No 6796
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Vol clvi No 1
pp. 1–18
The procedure for the Academic Career Pathways scheme provides for applicants to have the right to lodge an appeal against the decision of the Vice-Chancellor’s Committee not to promote.
In accordance with the practice that Committee membership for the Academic Career Pathways exercise be published, the members of the Appeals Committee for the 1 October 2025 exercise agreed by the General Board are as follows:
Professor
Catherine Barnard (Chair)
Professor Margaret Ashcroft
Professor Mark
Gross
Professor Mateja Jamnik
Professor Catherine Pickstock
Secretary: Seema Haria
Agreement has been reached on the salary arrangements for clinical academic staff with effect from 1 April 2025. Following a recent meeting of the Board of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association, the Clinical Academic Staff Salaries Committee has agreed to translate the award of the Doctors’ and Dentists’ Review Body into the salaries of clinical academic staff.
In accordance with the principle that the remuneration of clinical academic staff in Cambridge should be broadly comparable with that of equivalent staff in other UK medical schools, the General Board has agreed to approve revised stipends and scales of stipends for clinical appointments in Cambridge.
Salaries for medical and dental consultants have been increased by 4.0% to basic pay, backdated to 1 April 2025.
Salaries for doctors and dentists in training have been increased by 4.0% plus an additional consolidated payment of £750 added to basic pay, with effect from 1 April 2025.
The figures currently shown in Schedule II of the Ordinance for Stipends (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 686) are replaced with effect from 1 April 2025.
For consultants, under the heading for ‘New (2003) Consultant contract’, the scale has been replaced with the following:
With effect from 1 April 2025: £109,725, £116,182, £119,490, £131,058, £145,478.
For those below the level of consultant, the updated figures are as follows:
For
Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS ‘new’ 2016 pay system:
Clinical
Lecturer £38,831 by five nodal points to £73,992
For
Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS Specialist Registrar scales (pre-2009):
Clinical Lecturer £45,943 by eleven increments to £77,196
University
Associate Professor (Grade 10)/Professor (Grade 11) (Senior Lecturer/Reader) scale £71,694
by six increments to £100,084
For
Clinical Lecturers on the equivalent of the NHS Specialty Registrar scales (post-2009):
Clinical Lecturer £46,675 by eleven increments to £80,081
University
Associate Professor (Grade 10)/Professor (Grade 11) (Senior Lecturer/Reader) scale £71,694
by six increments to £100,084
In its Report of 11 June 2025 on the outcomes of the Academic Career Pathways (Research and Teaching) and (Teaching and Scholarship) 2025 exercises (Reporter, 6788, 2024–25 p. 636), the General Board recommendations included the following, all with effect from 1 October 2025:
•The establishment of 27 Professorships (Grade 12)
•The establishment of 1 Clinical Professorship
•The establishment of 35 Professorships (Grade 11)
•The appointment of 1 individual with curatorial, conservation and associated responsibilities to a Grade 10 office.
•The establishment of 2 Clinical Professorships
•The establishment of 4 Professorships (Grade 11).
The recommendations of the Report were approved by Grace 3 of 30 July 2025. The following list of appointments includes the titles that have been agreed.
Professor Emily Kwok Mei So, appointed Professor of Architectural Engineering
Professor Gavin Robert Alexander, appointed Professor of Renaissance Literature
Professor Rory George Robert Naismith, CC, appointed Professor of Early Medieval English History
Professor Emma Gilby, SID, appointed Professor of Early Modern French Literature and Thought
Professor Rosana Collepardo Guevara, CL, appointed Professor of Computational and Molecular Biophysics
Professor Henrik Ekhard Pierre Salje, W, appointed Professor of Disease Ecology
Professor Caroline Louise Trotter, HH, appointed Professor of Global Health
Professor Yorgo Evgenios Modis, TH, appointed Professor of Virology and Immunology
Professor Jo-Anne Margaret Dillabough, appointed Professor of Sociology of Education
Professor Michelle Renee Ellefson, CAI, appointed Professor of Cognitive Science
Professor Mathieu Candea, K, appointed Professor of Social Anthropology
Professor Darin Thompson Weinberg, K, appointed Professor of the Sociology of Medical Thought
Professor Matthias Felix Heinz Steffek, N, appointed Professor of Law
Professor Shaun Thomas Larcom, SE, appointed Professor of Law, Economics and Institutions
Professor Neil Stuart Davies, CHU, appointed Professor of Sedimentary Geology
Professor Christopher Guy Sandbrook, DAR, appointed Professor of Conservation and Society
Professor Ian Craig Willis, CTH, appointed Professor of Glaciology
Professor Enrico Pajer, appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics
Professor Po-Ling Jog Loh, JN, appointed Professor of Statistics
Professor Bartomeu Monserrat Sánchez, R, appointed Professor of Materials Physics
Dr Eloy De Lera Acedo , SE, appointed Professor of Radio Astronomy
Professor Christina Jane Potter, N, appointed Professor of High Energy Physics
Dr Emily Fleur Shuckburgh, DAR, appointed Professor of Environmental Data Science
Professor Andreas Vlachos, F, appointed Professor of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning
Professor Alexandra Brintrup, DAR, appointed Professor of Digital Manufacturing
Professor José Miguel Hernández Lobato, W, appointed Professor of Machine Learning
Professor Ramji Venkataramanan, TH, appointed Professor of Information Engineering
Dr Joanne Louise Jones, appointed Clinical Professor of Translational Neuroimmunology
Dr Ronita Bardhan, SE, appointed Professor of Sustainable Built Environment and Health
Dr Maximilian Jan Sternberg, PEM, appointed Professor of History and Theory of Architecture
Dr Frank Edwin Salmon, JN, appointed Professor of the History of Classical Architecture
Dr Amy Jessica Tobin, N, appointed Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art
Dr John Harold Nilsson Williamson-Wright, DAR, appointed Fuji Bank Professor of Japanese Politics and the International Relations of East Asia
Dr Rebecca Lämmle, PEM, appointed Professor of Classics (Greek Literature)
Dr Nicholas Andrew Shipley Zair, PET, appointed Professor of the Italic Languages
Dr Anna Aries Berman, CL, appointed Professor of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature and Culture
Dr Rebecca Zohar Reich, JE, appointed Professor of Russian Literature and Culture
Dr Rory Robert O’Bryen, K, appointed Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture
Dr Kate Susan Baker, N, appointed Professor of Infectious Disease
Dr Benjamin John Steventon, appointed Professor of Developmental Biology
Dr Aikaterini Georgia Artavanis-Tsakonas, appointed Professor of Parasite Biology
Mr Brian James Ferguson, appointed Professor of Viral Immunity
Dr Matthew Thomas Harper, JE, appointed Professor of Cell Pharmacology
Dr Katherine Hughes, G, appointed Professor of Veterinary Anatomic Pathology
Dr Camilla Laxmi Madalina Nord, CHR, appointed Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dr Kai Liu, SE, appointed Professor of Economics
Dr Ioana Sonia Ilie, HH, appointed Professor of Education
Dr Christopher Daniel Briggs, SE, appointed Professor of Medieval British Economic and Social History
Dr Enrico Ryunosuke Crema, appointed Professor of Quantitative and Comparative Archaeology
Dr Ella Elizabeth McPherson, Q, appointed Professor of the Sociology of Media and Technology
Dr Sinéad Cecilia Agnew, N, appointed Catherine Seville Professor of Private Law
Dr Markus Wilhelm Gehring, HH, appointed Professor of European and International Law
Dr Kyle Hartley Spencer, F, appointed Professor of Neurocriminology
Dr Marta Halina, SE, appointed Professor of Philosophy of Science
Dr Li Wan , CAI, appointed Professor of Planning
Dr Alexander George Liu, G, appointed Professor of Palaeobiology
Dr Owen Michael Weller, SID, appointed Professor of Metamorphic Petrology
Dr Ronojoy Adhikari, K, appointed Professor of Statistical Mechanics and Soft Matter Physics
Dr Julian David Raja Sahasrabudhe, appointed Professor of Mathematics
Dr Alexander James William Thom, PET, appointed Professor of Theoretical Chemistry
Ms Kan Jenny Chu, appointed Professor of Financial Accounting
Dr Ian James Wassell, CHU, appointed Professor of Wireless Communication
Dr Nicholas Robert Atkins, K, appointed Professor of Aerothermal Engineering
Dr Joshua Fordor Kellogg Nall, CHU, appointed Curator and Director of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
Dr Catherine Elizabeth Hook, HO, appointed Clinical Professor of Pathology Education
Dr Mark Stephen Lillicrap, R, appointed Clinical Professor of Medical Education Practice
Dr Matthew David Castle, PEM, appointed Teaching Professor of Mathematical Biology and Bioinformatics
Dr James Robert Fergusson, appointed Teaching Professor of Cosmology and Data Intensive Science
Dr Gavin Miles James Davies, HO, appointed Teaching Professor of Civil and Construction Engineering
Dr Lydia Kate Hamlett, MUR, appointed Teaching Professor of Early Modern Visual Culture
The General Board has removed a provision from General Board Regulations which suggests that there is liability for University Composition Fees for candidates for the Ph.D., M.Sc. or M.Litt. Degree for exempted terms. This provision appears to contradict Regulation 3(a) of the Ordinance for University Composition Fees (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 154), which states that students undertaking research degrees, including the Ph.D., M.Sc. and M.Litt., pay fees ‘for each term up to and including the term in which they are permitted to submit a thesis’.
The last sentence of Regulation 1(a) of the General Board Regulations for the above degrees (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 488) has been amended to read as follows:
There is no University Composition Fee payable for terms exempted under this regulation.
1This Notice was published as an Advance Notice on the Reporter website in August 2025 and is reproduced here in accordance with Regulation 2 of the Ordinance for the Cambridge University Reporter (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 109).
The General Board, on the recommendation of the Board of Land Economy, has approved changes to the membership to create a smaller, more efficient Board.
Regulations 1–3 of the General Board Regulations for the Board (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 626) have been revised to read as follows:
1. The Board of Land Economy shall consist of:
(a)the Head of the Department of Land Economy;
(b)two members of the Department with responsibility for research and teaching respectively;
(c)six persons elected from among their own number by the University officers in the Department of Land Economy and those members of the Regent House whose contribution to the teaching and research programme of the Department is such that they have been recognised by the Board;
(d)the Chair of the Degree Committee for the Department;
(e)one person appointed by the General Board;
(f)not more than two persons co-opted by the Board;
(g)three persons elected in accordance with Regulation 3.
2. The election of members in class (c) shall be held in the Michaelmas Term of every year; the procedure for such an election shall be that prescribed in the Single Transferable Vote Regulations, except that the returning officer shall be the Chair of the Board or in the Chair’s absence a deputy appointed by the Chair subject to the approval of the General Board. Members in class (c) shall serve for two years from 1 January following their election. Members in class (e) shall serve for two years from 1 January following their appointment. Co-opted members in class (f) shall serve until 31 December of the year in which they are co-opted or of the following year as the Board shall determine at the time of their co-optation.
3. The provisions for the election of members of Faculty Boards in class (g) and for the period for which such members shall serve, which are contained in the regulations for the constitution of the Faculty Boards and for the Classes of Faculty Board Membership, Elections, and Periods of Office, and in the rules made under those regulations, shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the election and period of membership of members of the Board in class (g).
1This Notice was published as an Advance Notice on the Reporter website in August 2025 and is reproduced here in accordance with Regulation 2 of the Ordinance for the Cambridge University Reporter (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 109).
The General Board has agreed to revise the General Board Regulations for the Director of Education in the Faculty of Biology (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 612) to acknowledge the existence of two offices, the Director of Education (Biological Sciences) and the Director of Education (Medical and Veterinary Sciences Triposes).
The title of the Regulations has been amended to ‘Directors of Education’, Regulations 1 and 2 amended to read as follows, and references to the Director in Regulations 3 and 4 have been pluralised.
1. There shall be the University offices of Director of Education (Biological Sciences) and Director of Education (Medical and Veterinary Sciences Triposes) in the Faculty of Biology. Appointments and reappointments to the office shall be made by an Appointments Committee consisting of the following persons:
(a)the Vice-Chancellor (or a duly appointed deputy) as Chair;
(b)the Regius Professor of Physic;
(c)the Chair of the Faculty Board of Biology;
(d)the Head of the Council of the School of the Biological Sciences;
(e)one person appointed by the General Board.
2. The Directorships shall normally be held concurrently with a University office.
1This Notice was published as an Advance Notice on the Reporter website in August 2025 and is reproduced here in accordance with Regulation 2 of the Ordinance for the Cambridge University Reporter (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 109).
In accordance with the regulations for the title of Honorary Professor (Statutes and Ordinances, p. 674), and on the recommendation of the Faculty Boards concerned, the General Board have conferred on the persons named the following titles:
Honorary
Professor of African Evolutionary Ecology:
Professor Claire Spottiswoode, Pola
Pasvolsky Chair in Conservation Biology, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology,
University of Cape Town, Co-Director, Max Planck–University of Cape Town Centre for
Behaviour and Coevolution, in the School of the Biological Sciences.
Honorary
Professor of Structural and Molecular Biology:
Professor Lori Passmore, Joint
Head of the Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, in the School
of Clinical Medicine.
Honorary
Professor of Experimental Medicine:
Professor John Bradley, in the School of
Clinical Medicine.
Honorary
Professor of Experimental Cardiology:
Professor Andrew Grace, in the School of
the Biological Sciences.
Honorary
Professor of Evolutionary Malacology:
Professor Elizabeth Harper, in the School
of the Physical Sciences.
Honorary
Professor of Historical Geography and Intellectual History:
Professor Robert
Mayhew, in the School of the Physical Sciences.
Honorary
Professor of Translational Gastroenterology:
Professor Miles Parkes, in the
School of Clinical Medicine.
Honorary
Professor of History of Science:
Sachiko Kusukawa, in the School of the
Humanities and Social Sciences.