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Inauguration of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

and Installation of the University’s Founding Chancellor

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Inauguration of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

and Installation of the University’s Founding Chancellor

5 July 2007

The Assembly Hall, Mound Place, Edinburgh

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Queen Margaret University has a history of achievement and progress extending for over a century. Since its establishment in 1875, it has been driven by the highest educational ideals and purposes. Over the years it has shown great agility in adapting to change to ensure it continues to meet the changing needs of society. Its long established position as a university-level institution has now been recognised with the award of full university title.

I would like to congratulate and thank the staff, students, former staff, graduates, partner organisations and many friends of the university that have helped Queen Margaret achieve university title.

Today is a celebration of all of the values Queen Margaret University stands for. A hundred and thirty-two years after its inception, it is still true to its original philosophy of improving the quality of life and serving the community.

I warmly welcome you to the inauguration of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and invite you to join us in this celebratory event.

Professor John Pitkeathly Percy CBE, LLD, CA, FRSA

Chair of the University Court

Today we mark the award of university title to Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.

Principal & Vice-Chancellor

The award of university title recognises the quality of our work and our standing; and, with our new campus, provides a superb platform for the next phase of our development.

In making our application for university title, we thought hard about our purposes as a university. We believe that Queen Margaret University will make a distinctive and invaluable contribution through:

• the excellence and relevance of our specialist expertise;

• our commitment to developing opportunities for participation in university education;

• our determination to engage with society beyond the academy for the public benefi t;

• our strategic orientation to the knowledge economy;

• our international activity, through our collaborations with partner universities in India and Singapore, the Middle East and Europe; and

• through development capacity-building.

We are proud to be Scotland’s newest university, soon to occupy the country’s most ingenious and sustainable campus; and proud to belong to a diverse university system which contributes so crucially to Scotland’s progress.

Professor Anthony CohenBA, MSc, PhD, HonDSc(Edin), FRSE

We are delighted to have achieved university title, following exhaustive processes of scrutiny and public consultation.


Phule Phule Dole Dole

Robert Burns’ ‘Ye Banks and Braes’ is a composition which has lasted the test of time and still remains hugely popular with young performers to this day.

The young Bengali poet, Rabindranath Tagore, visited Scotland in the late 1870s, and Burns’ lyrics made a great impression on him. The mystical folk music of the Borders reminded him of the Bengali people’s spiritual connection to their land, and its manifestation in their own folk music.

Tagore was deeply influenced by Western melodies and his songs remain a very important part of Bengali culture. ‘Ye Banks and Braes’ was used as the basis of ‘Phule Phule Dole Dole’, traditionally one of the first songs school-children learn in Bengal.

This piece of fusion music is performed by Queen Margaret University students, Sumi Halder and Jeni Paton. Sumi’s vocals are accompanied by Jeni on the fiddle and Rob MacKillop, Musician in Residence, on the keyboards.

Fiddle Music: Queen Margaret March and Jig

During the inauguration ceremony the Queen Margaret University Traditional Music Group will play ‘March: Queen Margaret College’ by Tom Anderson (1910–91), and “Jig: Queen Margaret University” by Rob MacKillop, Musician in Residence. The group is made up of staff and students.

The Student Voice

Stuart Brunton, a final year film and media studies student at Queen Margaret University, produced the short film ‘The Student Voice’ which is premiered at today’s inauguration ceremony.

Queen Margaret University’s Choir

The Queen Margaret University Choir, which is composed of students and staff, will sing a four-part arrangement of ‘Fields of Gold’ written by G.M Sumner (Sting). The arranger for this composition was Roger Emerson. The Choirmaster is James Robertson.

Performances during the Ceremony

When the piper plays, the assembly is requested to stand.

Academic Procession

Welcome from the Chair of Court of the University, Professor John Pitkeathly Percy CBE, LLD, CA, FRSA

Affirmation of University Title Rt Hon Alex Salmond MP MSP, First Minister of Scotland

Phule Phule Dole Dole Sumi Halder and Jeni Paton

Fiddle Music: Queen Margaret March and Jig QMU Traditional Music Group

Installation of Chancellor Rosalyn Marshall, Vice Principal and University Secretary The Right Honourable the Countess of Elgin and Kincardine, Life Patron

The Chancellor’s Response Sir Tom Farmer, CBE KCSG

The Student Voice Premiere of a short film produced by Stuart Brunton

‘Fields of Gold’ QMU Choir

Presentation of the University Mace by the University of Edinburgh Professor Timothy O’Shea BSc PhD FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh

The University Response Professor Anthony Cohen BA MSc PhD HonDSc(Edin) FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

When the piper plays, the assembly is requested to stand then follow the academic procession to the Hub.

Order of Proceedings

Academic Procession

A listing of those participating in the academic procession at the start and end of the ceremony can be found on page 22.


Sir Tom Farmer is one of Scotland’s leading and most highly respected entrepreneurs. He was born in 1940, the youngest of seven children and brought up in Leith. Tom opened his fi rst tyre business in 1964 and by 1969 had sold it and “retired” to the USA with wife Anne, daughter Sally and son John.

By 1971 Tom returned to Edinburgh to found Kwik-Fit, which became one of the world’s largest automotive repair specialists, operating through more than 2,300 locations in the UK and Europe and employing over 11,000 people. It grew into a £1billion business by 1999 when it was purchased by the Ford Motor Company.

Sir Tom joined the board of Ford Customer Service Division in the USA and resigned in 2002 to carry on with other business interests. Those interests include property development and investments in new business start-ups, and he is a major shareholder in the Hibernian Football Club.

Sir Tom’s business career has brought him many accolades and he has also received many honours both at home and abroad for his tireless work as a philanthropic leader in the community.

In 1990 he was awarded the CBE and in 1993 the President of Poland awarded him The Knight Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. In 1996 Queen Beatrix awarded him Officier in de Orde van Orange-Nassau of The Netherlands. In 1997 he was knighted by the Queen and also received the highest accolade possible from Pope John Paul II when he was made Knight Commander with Star of the Order of St Gregory the Great.

Sir Tom is Chairman of the Trustees of the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme and has involvement in a number of community and charitable projects. In 2006, he was the fi rst Scot to be awarded the prestigious Andrew Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy.

Sir Tom Farmer CBE KCSGChancellor

‘There shall be a Chancellor, appointed by the Court for such period or periods of offi ce as it shall determine, who shall be the titular head of the University and who shall confer degrees, diplomas and other academic distinctions.’

(Excerpt from The Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh (Scotland) Order of Council 2007)


Principal and Vice Chancellor

Professor Anthony CohenBA (Hons), MSc (Soc Sc), PhD, Hon DSc (Edin) FRSE

Professor Cohen became Principal and Vice-Patron of Queen Margaret University College in 2003. Previously he was Professor of Social Anthropology and Provost of Law and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, where he now holds an Honorary Professorship; and earlier taught at Memorial and Queen’s Universities in Canada, and at the University of Manchester. Following his doctoral research in Newfoundland, he has devoted his career in anthropological research to work in Shetland and on personal and national identity. Over more than thirty fi ve years, he has been a leading fi gure in the development of anthropological studies of northern industrialised societies. He is the author of fi ve books and more than fi fty articles and papers and has edited fi ve symposia.

Professor Cohen chairs Universities Scotland’s Health Committee and is a board member of Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian.

University Speakers

Life Patron

The Right Honourable the Countess of Elgin and Kincardine

Lady Elgin has been Pro Patron of Queen Margaret since 1993, becoming Life Patron in 2006. For many years she represented Queen Margaret’s last Patron, the late Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, at offi cial functions, including graduation ceremonies and celebratory events, and in September 2000 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of the University College.

Lady Elgin was Patron in Fife of the Saint Margaret 900 celebrations which marked the centenerary of the death of the Queen after whom the University is named. The Countess is also associated with the Abbeyfi eld Society for Scotland and various charitable organisations in Fife and Edinburgh.

She studied at the French University of Angers before marrying Lord Elgin, then Lord Bruce, in 1959, with whom she has fi ve children and eleven grandchildren.

Chairman of the Governing Body

Professor John Pitkeathly Percy CBE, LLD, CA, FRSA

Professor Percy is Deputy Chairman of The Weir Group plc and Ricardo plc and senior non executive director of Cala Limited. Previous positions have included Chairman of Companies House until 2006, the Accounts Commission for Scotland and Audit Scotland until 2000, and Kiln plc to 2004. He was President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland in 1990-91 and represented the UK as Vice-Chairman of the Auditing Practices Board on the International Standard Setting Body for 1995-2000.

He has been Chairman of the Court of the Edinburgh Academy.

He is a Freeman of the City of London, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Companion of the Institute of Management and was awarded a CBE for service to the Accountancy Profession and Local Government in 1996.

University Speakers

Vice Principal and University Secretary

Rosalyn Marshall BSc, FCCA

Rosalyn Marshall joined Queen Margaret College as Assistant Principal (Administration and Finance) in 1992.

In 1997 she became Vice Principal (Strategic Planning and Development), with responsibility for a wide range of corporate functions. She was also appointed as an executive member of the Governing Body.

In June 2003 she was appointed leader of RE:LOCATE, the £105m project to relocate Queen Margaret University from its current campuses to a new purpose-built campus at Craighall, Musselburgh. The project is on budget and on target to open in September 2007.

She has been a member of the Accounts Commission for Scotland, the UK HE Value for Money Steering Group and a board member of the Edinburgh Academy. She is a member of Common Purpose Advisory Group, Edinburgh, and a member of the Audit Committee of Historic Scotland.


From its humble beginnings, Queen Margaret has developed a strong reputation for enhancing quality of life in the communities it serves and addressing some of the most pressing needs of society. These values are as important today as they were in 1875. With the attainment of full university title and the development of Scotland’s first full university campus of the 21st century, Queen Margaret University will make a crucial and distinctive contribution to Scotland’s university system and to society as a whole.

The institution that is now Queen Margaret University was established as a voluntary effort to address two of the key problems of its day: the demand for better education and improved career opportunities for females, and the need for an improvement in public health, particularly of the working class.

At first, teaching staff went out with mobile gas and paraffin cooking equipment to give programmes of public lectures and demonstrations all over Britain. The institution’s first permanent base was established in Shandwick Place in 1877. In 1891 the institution moved to Atholl Crescent and over the next fifty years or so gradually extended its premises along the Crescent.

Through the first half of the twentieth century, the institution flourished, mainly training cookery teachers. However,

by the 1960s, major changes in society meant that the institution needed to adapt in order to remain true to its goal of improving quality of life. There was a need to address women’s increasing demand for wider educational opportunities and access to careers that would enable them to compete on a basis of genuine equality.

As part of the modernisation process an area of the Clermiston estate in west Edinburgh was acquired from Wimpey Homes in 1961, and a new campus was built there, opening in 1970. Over the next two decades, the institution was transformed into a higher education institution, offering an increasingly broad range of courses.

The name Queen Margaret College was adopted in 1972. More traditional courses in food were developed into degrees in dietetics and consumer studies. A number of other institutions were incorporated into Queen Margaret, and a broad range of degree programmes was introduced, with a great emphasis on nursing, speech science and therapy, the allied health professions and drama. To keep pace with changes in society’s needs, over the years, courses were also developed in subjects including public relations, applied pharmacology and psychology.

In September 1992 the Privy Council granted Queen Margaret College powers to award its own taught degrees,

A Proud History Serving Society

First established in 1875, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh has a proud history of achievement and progress extending for over a century.

a public recognition of the rigorously high academic standards now being applied within the institution. In 1998, the college was granted full degree powers which enabled it to award its own research and higher degrees, and in 1999 Queen Margaret was empowered to take the title of University College.

The growth in student numbers since 1999 has allowed Queen Margaret to meet the final key criterion for becoming a university. The award of full university title simply confirms Queen Margaret’s long-established position as a university-level institution.

Today, inspired by its history and the great tradition of Scottish education, Queen Margaret University is dedicated to delivering learning, teaching and research in subjects which inform public policy and enhance people’s lives. It has developed an international reputation for providing quality undergraduate and postgraduate education for the health professions, in business and the arts and social sciences. Its specialist research centres have gained worldwide recognition and staff work collaboratively with local, national and international partners. The university is committed to lifelong learning and to developing innovative access routes to higher education.

Queen Margaret University is helping Scotland succeed in the 21st century knowledge economy. The university teaches people how to heal, to innovate, to question, to share knowledge, to perform, to nurture and to manage. It is a university not just about wealth creation; but also about sustaining and bettering society. Queen Margaret University meets real social needs within communities locally and internationally. It helps children affected by cleft palates, and people suffering from chronic pain. It makes the arts accessible to the marginalised; and helps improve healthcare across nations.

Sustainably small, innovative, dynamic, distinctive, focused, relevant – all these are accurate descriptions of Scotland’s newest university.

The award of university title, along with the innovative new campus, and the constant pursuit of excellence, will enable Queen Margaret University to realise its full potential.

Information taken from ‘The Excellent Women’ by Tom Begg


In 1972 the name Queen Margaret was incorporated in the institution’s title. It was entirely appropriate that the name of Scotland’s venerated 11th century Anglo-Hungarian Queen should be adopted by a significant Scottish place of higher learning as she exemplied the institution’s key values of serving the community and enhancing the quality of life.

Margaret, Queen consort of King Malcolm Canmore, is particularly remembered for bringing European influences to Scotland. She was canonised in 1250 by Pope Innocent IV in recognition of her contribution to bringing the church in Scotland into the community of the wider church throughout Europe.

Her priest, Turgot, who recorded her life, tells us that Margaret was a fine scholar, who cherished her books and possessed a formidable intellectual capacity. She often debated the affairs of state with the King’s noble and clerical advisers.

As a deeply religious woman Queen Margaret was concerned with “works of mercy and almsgiving” and particularly with the care of the poor.

If any single action confirmed Queen Margaret’s traditional place in the popular memory of Scotland, it was her establishment of shelters and rest houses at Queensferry for the use of poor travellers and pilgrims on their way to the shrine at St Andrews. There, the weary travellers could secure not only rest and refreshment for their bodies, but passagium reginae, a ferry passage over the Forth, at her expense.

Queen Margaret - A Practical Saint

Queen Margaret University developed from the Edinburgh School of Cookery (established 1875) which became Edinburgh College of Domestic Science (established 1909). The schools and programmes which have joined Queen Margaret over the years are:

• Edinburgh College of Speech and Drama (established 1929) in 1971;

• City of Edinburgh Health Visitor Certificate Course (established 1919) in 1972;

• Edinburgh School of Speech Therapy (established 1946) in 1975;

• The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh School of Physiotherapy (established 1940) in 1978;

• Occupational Therapy Training Centre, Astley Ainslie Hospital (established 1937) in 1979;

• Edinburgh Foot Clinic and School of Chiropody (established 1924) in 1984;

• Edinburgh School of Radiography (established 1936) in 1992;

• School of Art Therapy at Edinburgh University Settlement (established 1992) in 1997;

• Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy programme from University of Edinburgh in 2005 and

• Children’s Hearing Training Unit from University of Edinburgh in 2005.

Institutions Incorporated into Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh

The University Mace

The Queen Margaret University tartan commemorates the creation of the university in 2007.

The institution that became Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh was originally established in 1875 by Christian Guthrie Wright and Louise Stevenson. Features from the tartans associated with their names, MacIntyre and Ayrshire District respectively, have been included in the design.

The colours used refl ect the university’s corporate colours of blue, silver and white. Green has been added to represent the university’s commitment to sustainability, and the design also features purple, from Scotland’s traditional thistle emblem.

The tartan has been designed in Scotland by Kinloch Anderson, Scotland’s foremost experts in highland dress.

The Queen Margaret University Tartan


The mace has been created to mark the award of university title to Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and is being used today for the very fi rst time, as an integral part of this celebratory ceremony.

The mace has been generously gifted by the University of Edinburgh and was designed and constructed by Grant McCaig, silversmith and tutor at Edinburgh College of Art.

The mace symbolises the university’s role in Scotland and values of unity, individuality, community and diversity. The mace also represents the university’s growth, international focus and commitment to sustainability.

The shapes, materials and words within the design of the mace are all symbolic. The sustainably sourced Scottish wood represents individualism with a blossom motif representing growth. Scottish nationality is represented by the unity of the design which composes two contrasting materials - wood and metal - reflecting Scotland’s geology

which has been created from opposing forces – molten rock versus the destructive power of erosion. The local, national and global community, unity and diversity are represented by the positioning of the university crest within a three-pronged wood foundation.

Within the design of the mace, the artist has encapsulated the university’s acknowledgment of its past, its present and its future in a striking and contemporary way.

Grant McCaig is based in Edinburgh and exhibits his work internationally. Recent commissions include designing the Millennium Link for Edinburgh’s Lord Provost’s Chain of Offi ce, a fruit bowl for the Bute House Silver Collection and a whisky set with tumblers for Robbie Coltrane as part of the Silver of the Stars exhibition, commissioned by the Incorporation of Goldsmiths, Edinburgh.

Senior Management Team

Professor Anthony P Cohen FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor

Rosalyn Marshall, Vice Principal and University Secretary

Professor David Kirk, Vice Principal (Learning and Teaching)

Professor Alan Gilloran, Vice Principal (Research Development)

Professor Richard Kerley, Vice Principal (International Strategy and Commercialisation)

Dr Christine L Cnossen, Dean, School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication

Professor Marie Donaghy, Dean, School of Health Sciences

Professor Mike Donnelly, Dean, School of Business and Enterprise

Dr David Dunn, Dean, School of Drama and Creative Industries

Liam McCabe, Director of Strategic Financial Management and Business Services

Dorothy Wright, Director of Human Resources

Irene Hynd, Director of Registry and Secretariat

Student Union

James Wilkinson, President

John Baxter, Vice President

Senior Officers of the University Court of the University


Lay Members

Professor John Pitkeathly Percy CBE, LLD, CA, FRSA (chair)

Professor Sally Brown OBE, BSc, MA, PhD, DUniv, DEduc, FSCRE, FEIS, FRSA, FRSE (vice-chair)

Morag Alexander BA, OBE

Joanna Baker BA

Keir Bloomer BA

Sharon Brown FCMA

Dr Graham Buckley BSc, MD, FRCGP, FRCPE, FRCSE

Marcia Campbell MA, MBA

Cllr Maureen Child BSc, PhD

Dr Frances Dow MA, D.Phil

Dr Zoë Dunhill MBE, MBChB, DCH, FRCPE, FRCPCH, MBA

Ronnie Hanna CA

Vikram Lall CBE, CA

Norman Murray

John Newall LLB, WS, NP

George Sutherland CA, FIMgt

Elected Members

Rune By BA, MA

Jamie Tait MA

A further member is in the process of being elected by the Senate.

Ex Officio Members

Professor Anthony P Cohen BA, MSc, PhD, HonDSc, FRSE

Rosalyn Marshall BSc, FCCA

Professor David Kirk BSc, M.Phil, FIFST, FIH

James Wilkinson

John Baxter

Honorary Graduates (1987 - 2006)


1987 Margaret Gibson Auld

1989 William Rough Bryden Malcolm David Mill (Calum Mill) (deceased)

1991 Ester Cotton (deceased)

1994 HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester (deceased) Ann Gloag Sir Peter Heatly CBE Rev Colin R Martin (deceased) Claudine Lapsley Morgan (deceased)

1995 Graham Maitland Bowie CBE Dr Lisbeth Hockey OBE (deceased) Russell Hunter (deceased) Una McLean Professor Leslie Rodger

1996 Professor David Crystal OBE Mary Cunningham MBE (deceased) Joan Knight OBE (deceased)

1997 George Borthwick CBE Sir David Carter Professor Blaise Cronin Prue Leith OBE

1998 Dr Campbell Christie CBE Professor Mary Marshall OBE Peter Lederer CBE

1999 Derek Cooper OBE Dr John Baynham CBE Tom Fleming CVO OBE Anne Jarvie OBE

2000 Andrew Cubie CBE Dr Derek Doyle OBE Dr Wali Uddin Professor Sir John Arbuthnott Dame Judi Dench The Rt Hon The Countess of Elgin and Kincardine Canon Kenyon Wright Dr Wilma Steedman Joyce McMillan

2001 The Baroness Linklater of Butterstone Edith Macarthur Peter Taylor OBE Professor Clive Perry OBE (deceased)

2002 Ronnie Corbett OBE Sir Tom Farmer CBE KCSG Professor Peter Ladefoged (deceased) Sir Rocco Forte Peter Thomson Niall Bowen Vera Weisfeld

2003 Professor Sir Neil MacCormick Professor Janet Finch Michel Tremblay Professor Donald Leach CBE

2004 Joan Bakewell CBE Professor Gary Kielhofner The Rt Hon Lord Sutherland of Houndwood KT FBA FRSE Professor the Lord Quirk of Bloomsbury KT CBE FBA Lord Puttnam of Queensgate

2005 Dr Barbara Kelly CBE Liz Lochhead Sir John Ward CBE Professor Margaret Alexander CBE Professor Raj Singh Bhopal CBE

2006 Robert Black FRSE Professor John D M H Laver CBE Catherine Lockerbie Rt Hon George Reid MSP

2007 [to be conferred on 6th July 2007] Rt Hon Lord Neil Kinnock Brian Cox CBE Mel Young Janet Lowe CBE

[to be conferred in November 2007] Edith Bowman Magnus Linklater FRSE Ken McCulloch

Inspired by the great tradition of Scottish education, Queen Margaret University is dedicated to delivering professional learning and specialises in research which is of value to the community and enhances people’s lives. We have expertise in health; drama and the creative industries; media and social science; and business and enterprise. We welcome all in society, from home and abroad, who wish to realise their full potential. The award of university title allows us to fulfil our full potential.

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Academic Procession

Senate

Principals of the Scottish Universities or their representatives

Honorary Graduates of the University

Collaborative Partners of the University

President of the Graduates’ Association

Court of the University

President of the Students’ Union

Director of Registry and Secretariat

Deans of Schools

Director of Strategic Financial Management

Director of Human Resources

The University Mace

Vice Principal (Research)

Vice Principal (Internationalisation and Commercialism)

First Minister

Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh

Vice Principal and University Secretary

Vice Principal (Learning and Teaching)

Chair of the Court of the University

Principal and Vice-Chancellor

Life Patron

Chancellor

The procession, including members and representatives of the under-noted bodies, will enter the hall in the following order.

The procession will leave the hall in reverse order, led by the Chancellor.

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