II THE MASTER AND F E L L O W S The Master received the President’s Medal of the British Academy, and an Honorary Doctorate from St Andrews University. In November 2013 he delivered the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh, on the theme ‘Making representations: religious faith and the habits of language’. In April 2014 he gave the Tanner Lectures in Boston USA. He was admitted as Chancellor of the University of South Wales on 14 April. In May he was given an Honorary Doctorate by Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands. Professor Boyle has now retired from his University Chair as well as from the Governing Body. His colleagues and former students presented him with a Festchrift, The Present Word: Culture, Society and the Site of Literature, published by Legenda. Professor Duffy received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies in Toronto in October 2013. He was made an Honorary Canon of Ely Cathedral on 13 May 2014. He retired from his Official Fellowship in September 2014 and is now an Emeritus Fellow. Sir Derek Oulton, as a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath since 1989, has been installed in the Chapel of the Order in Westminster Abbey by the Prince of Wales as Great Master of the Order, a stall having become vacant. His banner, crest and stall-plate are now displayed in the Chapel of the Order. Dr Burchell became the Director of Q-Step (a centre which includes Linguistics, Education, Politics, Social Anthropology, Archaeology, Land Economy, and Sociology and which aims for a step increase on the number of social science graduates), for 40% of his time, in April 2014. Dr Stoddart has been appointed Deputy Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research for three years from October 2014. He has edited (with Dr C N Popa) Fingerprinting the Iron Age: Approaches to identity in the European Iron Age: Integrating South-Eastern Europe into the debate (Oxbow, 2014). Professor Babinsky has taken over as Deputy Head of the Engineering Department with specific responsibility for graduate education. Dr Jones had been promoted to a Readership in English Legal History. Dr O’Keefe has been appointed to the Chair of Public International Law at University College London (UCL). He left at the end of August 2014 after fourteen years as Fellow and College Lecturer in Law. He is succeeded as Dean by Dr Jones. Dr Hadida has been promoted to a Senior Lectureship in Management Studies. Professor Cooper retired from her Chair and Professorial Fellowship at the end of the academical year and is now a Life Fellow. Mr Hobday has been awarded a distinction for the research degree of MA by the University of Nottingham. Dr Bennison was elected a fellow of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) for her academic contributions to Moroccan Studies.
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