scholarly journals In Memoriam: Professor George Thompson, OBE, DSc, FREng (1946–2020)

CORROSION ◽  
10.5006/3856 ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Scamans ◽  
Peter Skeldon ◽  
Xiaorong Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Light Metal ◽  
Metal Corrosion ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Councils ◽  
University Of Manchester

It is with deep sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and colleague, Professor George Edward Thompson, passed away after a long illness on the December 9, 2020. George was a towering presence in the light metal corrosion and protection field over his long career almost entirely based at UMIST and then at the University of Manchester. His exceptional talents were widely recognized throughout the worldwide corrosion community. His tireless commitment over more than 40 years was key to the success of the UMIST Corrosion and Protection Centre, and underpinned its reputation for excellence, both in the United Kingdom and internationally. The major financial support he gained from the U.K. research councils, the European Union, and industry was critical to its longevity. Of all his achievements, perhaps his greatest, was the opportunity he gave to the many MSc and PhD students and postdoctoral workers, to study with him at the Centre, and afterwards to establish themselves in careers in academia, industry, and elsewhere. He was generous with his time and support. There are many cherished memories that will remain forever in the hearts of everyone he worked with and these are reflected in the many deeply moving messages of condolence received by his family.

Notes on the ECHR and the Disunited Kingdom ‘After’ Brexit – In memoriam Scott Crosby

2020 ◽  
pp. 203228442097693
Author(s):  
Gavin Robinson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Convention ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Time Record ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
European Criminal Law ◽  
The Eu

When the idea of this special edition occurred to the team behind the New Journal of European Criminal Law, my first thought was to go back through all of Scott Crosby’s contributions in print as editor-in-chief and see whether a mini-retrospective on the themes and views therein would be worthy of inclusion here – by Scott’s own standards. These notes focus on what gradually became the single biggest concern expressed in Scott’s editorials: the perilous position of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in a post-Brexit UK – in concreto, the prospect of what he labelled ‘Brexit plus’: a British exit from the ECHR system. I begin with Scott’s views on the European Union (EU) Referendum and the Brexit process. Next comes the great uncertainty currently surrounding the future of Convention rights in the United Kingdom, set against the emphasis placed by the editorials on the instrumental role of the ECHR in fostering peace across the whole of Europe, within and beyond the territory of the EU. In the event that Brexit plus should materialise, writing in the wake of polls showing all-time record support in Scotland for secession from the United Kingdom I close by asking whether Scotland might be able to ‘leave a light on for Strasbourg’.

Max Gluckman

Anthropology ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Marx
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Industrial Organizations ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Social Anthropologist ◽  
Manchester School ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester

Max (Herman) Gluckman (b. 1911–d. 1975) was a South African who became a pathbreaking British social anthropologist. In his studies of South and Central African societies he realized how deeply the colonial regimes and the global economy affected every aspect of peoples’ lives. As director of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia and later as professor of social anthropology at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, he made long-term plans to study this modernity in urbanization, industrialization, and labor migration. While seeking to implement the research programs according to plan, he never prevented his colleagues and students from following their own inclinations and ideas. In the 1950s and 1960s the Manchester department assimilated and contributed to a constant flow of innovative ideas, such as the social field, social networks, the extended case study, and the analysis of social situations. It also engaged in several new areas and fields of study, such as rural and urban communities and industrial organizations in England and Wales, and the adaptation of new immigrants to various social formations in Israel. The lively and sometimes even aggressive propagation of the new ideas of the Manchester network induced anthropologists in other departments to refer, jokingly at first, to a Manchester School of Anthropology. Discussions about whether such a school ever existed continue to this day.

I.—Eminent Living Geologists

1890 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Archibald Geikie
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Geological Survey ◽  
Director General ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Doctor Archibald Geikie was born in Edinburgh in 1835. He was educated at the Royal High School—the most famous of the many celebrated scholastic institutions of the “Modern Athens,” and at Edinburgh University. He became an Assistant on the Geological Survey of Scotland in 1855, and in 1867, when that branch of the Survey was made a separate establishment, he was appointed Director. A few years later—in 1871—he was elected to fill the Murchison Professorship of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Edinburgh, when the chair for these subjects was founded by Sir Roderick Murchison and the Crown in that year. Subsequently he resigned these appointments, when at the beginning of 1881 he was appointed to succeed Sir Andrew C. Ramsay, as Director-General of the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, and Director of the Museum of Practical Geology in Jermyn Street.

Soil and the City

Earth Matters ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Bardgett
Keyword(s):  
Human Population ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Railway Line ◽  
The Many ◽  
Playing Fields ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
The City

I have spent most of my living and working life in the countryside, surrounded by open fields, woodlands and hills, and in close contact with the soil. I recently changed my job and moved to the University of Manchester, which is in the centre of one of the largest cities in England. Because of this move my contact with soil is much less; in fact, as I walk each morning to my office, there is hardly a handful of soil to be seen. But is this really true of the whole city? Concrete, asphalt, and bricks certainly seal much of the ground in Manchester, as in most cities and towns. But soil is in abundance: it lies beneath the many small gardens, flower beds, road and railway verges, parks, sports grounds, school playing fields, and allotments of the city. In fact, it has been estimated that almost a quarter of the land in English cities is covered by gardens, and in the United States, lawns cover three times as much area as does corn. As I write, I am on a train leaving central London from Waterloo Station, and despite the overwhelming dominance of concrete and bricks, I can see scattered around many small gardens, trees, flowerpots and window boxes, overgrown verges on the railway line, small parks and playing fields for children, football pitches, grassy plots and flower beds alongside roadways and pavements, and small green spaces with growing shrubs outside office blocks and apartments. The city is surprisingly green and beneath this green is soil. Throughout the world, more and more people are moving to cities: in 1800 only 2 per cent of the world’s population was urbanized, whereas now more than half of the global human population live in towns and cities, and this number grows by about 180,000 people every day. This expansion has been especially rapid in recent years.

Barriers to Gender Equality in Career Advancement and Leadership

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S54-S54 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Wasserman
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Research Team ◽  
Career Advancement ◽  
Constant Flow ◽  
Private Interests ◽  
Critical Feedback ◽  
Heavy Workload ◽  
Competing Interest ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University

Life as a researcher includes a large amount of competition and a heavy workload. Professor's tasks comprise, besides their own research, to lead your research team, to have the responsibility for higher education, expertise in diverse contexts, review of scientific articles, to seek financial support, to work with national and international committees, to serve in administrative posts at the university and in international associations, to write articles, books and book chapters, to attend meetings and conferences, and to address the many other tasks that may arise throughout one's career. This makes one dependent on skillful co-workers, which should not be taken for granted. Given the constant flow of incoming requests, one has to think and choose before agreeing to commit to a task at hand, in order to not set aside your own research. This demands a high capability to prioritize. The choice of a life partner who can share both professional and private interests, a partner who understands, encourages and supports, while at the same time gives the necessary critical feedback, is a treasure. Freud said “love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness”, but work must be pleasurable thus try to combine work, love, and play.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.

Islam in the European Union

2002 ◽  
Vol 6 (30) ◽  
pp. 239-240
Author(s):  
Mark Hill
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Ecclesiastical Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
State Research ◽  
The University

The European Consortium for Church and State Research was established in 1989 and has its headquarters at the Istitutio di Diritto Internazionale of the University of Milan. Professor David McClean. who since its inception has occupied the place reserved for the United Kingdom, set out the background to the formation of the Consortium in his paper, European perspectives on Ecclesiastical Law and Religious Education (1990) 2 Ecc LJ 23–27. Since then the Consortium has met annually and considered a broad range of subjects concerning relations between states and relirious denominations in Europe from a historical, political and, particularly, juridical point of view. Its web page may be viewed at www.uni-trier.de/eurocon/. Professor Norman Doe was elected to the Consortium two years ago. having been involved in its affairs for some years. I was invited to attend the sessions in Reggio Calabria (1998), in Strasbourg (1999) and. most recently, in Vienna last November.

TP3-11 Sir geoffrey jefferson, a father of the SBNS, a remarkable life

2019 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. e21.1-e21
Author(s):  
T Hope
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Meeting ◽  
Royal Infirmary ◽  
University Of Oxford ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Neurosurgical Society ◽  
Neurological Surgery ◽  
The University ◽  
University Of Manchester ◽  
Neurological Surgeon ◽  
Society Today

ObjectivesThe foundation of a Society of Neurological Surgeons was Jefferson`s idea. How did this come about? The objective is to research this period of our history and its development.DesignA review of papers and articles held in the University of Manchester, The University of Oxford and abstracts from a biography of Jefferson by Peter Schurr, enables an historic presentation to the SBNS and the ABN.SubjectsIn 1926 Sir Geoffrey Jefferson was closely connected to the leading minds in British neurology and neurological surgery. His friendship and correspondence with Cushing was a major force in his drive for a specialist society. These players on the neurosurgical stage are the subjects of this presentation.MethodsAs in the design, the author will survey all available material including photography and handwritten manuscripts.ResultsOn the very next day after being appointed a consultant neurological surgeon at the Manchester Royal Infirmary, Jefferson arranged a meeting at the Athenaeum Club to consider the formation of our society. This was held on December the 2nd 1926 and the first formal scientific meeting was held on the 3rd at Queen Square!ConclusionsThe formation of this small society was crucial in presenting British neurosurgery as a specialty in its own right to medicine in the United Kingdom. No other neurosurgical society existed in Europe at this stage. Jefferson is indeed the father figure of our society today.

The Law & Politics of Brexit

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The People ◽  
Successful Experiment ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Eu

The decision by the people of the United Kingdom (UK) to vote in a referendum on 23 June 2016 to leave the European Union (EU) has produced shock-waves across Europe and the world. While the Treaty on European Union explicitly allows a Member State to withdraw from the Union, no country thus far had ever decided to secede from what is arguably the most successful experiment in regional integration in history. Brexit, therefore, calls into question consolidated assumptions on the finality of the EU, and simultaneously opens new challenges—not only in the institutional fabric of Europe, but also in the UK constitutional settlement, eg in Northern Ireland and Scotland. This book provides a first comprehensive analysis of the challenges posed by Brexit, their causes, and their consequences. By combining the contributions of lawyers, political scientists, and political economists from across Europe, the book seeks to shed light on the manifold and complicated effects that Brexit creates—in the UK, and its internal constitutional settlement, as well as in the EU, and its institutional regime. While many uncertainties still surround the process of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, so much is already on the table: this book thus avoids speculation and focuses instead on the many and difficult political, legal, and economic issues that Brexit exposed.

University Research Ethics Committees — A Summary of Research into Their Role, Remit and Conduct

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthea Tinker ◽  
Vera Coomber
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
National Study ◽  
Ethical Review ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Human Volunteers ◽  
Research On Human Subjects ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Councils

As society becomes more aware of the rights of individuals, ethical issues become of increasing importance. Many research funders, including the research councils, increasingly emphasise research governance and ethical review in their consideration of submitted proposals. Little is known, however, about what universities do over ethical scrutiny and in order to find out the authors undertook a national study of all universities in the United Kingdom. The focus of the study was on human volunteers for research outside the remit of the National Health Service. The key questions being: to what extent do universities undertake ethical scrutiny of research and, if so, how? The broad conclusion is that when this survey was carried out in the autumn of 2003, the majority of universities were aware of the need for the ethical scrutiny of research on human subjects although in many of those universities the scrutiny system was being developed at the time of completion of the questionnaire. In some cases practice appeared to lag behind awareness and whilst there were some very good examples there were also some which were below an ‘acceptable’ standard. Recommendations are made concerning structures, coverage and membership for systems of ethical scrutiny within the university sector.

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