New Year’s Honours 2019

Members of the University have been recognised in the New Year's Honours list for 2019. Alexander Halliday FRS , Visiting Professor of Geochemistry at the Department of Earth Sciences and recently Head of Oxford's Mathematical Physical and Life Sciences Division, is knighted for services to science and innovation. Professor Richard Hobbs , Head of the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences and Director of the National Institute for Health Research School for Primary Care Research, is appointed CBE for services to medical research. Professor Jane Armitage , Professor of Clinical Trials and Epidemiology at the MRC Population Health Research Unit at the University of Oxford, is appointed OBE for services to medical research. Professor Helen Margetts , Professor of Society and the Internet and lately Director of the Oxford Internet Institute, is appointed OBE for services to social and political science. She is also a Professorial Fellow of Mansfield College and a Turing Fellow and Director of the Public Policy Programme at the Alan Turing Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. From 2011 to 2018, she was Director of the Oxford Internet Institute.