Her Majesty and His Royal Highness will arrive at the University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester.

The Lord-Lieutenant will escort Her Majesty and the Vice Lord-Lieutenant will escort His Royal Highness (via steps, up) across the campus square (where students will be gathered) to the Main Entrance, David Wilson Library, and ask leave to present

The High Sheriff of Leicestershire

(Mr David Wyrko QPM)

Mrs Beryl Wyrko

The Chancellor of the University of Leicester

Sir Peter Williams CBE

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leicester

Professor Robert Burgess 

The Chancellor will escort Her Majesty, and the Vice-Chancellor will escort His Royal Highness, to the Entrance Lobby and ask leave to present:

Dr Hilary Burgess

The Chairman of the University Council

(Mr Roger Bettles)

The University Treasurer

(Mr Michael Chamberlain OBE)

The Registrar and Secretary

(Mr David Hall)

The Chancellor will escort Her Majesty, and the Vice-Chancellor will escort His Royal Highness, along The Street, pausing beside the sculpture Shadow Figures, and there will ask leave to present:

The Sculptor

(Dr Helaine Blumenfeld)

The Donor

Dr Frank May MBE

The Chancellor will escort Her Majesty, and the Vice-Chancellor will escort His Royal Highness, to the Help Zone to meet two students who will demonstrate use of the online search and enquiry system.

The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor will ask leave to present two Distinguished Honorary Fellows of the University who were presented to Her Majesty on the occasion of her visit to the University in 1958:

Dr Wendy Hickling OBE JP DL

Mrs Jean Humphreys

The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor will invite Her Majesty and His Royal Highness to view a demonstration of the automated book return facility.

The self-service book return allows students to return their books throughout the long Library opening hours quickly and easily. A state-of –the-art- system using RFID technology, it has an easy-to-use interface that ensures that each item is returned correctly and a receipt issued.  The automated book return sorts each item into the appropriate bin allowing library staff to quickly send materials to the correct locations for shelving. The new system has proved very popular with library users and since its introduction on 1 April it has handled 85% of returned books. The introduction of both self-service book issue and return has allowed the Library to further improve its services to users by allowing them to borrow and return books at a time most convenient to them, whilst freeing up staff time to spend more time helping students in the library.   The self-service equipment was supplied and installed by  3M Library Systems which has provided some of the world's leading academic libraries with self-service and security solutions that harness both established and emerging technologies.

The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor will escort Her Majesty and His Royal Highness (via stairs, up) to the Group Study Room to meet a group of medical students who will demonstrate some of their work on the respiratory system.

The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor will escort Her Majesty and His Royal Highness to the Postgraduate Suite, and ask leave to present:

The Principal Sponsor

Mr David Wilson DL

Mrs Laura Wilson

The Former Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Fundraising

(Mr Nicholas Corah OBE DL)

Mrs Penny Corah

Pro-Vice-Chancellor and University Librarian

(Ms Christine Fyfe)

Director of Library Services

(Ms Louise Jones)

The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor will escort Her Majesty and His Royal Highness through the Postgraduate Suite where sponsors, students and guests will be gathered (90).

(There will be an opportunity to view a model of the library and to meet the architect and building and furniture contractors)

The Chancellor will invite Her Majesty and the Vice-Chancellor will invite His Royal Highness to view displays depicting:

Her Majesty

(1)       Her Majesty’s visit of 1958 led by Louise Jones: a display of photographs,  press reports and commemorative publications from the Royal Visit of May 1958 which included the opening of Percy Gee Building. (more info in press pack)

(2)       The Special Collections led by Christine Fyfe: a small display of rare Bibles, local history books and other volumes of interest from the Library's Special Collections.

The Library has a notable collection of manuscripts and early books, ranging from medieval Books of Hours to the literary papers of Adrian Mole creator Sue Townsend. These can be consulted in the Kirby and West Special Collections suite in the David Wilson Library. During the Royal visit, the Queen will see examples of rare Bibles from the Robjohns collection including the 1631 'Wicked Bible', so-called because the word 'not' was omitted from the seventh commandment. She will also see topographical books from the renowned Hatton Collection and portrait prints from the Fairclough Collection.

His Royal Highness

(1)       Space Research demonstration of the Plume Project, a student-run satellite project which allows small spacecraft to be launched at very low cost by piggy backing on the launch of a large satellite which provides real-life experience of working on space instrumentation led by Professor Martin Barstow.

(2)       Earth Observation demonstration on the application of space-based observations of the earth to science and everyday problems including quantifying greenhouse gases, the effect of urbanisation on the Indian sub-continent and the global impact of fires.

The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor will escort Her Majesty and His Royal Highness to the PC Zone to meet students who will demonstrate how they use IT to research and present their work:

Her Majesty

Computer Science students, led by Professor Reiko Heckel, will discuss the ongoing development of the ‘Virtual Teaching Hospital System’.

This system allows practicing of diagnosing and managing patients in simulations using real patient data. The intention is to improve supervision of medical students during clinical placements by providing feedback on diagnosis and treatment choices through a web-based medical decision support system.

This development, which is carried out in cooperation with Dr John Omara and in consultation with the Medical School, has progressed through a number of past and ongoing projects at the Department of Computer Science. The system will be presented by some of the participants in these projects, specifically, the group who won the BEA Systems Award for the best 2nd year project, and Adwoa Donyina who continued this work in her MSc project and is now doing her PhD at the Department.

His Royal Highness

Archaeology and Ancient History students, led by Dr Penelope Allison, will demonstrate how to use the Pompeii database.

Students will be using these two Pompeian sites for their assignments:

1.     The ‘Pompeian Households’ website (www.stoa.org/pompeianhouseholds/) comprises information on thirty Pompeian houses, including searchable database of some 16000 artefacts from these houses. Companion to P. M. Allison, Pompeii households: Analysis of the material culture (Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, 2004 –  reprinted 2005)

2.     The ‘Insula of the Menander website’ (www.stoa.org/menanderinsula/) comprises a searchable database of 2000 artefacts, with photographs, from this city block. Companion to P. M.Allison, The Insula of the Menander in Pompeii III: The Finds, a Contextual Study (Oxford University Press, 2006).

Penelope will also be testing her most recent project with postgraduate students:

3.     Engendering Roman Military Spaces (http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/archive/milspace_leic_2008/ ) -  website artefact distribution plots in GIS (Geographical Information Software) for investigating evidence for women and children in Roman military sites (under development with Archaeological Data Service).

The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor will escort Her Majesty and His Royal Highness (via stairs, down) to the Main Foyer.

The Vice-Chancellor will express thanks to Her Majesty and His Royal Highness and will invite Her Majesty to unveil a commemorative plaque.

The Vice-Chancellor will invite Her Majesty and His Royal Highness to sign a portrait photograph.

The Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor will escort Her Majesty and His Royal Highness to the Main Entrance, and take leave.