University of Kent

HONORARY DEGREES

Membership:

Chair: Vice-Chancellor (ex officio), Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow

Members: Chancellor (ex officio), Sir Robert Worcester
Chair of the Council (ex officio), John Simmonds (to 31.7.2014)
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (ex officio), David Nightingale
Public Orator (ex officio) one of:
Dr Louise Naylor (to 31.7.2012)
Professor Simon Thompson (to 31.7.2012)
Professor Julia Twigg (to 31.7.2012)
Professor Peter Brown (to 31.7.2013)
Dr Marion O’Connor (to 31.7.2013)
Dr Farzin Deravi (to 31.7.2013)
Dr Peter Nicholls (to 31.7.2013)
Professor Tim Luckhurst (to 31.7.2012)
Professor David Shemmings (to 31.7.2012)
Professor Paul Phillips (to 31.7.2012)
Three members of Council:
Eliot Forster (to 31.7.2013)
Tony Quigley (to 31.7.2013)
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Four members appointed by Senate:
Professor Mark Burchell (to 31.7.2013)
Professor Elizabeth Cowie (to 31.7.2013)
Professor Diane Houston (to 31.7.2013)
Professor Keith Mander (to 31.7.2013)
President of the Students’ Union (ex  officio), Tom Ritchie.

Secretary: Karen Goffin, Secretary of the Council (K.R.Goffin@kent.ac.uk).

Quorum:  one third of total actual membership with a lay majority.  The Committee has 5 lay and 8 University members making a total of 13 so Quorum = 5 (with at least 3 lay members).  (Approved by Council in December 2005)

Frequency of meetings: 1-2 p.a.

Terms of Reference:

To consider proposals for the conferment of honorary degrees and make recommendations for such awards to Senate and Council.  (Ordinance II(ii).)