Page 6 | New Year Honours - Professor Stock, OBE

DangerFrog · 2020-12-30T23:46:57+00:00

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

heathspeedwell · 31/12/2020 10:56

Congratulations Professor Stock and thank you for everything you do!

RufustheSniggeringReindeer · 31/12/2020 10:54

Great news

MoltenLasagne · 31/12/2020 10:53

Congratulations Professor Stock!

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

donquixotedelamancha · 31/12/2020 10:49

Great news. Much deserved.

boatyardblues · 31/12/2020 10:46

I played her YouTube talk on the ResPublica webinar about liberal feminism to my husband this morning after we saw this news. He agreed that she is an interesting speaker, very clear in her thinking and explanations and he enjoyed her talk. She cuts right through the BS. I’m pleased to hear about her OBE.

thinkingaboutLangCleg · 31/12/2020 10:40

Wonderful, wonderful news! A well-deserved honour for a truly brave and honourable woman.

JoodyBlue · 31/12/2020 10:38

That's brilliant news. Huge congratulations and thanks due to Professor Stock OBE

RozWatching · 31/12/2020 10:32

@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.

It has to be in recognition of her campaigning against the stifling of free expression in universities. Anyone could have nominated her, but it's hugely encouraging that the people who make the decisions agreed!

HecatesCats · 31/12/2020 10:20

@gardenbird48

Hugest congratulations to Professor Stock - maybe now in conversation with that chair of the GRA select committee (she was so rude and dismissive in her introductions of the gc panel I can’t be bothered to look up her name) - she could say ‘that’s Professor Stock OBE to you madam’.

I read her article on universities - it is absolutely shocking. One thing that struck me is that she mentioned stakeholders (in the corporate/financial sense) apparently putting pressure on the universities to take the line they are taking (anything deviating slightly from the narrow ideology is unacceptable and will be punished. I wonder which companies these stakeholders are.

Doc Stock has reshared her thread on the suppression of critical thought about gender ideology this morning. Well worth a read:

twitter.com/docstockk/status/1344525004973682689?s=21

BlueCatRedCat · 31/12/2020 10:06

*Happy New Year

BlueCatRedCat · 31/12/2020 10:05

Congrats to Doctor Stock!

Wokies are going to de-platform the Queen now. Happy newer, OJ & co

Get rid of tuition fees and the notion that students are clients/consumers who need to be pandered to and made to feel they are right/safe/unchallenged.

gardenbird48 · 31/12/2020 09:59

Hugest congratulations to Professor Stock - maybe now in conversation with that chair of the GRA select committee (she was so rude and dismissive in her introductions of the gc panel I can’t be bothered to look up her name) - she could say ‘that’s Professor Stock OBE to you madam’.

I read her article on universities - it is absolutely shocking. One thing that struck me is that she mentioned stakeholders (in the corporate/financial sense) apparently putting pressure on the universities to take the line they are taking (anything deviating slightly from the narrow ideology is unacceptable and will be punished. I wonder which companies these stakeholders are.

SeasonallySnowyPeasant · 31/12/2020 09:47

Fantastic news!

RoyalCorgi · 31/12/2020 09:46

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.

RozWatching · 31/12/2020 09:42

@Biscuitsanddoombar

Ha! And she’s using it as opportunity to call our gender woo ideology in universities. I love her

twitter.com/docstockk/status/1344525004973682689?s=21

Though dear Lord at the state of universities in this country! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Chilling and damning, and the examples she gives in that thread are just the tip of the iceberg.

"Aside: Observant readers will notice that nearly all the people described above have something in common. Hint: it’s not a shared gender identity. Further hint: it’s a thing that never makes difference, their critics say, and whose negligible effects shouldn't be tracked). 15/"

"Upshot: Stonewall doesn't belong in UK Universities (or schools, or gov departments, or local authorities, or judiciary, or police forces..) Once a great organisation, they’re now a threat to freedom of speech/ public understanding. Get them out stonewall.org.uk/diversity-champions-members /End."

Mnusernc · 31/12/2020 09:32

Wonderful news, would have been so much easier for her just to stay quiet and have an easy life. I hope she feels buoyed by this, we need her to carry on!

thereplycamefromanchorage · 31/12/2020 09:30

Fabulous - congratulations, Prof Stock!

Daughterofmabel · 31/12/2020 09:30

Great news

Imnobody4 · 31/12/2020 09:23

Congratulations Prof. This is such good news.

queenofknives · 31/12/2020 09:22

@ArabellaScott

Also props to Prof Stock for using the publicity to highlight the recent persecution of other female academics and some of the issues facing academia right now. Awesome.

That is fantastic.

RozWatching · 31/12/2020 09:19

Amazing. Congratulations, Professor Stock

SulisMinerva · 31/12/2020 09:18

That is very well-deserved. Congratulations!

teawamutu · 31/12/2020 09:16

Well deserved recognition, Doc!

Will this make it a bit harder for spiteful little blue haired twats to get her sanctioned for stating basic truths?

ArabellaScott · 31/12/2020 09:15

Also props to Prof Stock for using the publicity to highlight the recent persecution of other female academics and some of the issues facing academia right now. Awesome.

iguanadonna · 31/12/2020 09:13

Awesome