Top New Year Honours for UCL academics and alumni

Three UCL academics and three alumni have been awarded honours in the New Year's Honours including a knighthood and a dame. The honours have gone to Professor Terence John Stephenson, UCL Professor of Child Health; Professor Tim Briggs, professor of orthopaedic surgery; Professor Katharine Carruthers, Director of UCL's IOE Confucius Institute; Professor Mark Miodownik, a pioneer in materials science; UCL alumni Miss Clare Lucy Marx, the first woman to be president of the Royal College of Surgeons; Professor Robin Lovell-Badge, a honorary UCL professor in biosciences; and Demis Hassabis, a UCL PhD alumni and founder of Deep Mind, bought by Google for £400m. Professor Terence John Stephenson , a consultant paediatrician and chair of the General Medical Council (GMC) from 2015 to 2018, has been knighted for services to healthcare and children's health services. He is currently the Nuffield Professor of Child Health at UCL. He was formerly Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges for 2012-2014 and President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health 2009-2012. He served as Chair of Scientific Committee, European Paediatric Association 2013-15 and was a member of the Board of Trustees, National Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children 2011-14. He has been elected an honorary Fellow of ten colleges or academies, in the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong and Australia.