A number of prominent social scientists and ESRC grant holders have been honoured in the New Year Honours list. We are pleased to offer our congratulations to everyone honoured.

Knights Bachelor - Knighthoods

	Professor Ian David Diamond, FBA FRSE Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen Former Chief Executive of ESRC For services to Social Science and Higher Education
	Professor Simon Charles Wessely Vice Dean in Academic Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London ESRC grant holder For services to Military Healthcare and to Psychological Medicine

Commanders of the Order of the British Empire

	Professor John Richard Britton Honorary Consultant in Respiratory Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies; ESRC grant holder For services to Respiratory Medicine
	Professor Judith Anne Freedman Professor of Taxation Law, University of Oxford ESRC grant holder For services to Tax Research

Officers of the Order of the British Empire

	Professor Ian Bateman Professor of Environmental Science and Economics, University of East Anglia ESRC grant holder For services to Environmental Science and Policy
	Professor Muriel Anita Robinson Vice-Chancellor, Bishop Grosseteste University ESRC seminar grant 2005-2007 For services to Higher Education
	Professor David John Hand Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College London ROPA grant 1996-1998 For services to Research and Innovation

Members of the Order of the British Empire

Professor Linda Woodhead Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University Director of the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society Programme (2007-2012) For services to Higher Education