Professor Pat Monaghan FRS FRSE
President

Pat Monaghan studied at the Universities of Glasgow and Durham, and is currently Regius Professor of Zoology at the University of Glasgow. She is internationally recognised for her research work on how animals respond to environmental change, for which she has received a number of honours. 

Dr Geraint Bevan
Previous President

Geraint was raised in Letchworth Garden City and educated at Salford (BEng (Hons) Aeronautical Engineering, 1996) and Glasgow (PhD, 2008; PGCAP, 2010) where he was employed as a Research Associate, Analyst/Programmer and University Teacher.

Dr Colin Miller
Vice President

Colin was born and educated in Glasgow and qualified as a doctor in 1976. His postgraduate training was in anaesthetics and has mostly been in the central belt of Scotland. He spent a year in Hong Kong doing cardia-thoracic anaesthesia and was appointed as a consultant anaesthetist to Stobhill Hospital in 1990.

Tony Burton OBE
Honorary Secretary

Tony graduated from the University of Keele in Philosophy and English literature and was a teacher in Malaysia before taking up a post as a writer and researcher for Which? magazine. In 1975 he was appointed Chief Executive of the Planning Exchange in Glasgow, which focused on promoting Innovative practice in economic, social and environmental development throughout the UK.

Richard Service CA CTA
Honorary Treasurer

Having graduated from the University of St Andrews and qualifying as a chartered accountant, Richard specialised in taxation. He worked in both the profession and commerce mostly in the area of corporate tax. He advised businesses ranging from small family owned companies to FTSE listed multi-nationals.

Dr Leonard Esakowitz FRCOphth FRCS(Ed) DO

Leonard was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was until recent retirement a consultant ophthalmologist in the Glasgow area. He has long been curious about how things work – or don’t. Enjoys the arts, photography, his allotment and sociable times.

Campbell Forrest

Campbell was born and educated in Glasgow. Most of career was spent in management of heavy industry in Scotland – aluminium smelting in the Highlands and a rolling mill in Falkirk. He was Divisional Director of British Alcan and was also managing director of a retail company with high marketing exposure, and Board member of Associated Independent Stores.

Professor Felicity Huntingford FRSE

Felicity took her Batchelor and Doctoral degrees at Oxford University, before moving to the University of Glasgow in 1974 to take up a lectureship in Zoology. She was promoted to Titular Professor in 1994, retired in 2011 and now holds an honorary research position, still in Glasgow.

Professor Adrian Bowman FRSE

Adrian Bowman is Emeritus Professor of Statistics in the University of Glasgow. He grew up in the seaside town of Prestwick in Scotland, followed by university education in Glasgow and Cambridge, in Mathematics and then Statistics. 

Professor Graham C M Watt CBE

Graham, having graduated in Medicine from Aberdeen University, is now Emeritus Professor, General Practice and Primary Care at the University of Glasgow. He held the post of Norie Miller Professor of General Practice, University of Glasgow between 1994 and 2016 and was elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences in 2000. He was also elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2014.

Liz Davidson

Liz Davidson is currently Project Director at the National Trust for Scotland with responsibility for the repair and conservation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House, in Helensburgh, Argyll.

Maggie Reilly

Maggie is a RPSG member who recently retired as a senior curator at the Hunterian Museum, where she worked particularly with the zoology, natural history and anatomy collections, and was also involved more generally with the museum and its work. She still holds a position in the Hunterian as an honorary research fellow.

Shiona Waldron

Before becoming a solicitor in private practice Shiona had a 10 year career in the voluntary sector. Firstly running the Scottish office of the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service during which period she was Chair of Strathclyde Community Relations Council, Strathclyde Interpreting Service and a member of the Commission for Racial Equality’s Scottish Advisory Committee.

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