Honorary Graduates 2008

Claire Bertschinger - 2008
Claire Bertschinger, a trained nurse who graduated with an MSc in Medical Anthropology from Brunel in 1997, has spent much of her life and work helping and drawing attention to the poor in Africa. Working as an International Red Cross nurse ... read full details

Janet Thornton - 2008
Professor Janet Thornton CBE was born in 1949 and is the Director of the European Bioinformatics Institute on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus at Hinxton, near Cambridge, a post she has held since October 2001. She is one of the world's ... read full details

John Michael Sheasby - 2008
John Michael Sheasby - known as Michael - was born in London in May 1936 and grew up in the Thames Valley. He was educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College before training for five years with Arthur Young & Co ... read full details

Michael John Howard Sterling - 2008
An electrical engineer by profession, Michael Sterling was Vice-Chancellor of Brunel University from 1990 to 2001. Michael was born in 1946 at Paddock Wood, Kent. He was educated at Denmead School and subsequently at Hampton Grammar School. He began his career as an ... read full details

Sir Roger Bannister - 2008
Sir Roger Bannister, CBE, was born in Harrow in 1929 and is best known as the first man to run the mile in less than four minutes. Roger Bannister was educated at the City of Bath Boys' School, University College School ... read full details

Steven Robert Hodkinson - 2008
Born in Sheffield, Steve Hodkinson attended Sheffield City Grammar School and then Manchester University to read Modern History, Economics and Politics. Complete with degree and PGCE, he began teaching at Wilbraham High School, Manchester, in 1969 where he taught economics, coached ... read full details