Major achievements 2005-2010

• 114 undergraduate students gained First Class Honours.


• 68 postgraduate students gained doctorates (DPhil).


• 11 new graduate scholarships have been created; Undergraduate scholarships and exhibition prizes have been raised in value; Prizes for academic performance and improvement have been introduced.


• Students have won major academic prizes and other awards, e.g. The Sir Roger Newdigate Prize in poetry, and the Vice-Chancellor’s Civic Award for community service.


• Since 2005, 18 Professorial and Tutorial Fellows have been appointed.


• The distinction of our Fellows has been recognised, e.g. Professor Griffiths was made a Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor Macdonald was made a CBE.


• Fellows and postgraduate students have completed major research projects in fields including medicine, atmospheric physics, wildlife conservation, financial modelling, literature, politics, and music.


• The Pipe Partridge building was completed in early 2010, with 66 student rooms, theatre, seminar, dining, and common rooms.


• A total of 222 student rooms have been refurbished.


• The new Law Library was completed in 2006.


• Over the last five years we have raised £10m in philanthropic giving.


• We have sustained the high level of approximately £800k p.a. in conference and event income.

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  My LMH education was a life changing experience, enabling me to have a career which I could never have achieved without it.

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