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PROFESSOR SIR ROGER JOWELL Professor Sir Roger Jowell died on


Christmas Day 2011. Professor Jowell,


with his colleague, Gerald Hoinville, was the founder-director of


the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen), now Britain’s largest social research institute, which he ran from 1969 until 2001. He established a ‘Qualitative Research Unit’ at the Social and Community Planning Research (SCPR). In the early 1990s, the centre’s most publicised work was the comprehensive National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles, prompted by a need to develop policies to combat Aids. Professor Jowell also made the


news with his British General Election Study which explained why the Conservatives had romped to victory in 1992 despite predictions of a Labour win. In 2001, with international colleagues, he set up the 34-nation European Social Survey (ESS) to study changing social values throughout Europe. In 2003 Professor Jowell moved with ESS to City University, where he became Research Professor and Founder Director of the Centre for Comparative Social Surveys. Professor Jowell was appointed CBE in 2001 and knighted in 2008.


PROFESSOR TONY COXON Professor Tony Coxon died on 7 February. Professor Coxon was the first director of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change (MISOC),


which was created in 1989 as the home of the British Household Panel Survey. He also worked as a consultant


for several ESRC-funded research projects and was part of the review team producing a comprehensive demographic review of the UK social sciences. Professor Coxon was well known for his work in quantitative methods teaching. Particular areas of research


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included occupations and perceptions of occupations; sexualities and sociology of sexual behaviour and homosexuality; and research methods relating to cognitive sociology. He was Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, and also Emeritus Professor of Sociological Research Methods, University of Wales (since 1988) and Professorial Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh (since 2002).


NEW YEAR HONOURS 2012 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire Professor Glynis Marie Breakwell, DL Vice-Chancellor, University of Bath; Chair of the ESRC Research Committee and Council member. For services to Higher Education. Commanders of the Order of the British Empire


Professor Karin Barber, Professor of African Cultural Anthropology, University of Birmingham; ESRC grant holder. For services to African Studies.


Professor Eileen Munro, Professor


of Social Policy, London School of Economics; ESRC seminar participant. For services to Children and Families. Professor Judith Petts, Dean of


the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, University of Southampton; ESRC grant holder. For services to Scientific Research. Officers of the Order of the British Empire Professor Dianne Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Reading; former member of the ESRC Research and Evaluation Committee and ESRC grant holder. For services to Scientific Research. Professor Ella Ritchie, Deputy Vice- Chancellor at Newcastle University; former member of the ESRC Training Board and ESRC grant holder. For services to Higher Education. Professor Peter Jennings Buckley, Professor of International Business, University of Leeds; ESRC grant holder. For services to Higher Education, International Business and Research. Professor Jean Golding, Emeritus Professor of Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, University of Bristol;


founder of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). For services to Medical Science. Members of the Order of the British Empire Professor Rhona Susan Johnston, Professor of Psychology, University of Hull; ESRC grant holder. For services to Education.


Professor Robert Walker, Professor


of Social Policy, University of Oxford; ESRC grant holder. For services to Social Policy Research.


DR SABINA LEONELLI The Global Young Academy is an organisation which selects 200 top early- career scientists around the globe to identify and voice science-related


issues of relevance to policy and society. Dr Leonelli, Senior Lecturer at the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis), has been chosen as one of those 200. According to the Academy, members are selected ‘for the excellence of their science and their commitment to service. Members serve for a four-year term. The Global Young Academy aims to empower young scientists, providing a rallying point for them to come together to address topics of global importance.


DR HELEN SIMPSON Dr Simpson from the Centre for Market and Public Organisation has been awarded a £70,000 Philip Leverhulme Prize. Prizes are awarded


annually to ‘outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study’. Dr Simpson has been awarded a prize for her research using new data on firms, which examines the reasons behind firms’ location decisions and the impact of these decisions on firm performance. The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the Will of the first Viscount Leverhulme. It is one of the largest all-subject providers of research funding in the UK.


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