Companion of Honour
Professor Peter Ware Higgs, Emeritus professor of theoretical physics, University of Edinburgh – for services to physics
Knighthoods
Professor Keith Burnett, CBE, vice-chancellor, University of Sheffield – for services to science and higher education
Professor Ian David Diamond, principal and vice-chancellor, University of Aberdeen – for services to social science and higher education
Professor David Neil Payne, CBE, director, Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton – for services to photonics research and applications
Professor Hew Francis Anthony Strachan, DL Chichele Professor of the history of war, All Souls Oxford – for services to the Ministry of Defence
Professor Simon Charles Wessely – for services to military healthcare and to psychological medicine
Damehood
Professor Carol Vivien Robinson, professor of physical chemistry, University of Oxford – for services to science and industry
CBE
Professor Josephine Dawn Ades, OBE, professor of art history and theory, University of Essex – for services to higher education and art history
Professor John Richard Britton, honorary consultant in respiratory medicine and professor of epidemiology, Nottinghamshire – for services to respiratory medicine
Professor Brian Cantor, vice-chancellor, University of York – for services to higher education
Dr David Douglas Cleevley, founding director, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge – for services to technology and innovation
Professor Joseph Stuart Elborn, professor of respiratory medicine and consultant physician, Queen's University Belfast – for services to healthcare in Northern Ireland
Nicholas Eustace Haddon Ferguson, chair, Courtauld Institute – for services to philanthropy and higher education
Professor Gary Ashley Ford, director, UK Stroke Research Network and clinical director, Newcastle University – for services to research in stroke medicine
Professor Judith Anne Freedman, professor of tax law, Oxford University – for services to tax research
Professor Joanna Dorothy Haigh, professor of atmospheric physics, Imperial College London – for services to physics
Professor Keith Gordon Hardin, director, Wound Healing Research Unit and director, TIME Institute, Cardiff University – for services to medicine and healthcare
Professor Richard Holdaway, director of RAL Space, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory – for services to science and technology
Professor Leslie Lars Iverson, chair, Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs – for services to pharmacology
Professor Francis Patrick Kelly, FRS professor of the mathematics of systems, University of Cambridge – for services to mathematical sciences
Professor Susan Mendus, Morrell Professor Emerita of Political Philosophy, University of York – for services to political science
OBE
Audrey Therese Ardern-Jones, associate lecturer, Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust – for services to cancer genetics nursing care
Professor Derek William Aviss, lately executive director and joint principal, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance – for services to higher and music education
Professor Winifred Mary Beard, professor of Classics, University of Cambridge – for services to classical scholarship
Helen Bowles, deputy CEO of GuildHE – for services to higher education
Professor John Butt Gardiner, professor of music, University of Glasgow – for services to music in Scotland
Simon Hew Dalrymple Fanshawe, chair of council, University of Sussex – for services to higher education
Professor Katherine Fenton, chief nurse, University College Hospitals London NHS Foundation Trust – for services to nursing
Professor Susan Elizabeth Gibson, professor of chemistry, Imperial College London – for services to chemistry and science education
Professor Brian Golding, scientific fellow at the Met Office – for services to weather forecasting and the prediction of hazardous weather
Professor David John Hand, senior research investigator, Imperial College London – for services to research and innovation
Professor David Kenneth Howe, Emeritus professor of social work, University of East Anglia – for services to vulnerable children and families
Dr Robert Charles Hubrecht, deputy scientific director, Universities Federation for Animal Welfare – for services to animal welfare
Dr Keith Thomas Ison, head of medical physics, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust – for leadership and development in healthcare science, medical physics, engineering and technology
Patricia Myer, registrar, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – for services to higher education
Caroline Neville, lately executive director, Skills Funding Agency – for services to further and higher education and the skills sector
Professor David Porteous, FRSE, professor of human genetics and molecular medicine, University of Edinburgh – for services to science
Professor James Ivor Prosser, personal chair in microbiology, University of Aberdeen – for services to environmental Science
Kathryn Elizabeth Riddle, chair, NHS North of England and pro-chancellor, University of Sheffield – for services to the NHS and to higher education
Professor Muriel Anita Robinson, vice-chancellor, Bishop Grosseteste University – for services to higher education.
Professor Janet Todd, president, Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge – for services to higher education and literary scholarship
Professor Richard David Wilding, professor and chair in supply chain strategy, Cranfield School of Management – for services to business
Professor John David Williams, lately professor of medicine, Cardiff University – for services to patients with renal disease in Wales
Professor Alan Richard Woodside, director, Transport and Road Assessment Centre, University of Ulster – for services to higher education and highway engineering in Northern Ireland
MBE
Professor Oscar Peter Buneman, FRS professor of database systems, University of Edinburgh – for services to data systems and computing
James Nicholas Clarke, banqueting operations coordinator,
Queen's University Belfast – for services to higher education in Northern Ireland
Christine Mary Goult, lately head of higher education, Cleveland College of Art and Design – for services to higher education
Inderjeet Hunjan, head of access and widening participation team, Leeds Metropolitan University – for services to higher education
Dr Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank, glaciologist – for services to exploration and research in the Antarctic
Patricia Usher, lately director of student and academic administration, University of Southampton – for services to higher education
For services to further education
Dame Christine Braddock, CBE, principal and chief executive, Birmingham Metropolitan College
Angela Mary O'Donoghue, CBE, lately principal, City of Sunderland College
Ahmed Choonara, OBE, board member, Network for Black Professionals
Theresa Ann Drowley, OBE, principal and chief executive officer, Redbridge College
Sunaina Mann, OBE, principal, North East Surrey College of Technology
Peter Alan Brown, MBE, lately assistant principal international, Chichester College
Barbara Evans, MBE, team leader for Learning Support Workers within the special educational needs curriculum, Carshalton College
Andrea Goodwill, MBE, course leader, Cleveland College of Art and Design
Ruth Pickersgill, MBE, lately diversity manager, Leicester College
Eric Twigger, MBE, lately chair of governors, Hull College
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