Honorary Graduates 2010
Anthony William Balkwill - 2010
Tony Balkwill is an Advanced Principal Systems Engineer with 3M, the global technology giant. Tony started work with 3M in 1980 and has held various engineering positions, becoming Principal Systems Engineer in 1995 and Advanced Principal Systems Engineer - his present role ... read full details
Baroness Warwick of Undercliffe - 2010
Diana Warwick was Chief Executive at Universities UK, a post she held for 13 years until her retirement in August 2009.
Diana read Sociology at Bedford College (University of London) before working for the Institute for Race Relations and the National Union ... read full details
Clifford Joseph Price (Goldie) - 2010
Clifford Price, better known as Goldie, has a career that spans a range of art forms from electronic music, visual art and film. As a musician he is known particularly for his work in the jungle and drum and bass ... read full details
David Thomas Delpy - 2010
Professor David Delpy is Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.
Following secondary education in Newcastle, Dave Delpy studied at Brunel between 1966 and 1970, obtaining a first class honours degree in Applied Physics. Following a two year period ... read full details
Diana Mary Duckworth Rimmer - 2010
Diana Rimmer studied at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School between 1960 and 1965.
After qualification, she was appointed Assistant Lecturer in the Department of Clinical Microbiology and practised there until 1973. She was then appointed Consultant Microbiologist at the Hillingdon Hospital NHS Trust, ... read full details
Geoffrey Ronald Robertson QC - 2010
Geoffrey Robertson QC is founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, the largest group of barristers engaged in human rights work in the UK and abroad. He is a 'distinguished jurist' member of the United Nations Justice Council, having served ... read full details
Helen Patricia Sharman OBE - 2010
Helen Sharman was born in Sheffield in 1963. After studying at Jordanthorpe Comprehensive School, she obtained a BSc in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield in 1984.
She joined the General Electric Company (GEC) in Hammersmith in 1984, working on the research and ... read full details
Michael Nyman - 2010
Michael Nyman is one of Britain's most innovative and celebrated composers. His work encompasses operas and string quartets, film soundtracks and orchestral concertos.
Michael first came to prominence in the late 1960s when, still in his mid-20s, he invented ... read full details
Sir Peter Blake CBE - 2010
Peter Blake, the renowned pop artist, was born in Dartford, Kent, in 1932. He studied at the Royal College of Art in the 1950s and held his first solo exhibition in 1960. The Young Contemporaries exhibition of 1961 showed his work alongside emerging ... read full details
Steve Jackson - 2010
Steve Jackson is a games entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the games industry, particularly in the worlds of role-playing and video games.
In the mid-1970s, he was the cofounder, with Ian Livingstone, of Games Workshop, ... read full details
Steven Berkoff - 2010
Actor, playwright, author and director Steven Berkoff was born in Stepney in 1937. He studied drama and mime in London and Paris and in 1968 formed the London Theatre Group. Among the many adaptations he has created and directed for the stage ... read full details
The Rt Hon The Lord Steel of Aikwood KT KBE DL - 2010
David Steel was educated both in Scotland and Kenya, obtaining MA and LLB degrees from the University of Edinburgh in the early 1960s.
After leaving University in 1962, he became Assistant Secretary of the Scottish Liberal Party, before joining the BBC ... read full details
