Professor Adrian Dixon
Professor
Adrian Dixon was born in Cambridge to Irish parents in 1948. He is now Master
of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge, Editor-in-Chief of European
Radiology and Consultant Radiologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital. The son of a
distinguished pathologist, Professor Kendal Dixon, and the grandson of a famous
Irish scientist, Henry Horatio Dixon, he graduated from King's College,
Cambridge in 1969 before undertaking clinical studies at St Bartholomew’s
Hospital, London. He then pursued general medicine in Nottingham, before specialising
in radiology. After spells in paediatric radiology and computed tomography (CT)
in London, he became a Lecturer in the University of Cambridge Department of
Radiology where he was Professor of Radiology and Head of Department between
1994 and 2009. He was made a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1998
and an Honorary Fellow of the American College of Radiology in 2009.
Professor Dixon is to be
bestowed with a degree of Doctor of Medicine
Commodore Frank Lynch (Rtd)
A
native of County Galway, Commodore Lynch joined the Naval Service in November
1968 and was commissioned in 1970. After a further two years of training ashore
and afloat in the Naval Service and at Britannia Royal Naval College, he
qualified as an Operations Officer. He completed the Command & Staff course
in the Military College at the Curragh during 1984/85. Commodore Lynch holds a
higher Diploma in Information Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of
Science Degree in Information Technology from Dublin City University in 1994.
He completed an MSc in Operations Management through Dublin City University in
August 2002. Commodore Lynch’s career has spanned great changes in the
development of Ireland’s maritime domain:
From
a small 360 personnel navy with no operational ships and a 12 mile limit; to a
1000 plus, 8 ship navy, a continental shelf claim of over 400 miles and a
significant role in the exploitation of Ireland’s offshore resources.
Commodore Lynch is to be
bestowed with a degree of Doctor of Laws
Ms Harriet O’Donovan-Sheehy
Harriet
O’Donovan-Sheehy, widow of Writer, Frank O’Connor, has made an enormous
contribution to the world of literature and arts through her stewardship,
custody and management of the legacy of Frank O’Connor as well as her key role
in the initiation of worldwide recognition of the importance and centrality of
the short story and its importance to the place of Cork and to UCC. She has
made a number of very significant donations to UCC over the past 15 years, as
well as providing the finance to establish the official UCC Frank O’Connor
website in 2008 www.frankoconnor.ie Her extremely generous bequests to UCC’s Boole Library have
consisted of rare manuscripts, rare books, and specialist archival material. By
her actions, she has entrusted to UCC the custodianship of part of Ireland’s
priceless literary heritage.
Ms O’Donovan-Sheehy is to be
bestowed with a degree of Doctor of Literature
Dr Sha Hailin
Sha
Hailin, former Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Ireland, was
born in Shanghai in 1957 and graduated from Shanghai Normal University and
Tongji University with a Master of Engineering, Doctor of Management. In the course of his career, he has
served as Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Shanghai, Dean of
the Shanghai Institute of Young Cadre; Chairman of the Shanghai Youth
Federation; and Standing Member of All-China Youth Federation. He served in the Chinese Embassy
Minister Counsellor in the US and later Chinese Ambassador to Ireland. He was
Deputy Secretary-General of the Shanghai Municipal Government after returned to
Shanghai and more recently, Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of
Commerce.
Dr Sha Hailin is to be
bestowed with a degree of Doctor of Laws
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