Warwick People

Professor John Ellis FRS, an Emeritus Professor in the School of Life Sciences, was awarded the Croonian Lecture Prize of the Royal Society for 2011 for his pioneering contributions to biochemistry, molecular biology, and plant sciences.

Professor Jane Hutton, Department of Statistics, along with former PhD Student Judith Anzures-Cabrera has been awarded the Gopal Kanji Prize by the Journal of Applied Statistics.

Warwick's young tennis teams were successful at the Aegon Classic at Edgbaston, a tournament for under 10s in Warwickshire. All the teams involved train at the University, managed by inspire2coach.

Bob Thomson, Learning and Development Adviser within Warwick's Learning and Development Centre (LDC) recently spent a week coaching in China at the invitation of the Beijing University of Technology. Bob ran six workshops for academics, administrators and PhD students there, using a coaching approach to help each group explore the issues of most interest to them.

Professor Peter Elias, Institute for Employment Research, has been awarded a CBE in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours list. The award comes in recognition of Professor Elias' contributions to social science.