3 new Professors

Three new chairs have been appointed at the University starting this term.

Professor Deirdre Murphy has been appointed to the head of obstetrics and gynaecology replacing professor Peter Howie who retired last year. Professor Murphy has come from Bristol University where she was consultant lecturer in maternal medicine. She was previously a research fellow at Oxford University taking her medical degree at Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests incorporate applied and aetiological epidemiology and laboratory based studies exploring the pathogenesis of pregnancy related disorders. Professor Murphy was chosen for the clinical teacher of the year award by medical students at Bristol University.

Professor Doreen Cantrell takes up a personal chair in immunology in the school of life sciences. She has come from the Cancer Research UK London Research Institute where she was principal scientist and head of the lymphocyte activation lab. Doreen is a leading researcher in leukaemia and lymphomas and has been awarded a prestigious principal research fellowship and a £4 million programme grant from The Wellcome Trust. A zoology graduate of the University of Wales Aberystwyth, she received her PhD in Immunology from the University of Nottingham in 1982, and carried out postdoctoral research at Dartmouth Medical School, New Hampshire, USA. Professor Cantrell is currently deputy board chairman of the UK Medical Research Council's Molecular Biology and Cell Board. She also holds Honorary Professorships at University College London and at the University of Witswatersrand, South Africa.

Professor Rose Barbour has been appointed to the chair in health and social care in the school of nursing and midwifery. She is currently a senior lecturer in primary care research and development at the department of general practice at Glasgow University. She studied for both her first degree and PhD at the University of Aberdeen. Her disciplinary background is medical sociology and her main research interests are professional responses to change, user perspectives and user involvement. Although she has a strong interest in developing mixed methods approach, Rose has particular expertise in qualitative methods. Over the past five years she has designed and run a range of workshops for researchers and practitioners held throughout Scotland, the UK and a number of other countries.

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