Orations

From 2011 to 2017 one of my roles at the University of Birmingham was as one of the Public Orators who introduced these who were to be awarded honorary degrees / prizes etc. Links to the orations I have given over that period are given below. They are all of the same (necessarily) stylized form. From 2015 the University reduced the number of honorary degrees it gave quite substantially and put in place mechanisms to rein in the verbosity of public orators so that the graduation ceremonies could proceed rather more expeditiously. Hence there are fewer orations from 2015 on – and they are usually somewhat shorter in length.

2011   Dec 16^th          Rolf-Dieter Heuer                  Doctor of Science

2012   July 5^th            Anne Widdecombe                Doctor of the University

2012   July 10^th          Sue Ion                                   Doctor of Science

2012   July 11^th          Francis Richards                   Doctor of the University

2013   July 3^rd            Pritam Sharma                      Doctor of Engineering

2013   July 4^th            Jinghai Li                                Doctor of Engineering

2013   July 5^th            Christopher Addison             Doctor of the University

2013   Dec 10^th          Terry Morgan                         Doctor of Engineering

2013   Dec 11^th          Keith Murray                         Guild of Benefactors

2013   Dec 11^th          Adrian Shooter                      Doctor of the University

2014   July 9^th            Hamid Mughal                       Doctor of Engineering

2014   July 11^th          John Plant                               Doctor of the University

2014   July 11th         Derek Pearsall                       Doctor of Letters

2014   July 14^th          David Haslam                         Doctor of the University

2014   July 14^th          Alexandra Matthews             Vice Chancellors Prize

2014   Dec 11^th          Desra Percaya                       Doctor of the University

2014   Dec 12^th          John Nolan                             Doctor of Engineering

2014                           Rachel Severn                        Chancellors Prize

2015   July 8^th            Lim Ming Yan                         Doctor of Social Science

2015   July 10^th          Billie Major                            Alumna of the year

2015   July 13^th          Philip Sugarman                    Doctor of Medicine

2015   Dec 10^th          Zude Zhou                              Doctor of Engineering

2015   Dec 10^th          Azeefa Sajad                           Vice Chancellors Prize

2016   July 7th           Charlotte Hill                          Alumna of the year

2016   July 12th         Jane Guyer                             Doctor of Letters

2016   Dec 8th           Martin Slumbers                   Doctor of the University

2017   July 10^th          Sarah-Jane Marsh                  Doctor of the University