New Year’s Honours for Leeds

Peter Buckley, Professor of International Business, receives an OBE and Kath Hodgson, Director of Learning and Teaching Support, receives an MBE. Professor Buckley is Director of the Centre for International Business (CIBUL) and is recognised as a world-authority on international business. He has written 22 books, and has held visiting Professorships in universities around the world. Hodgson is a graduate of Leeds three times over, having completed all her higher-education qualifications (Cert Ed, MEd, PhD) at the university. After teaching middle school children for 20 years, she began working in the University's Planning Office in 1992 before moving into a learning and teaching role and going on to become head of the Teaching Quality Assurance Unit in 1998.

Acclaimed poet and former member of staff Geoffrey Hill receives a knighthood, as does alumnus and former staff member Professor Christopher Snowden, now Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey.

Alumna Stephanie Martin (PGDip Child Forensic Studies 2003) has been an awarded an MBE. With her husband Bill Kilgallon OBE, who served on University Council between 1992 and 2000 and is an honorary graduate, she has fostered some 100 children over the past 30 years.

Julie Moore (MA Healthcare Studies 1989), the Chief Executive of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, becomes a Dame for her services to healthcare.

Andrew Minchener (Chemistry 1974, DSc 1998) has received an OBE for his services to international science and to clean energy collaboration with China.