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New Year Honours - Professor Stock, OBE

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DangerFrog · 30/12/2020 23:46

Just spotted this in the New Year Honours list:

Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Professor Kathleen Mary Linn Stock. Professor of Philosophy, University of Sussex. For services to Higher Education. (Lewes, East Sussex)

Excellent to see her getting some positive recognition!

www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/scotland/2778163/new-year-honours-all-the-incredible-people-recognised-in-the-2021-list/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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carlaCox · 31/12/2020 15:37

Love that tweet. What a brilliant woman Prof Stock is.

EmbarrassingAdmissions · 31/12/2020 15:35

Well done to Prof. Stock.

QueenoftheAir · 31/12/2020 15:34

It's fabulous news, and also suggests something about government policy perhaps ...?

ThatIsNotMyUsername · 31/12/2020 15:34

I don’t know how she even got a job as an academic (maybe on the back of her dads name perhaps?). I can’t say I’ve ever read a tweet of hers that sounds insightful or intelligent.

GCAcademic · 31/12/2020 15:13

Sally Hines is probably the thickest person to ever have become an academic. She should get some sort of award for that, it's really quite an achievement.

Mollyollydolly · 31/12/2020 15:01

Sally Hines isn't happy. Honestly it's made my day Kathleen getting this award.

HecatesCats · 31/12/2020 14:51

Lovely tweet, marvellous woman

twitter.com/docstockk/status/1344617869129166855?s=21

New Year Honours - Professor Stock, OBE
SunsetBeetch · 31/12/2020 13:42

Ooh ouch! Grin

NotTerfNorCis · 31/12/2020 13:01

Wow brilliant!

talesofginza · 31/12/2020 13:00

Really heartening news to end the year - congratulations to Dr Stock!

PlantMam · 31/12/2020 12:58

Not a big fan of the honours system, but since it exists and there is no likelihood of that changing, I’m glad Doc Stock got one!

Poke in the eye for Rachel-Veronica-Ivy McKinnon and cronies (who will no doubt spin this to say it means KS is in support of slavery or some similar nonsense).

BernardBlackMissesLangCleg · 31/12/2020 12:53

What lovely news! Congratulations to professor Stock, very well deserved

RealityNotEssentialism · 31/12/2020 12:39

So happy about this. I work in academia and it’s awful at the moment with the woke mob jumping to get anyone they can reprimanded and excluded. The academic woke contingent are all furious at this of course. They are nearly all mediocre non-entities that are bitter that their career in academia isn’t going particularly well. Some of them are 7 years out of PhD and still doing crappy fixed term contracts so I can imagine that a lot of their anger is motivated by jealousy. Hilariously, they are accusing prof Stock of being an imperialist because she didn’t turn the award down. Didn’t hear this sort of shit when Ruth Hunt got one. Let them whine - losers.

GCAcademic · 31/12/2020 12:38

Is this then an indication that the government thinks that freedom of speech in academia is an important issue? Any chance they will actually do something about it beyond awarding well-deserved honours to Dr Stock? (Congratulations, by the way!) And no, I have no idea what they can do.

It was important enough to them to be in their election manifesto. But they need to do a lot more than they have done so far.

ChoosandChipsandSealingWax · 31/12/2020 12:35

This is extremely heartening! Wonderful news, and fills me with optimism for continuing the fight - and hopefully the roll back - in 2021. I would like to see Ann Sinnott get a gong in the 2021 honours...

allmywhat · 31/12/2020 12:02

Can't quite grasp the thought that someone in a position of power has recognised that campaigning for free speech in universities is a good thing! And a positive contribution to society!

I've been so used to living in the Upside Down that it feels almost baffling.

Is this then an indication that the government thinks that freedom of speech in academia is an important issue? Any chance they will actually do something about it beyond awarding well-deserved honours to Dr Stock? (Congratulations, by the way!) And no, I have no idea what they can do.

SciFiScream · 31/12/2020 11:50

Congratulations Professor Stock OBE. congratulations. Thank you.

ColourMagic · 31/12/2020 11:41

Oh that is such fantastic news! Congratulations Professor Stock OBE and thank you.

ErrolTheDragon · 31/12/2020 11:22

@RoyalCorgi

This is interesting. Isn't it relatively unusual for academics to receive honours - unless, say, they're top scientists? I don't know much about it but I find it surprising. "Services to education" - are they thinking of anything in particular? After all, you could argue that every university professor has given services to education, and there must be hundreds of them.

It's great news, of course, and means that people like Stonewall and co will find it harder to paint Professor Stock's views as outside the mainstream or not deserving of respect. But I'm also curious as to how it came about.

I searched for 'services to education', 72 hits. I've not looked at them all, some are more specific than that.
MoltenLasagne · 31/12/2020 11:20

Thanks Hecate - I'm always getting academic titles confused.

HecatesCats · 31/12/2020 11:15

@MoltenLasagne

Congratulations Professor Stock!

(Should that be Dr Stock? I never quite know)

Doc Stock is her Twitter handle, she's a Professor.
WarmHeyerette · 31/12/2020 11:14

Brilliant. Thanks Prof Stock for such brave and excellent work.

AnyOldPrion · 31/12/2020 11:05

This is excellent news. Is it in the public domain who nominated her? If it's the Tories I would say they're making a very clear mark in the sand doing this. She's only been a professor for two or three years, so it's not marking the end of a long career. It therefore looks to me that it's awarded because of the work she's been doing on academic freedoms and freedom of thought/speech. Am I being unduly optimistic?

I really hope not Gasp0de. I felt the same when I saw this.

Here’s an article about how the decisions are made.

www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18976709.new-years-honours-work-decides/

”This vetting process, to avoid bringing the system into “disrepute”, can involve the input of government departments, regulatory bodies, professional organisations, HM Revenue and Customs and the ACRO Criminal Records Office.”

Sounds like it’s relatively rigorous and it seems unlikely this is accidental.

MartiniDry · 31/12/2020 11:02

What marvellous news to end the year on. Congratulations Doc Stock!

Melroses · 31/12/2020 10:59

Brilliant