OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY DSc: Julia Neuberger, rabbi and chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust; David Weatherall, Regius professor of medicine at the University of Oxford; Ruth Campion, head of the school of health care studies at Oxford Brookes (1987/95).

DA: Ashley Ponsonby, lord-lieutenant of Oxfordshire; Paul Oliver, author, lecturer and broadcaster.

DBA: Patrick Roper, director of the Millennium Tree Line Project and chairman of Archmain Ltd; John Neill, group chief executive of Unipart Group of Companies.

LLD: Stephen Tumim, HM chief inspector of prisons.

DLitt: Lucy Faithfull, chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Children and president of the National Children's Bureau; Carmen Callil, founder of Virago Press and managing director of Chatto & Windus; John Hanson, director general of the British Council.

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MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY DA: Robert Hopper, director of the Henry Moore Sculpture Trust.

DBA: David Sainsbury, chairman and chief executive of J Sainsbury plc.

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LLD: Harry Woolf, lord of appeal in ordinary.

Honorary fellowship: Ronald Yeo, former secretary and clerk to the university's board of governors.

MSc: June Maelzer, training officer, Manchester City Council.

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