Sam Leinster , director of medical studies and professor of surgery at the University of Liverpool, is inaugural dean of the new medical school at the University of East Anglia .

Robert Fraser has been appointed professor of agricultural economics at Wye College . He was previously professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of Western Australia.

David McFarland , previously tutor of psychology at Balliol College, Oxford, has been appointed professor of biological robotics at the University of the West of England .

Exeter University has appointed Tim Naylor , from Keele University, as professor of astrophysics. Calum Paton , professor of health policy at Keele, is to chair the North Staffordshire Hospital Trust board.

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Composers Philip Cashian and Brian Lock have been appointed lecturers in composition at Royal Holloway, University of London .

Sir Charles Mackerras is to be president of Trinity College of Music .

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Lynn Williams , a graduate of the University of Wales , has been appointed as its next secretary general, the university's chief administrative officer.