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CONVOCATION 16 May 2009

Council Secretariat

Election of Professor of Poetry

UPDATE: Ruth Padel has decided not to take up her position. Further details will be posted in due course.

A meeting of Convocation1 was held on Saturday, 16 May 2009, in order to elect a Professor of Poetry, to hold office for five years from the first day of Michaelmas Term 2009. RUTH SOPHIA PADEL was duly elected.

[The votes recorded were: ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA 129 and RUTH SOPHIA PADEL 297; 51 ballots were spoiled.]

Further information about election procedures may be found in Council Regulations 8 of 2002.

1 Convocation consists of all the former student members of the University who have been admitted to a degree (other than an honorary degree) of the University, and of any other persons who are members of Congregation or who have retired having been members of Congregation on the date of their retirement.Its functions are set out in the University Statutes.

2 The rules made by Council governing the circulation of flysheets are given in Appendix B of Congregation Regulations 2 of 2002