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King's College, London. Readers promoted to chairs: Robert Blackburn, constitutional law; Clive Bush, American literature; Gareth Jones, cell biology; Giovanni Mann, vascular physiology; Yuri Safarov, mathematics. The following senior lecturers have been promoted to professorships: Christopher Dandeker, military sociology; Peter Williams, environmental science.

Aston 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ

Promoted to professorships: David Bennett, senior lecturer and head of the business school's technology and innovation research centre; Rudiger Gorner, reader in languages and European studies; John Horner, reader and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; Roger Kettle, dean of the faculty of engineering and applied science and head of the civil and mechanical engineering division.

51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Strathclyde

Mono Chakrabarti, former reader in the department of social work and Dave Mearns, reader and director of the counselling unit have been appointed professor.

51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of Warwick

Appointed professors: Christopher Clark, former professor of history at the 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ of York; Jeremy Dale, former senior lecturer in primary care and honorary consultant at King's College school of medicine and dentistry; Karen Legge, former professor of organisational behaviour at Lancaster 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ.

51¹ú²úÊÓƵ College, London

Ronald Dworkin, professor at Oxford 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ becomes Quain professor of jurisprudence; Ian Kennedy, King's College London has been appointed to the chair in health law, ethics and policy.