Pictured (l-r) is Professor Hannah McGee, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, RCSI; Professor John Hyland, President, RCSI; Professor Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford; and Professor Cathal Kelly, CEO/Registrar RCSI. Louise Richardson, Vice-Chancellor of University of Oxford, received the Inaugural Emily Winifred Dickson award from RCSI at a special ceremony which took place at the College on 23rd September. Professor Richardson also delivered a lecture entitled ‘Education in the 21st Century’. The award, which recognises women who have made an outstanding contribution to their field, has been established in honour of Emily Winifred Dickson who broke boundaries when she became the first female Fellow of RCSI in 1893, which made her the first female Fellow of any of the surgical royal colleges in Britain and Ireland