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{{short description|British scholar of French (born 1951)}}
'''Michael John Worton''' [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (born 1951) is a British scholar of French. He was [[Provost (education)|Vice-Provost]] (International) of [[University College London]] (UCL), appointed 1998. He held this appointment concurrently with the university's Fielden Professorship of French Language and Literature.<ref>Michael Worton, UCL website <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/vice-provost/worton/>, accessed 1 June 2010</ref> He retired at the end of September 2013.<ref>Professor Michael Worton to retire after 33 years at UCL<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0613/130627-professor-michael-worton-to-retire-after-33-years-at-UCL></ref>▼
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| caption = Worton in 2015
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| birth_name = Michael John Worton
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| birth_place = [[Luanshya]], [[Northern Rhodesia]]
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| awards = [[Ordre des Palmes Académiques]] (2018)
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| education = [[Dumfries Academy]]<br />[[University of Edinburgh]] (PhD)
| thesis_title = The evolution of the poetry of Rene Char, 1928-1945
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| thesis_year = 1982
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▲'''Michael John Worton'''
In 2009, he wrote ''Review of Modern Foreign Languages Provision in Higher Education in England''<ref>See HEFCE website < http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/hefce/2009/09_41/>
==Early life and education==
Worton was born in [[Luanshya]], [[Northern Rhodesia]] (now [[Zambia]]), of a Yorkshire father and Scottish mother. Worton's family returned to [[Scotland]] when he was still of primary-school age, and he
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Worton's first post (1976) was as lecturer in French at the [[
===Honours and awards===▼
Worton was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2014 Birthday Honours]] for services to higher education.<ref>
{{London Gazette |issue=60895 |date=14 June 2014 |page=b11 |supp=y}}</ref>
* 1998: [[Ordre des Palmes Académiques|Chevalier]] dans l'[[Ordre des Palmes Académiques]]
▲==Honours==
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* 25 November 2010: [[President's Medal (British Academy)|President's Medal]] by the [[British Academy]]; "for his leadership in addressing 'the languages deficit' among British university students"<ref>{{cite news|title=British Academy President's Medal|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/sites/default/files/BAR17-06-PresidentsMedal.pdf|accessdate=23 July 2017|work=British Academy Review|issue=17|date=March 2011|pages=13–14}}</ref>
▲* 2009: [[Medal]] of Honoured Worker in Education of the [[Republic of Kazakhstan]]
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* Member, [[Philip Lawrence Awards]] Judging Panel | Member, European Science Foundation Steering Committee, 'European Reference Index for the
===Publications===
* ''Typical Men'' <ref>(Djanogly Art Gallery, Nottingham 2001). Catalogue of the exhibition Typical Men. Recent Photography of the Male Body by Men
* ''Women's Writing in Contemporary France: New Writers, New Literatures in the 1990s''
* ''National Healths: Gender, Sexuality and Health in a Cross-cultural Context'
* ''Liberating Learning: Widening Participation''
* ''[[Michel Tournier (Worton book)|Michel Tournier]]'' (edited by Worton, 1995)
==References==
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{{University College London}}
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