. He attended the City of Norwich School, then a grammar school, on Eaton Road, Norwich. His parents were from working class backgrounds. At a parents' evening, his form master told his parents about their son that "people like you don't go to university". The school afterwards suggested finding a low-skilled job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Holland
Sir Geoffrey Holland, KCB (9 May 1938 – 20 April 2017) was an English career civil servant who became Vice-Chancellor of the University of Exeter from 1994 to 2002, when he was succeeded by Professor Steve Smith. Holland Hall, a large student hall of residence which opened in 2004 on the Exeter campus is named after him. Early life Holland was born on 9 May 1938 to Frank Holland CBE and his wife, Elsie Freda Holland. His father was a civil servant for London County Council. Both parents came from the Potteries in north Staffordshire. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood on a scholarship and spent two years in the Royal Tank Regiment for National Service, becoming a Second Lieutenant. He received a first class BA honours degree in Modern Languages from St John's College, Oxford. Career He joined the Ministry of Labour in 1961, working as a civil servant until the 1990s in the Department of Employment, becoming the Permanent Secretary at the Department ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Harrison (chemist)
Sir David Harrison FRSCM (3 May 1930 – 27 March 2023) was a British chemical engineer and academic. He was vice chancellor, vice-chancellor of the Keele University, University of Keele from 1979 to 1984, Vice-Chancellors of the University of Exeter, vice-chancellor of the University of Exeter from 1984 to 1994, Master (college), master of Selwyn College, Cambridge, from 1994 to 2000, and pro-vice chancellor of the University of Cambridge in 1997. Harrison was educated at City of Sunderland College, Bede School, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, Sunderland, Clacton County High School and Selwyn College, Cambridge, reading natural sciences (chemistry), before receiving a PhD in physical chemistry. He joined the newly formed Chemical Engineering Department doing extensive research into Fluidisation which resulted in three books, all written with his close friend Prof John Davidson. He taught at Cambridge University until 1979, becoming a fellow of Selwyn in 1957 and its Senior Tutor. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
