{"id":2143,"date":"2026-06-18T11:49:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T11:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:23:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:23:19","slug":"alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni receive recognition in King&#8217;s Birthday Honours 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One alumna and three honorary graduates of the University of Exeter received awards in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/the-kings-birthday-honours-list-2026\">2026 King&#8217;s Birthday Honours List<\/a> on Friday 12 June. As well as one alumnus who features in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpmc.govt.nz\/publications\/kings-birthday-honours-list-2026#mnzm\">King&#8217;s Birthday Honours List for New Zealand<\/a> (observed on Monday 1 June). We&#8217;re very proud of all the members of our community who have been recognised in this way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A huge congratulations to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/miles-gregory\/?skipRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dr Miles Gregory<\/a> (<em>MFA Staging Shakespeare, 2000<\/em>)\n<ul>\n<li>Co-founder, Creative Director and CEO of HyperCinema.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to theatre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peter-lord-b4242b13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Peter Lord CBE<\/a> (<em>Hon LLD, 2007<\/em>)\n<ul>\n<li>Co-Founder and Trustee, Aardman Animations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knighthood for services to the Animation Industry, the Creative Industries and to Charity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FDon_McCullin&amp;data=05%7C02%7CM.Myer%40exeter.ac.uk%7C5a0da12aa4464898f76108decd1a7b8e%7C912a5d77fb984eeeaf321334d8f04a53%7C0%7C0%7C639173710784360906%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=zvto2FXPkJ9ZN1RBvHG041g%2B%2Bo7EUK7eHIzIl9%2F3nZo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sir Donald McMullin CBE<\/a> (<em>Hon DLitt, 2017<\/em>)\n<ul>\n<li>Photojournalist.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Companion of Honour (CH) for services to Photojournalism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.salisburyjournal.co.uk\/news\/26191163.salisbury-woman-named-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Juliet Mosney<\/a> (<em>Education &#8211; Secondary &amp; PE, 1995<\/em>)\n<ul>\n<li>NHS and Care Volunteer Responder, Royal Voluntary Service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>BEM for Voluntary Service. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/david-sproxton-59294\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">David Sproxton CBE<\/a> (<em>Hon LLD, 2007<\/em>)\n<ul>\n<li>Co-Founder and Trustee, Aardman Animations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knighthood for services to the Animation Industry, the Creative Industries and to Charity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>One member of the University of Exeter academic community was also recognised for his work. Many congratulations to: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/richardmoorhead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Professor Richard Moorhead OBE<\/a>. Richard is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics at the University of Exeter and Professor of Law at Monash University. He received an OBE for services to Legal Ethics. You can read more about Professor Moorhead&#8217;s work via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.exeter.ac.uk\/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences\/obe-awarded-to-legal-expert-working-to-support-post-office-scandal-victims\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>If you&#8217;ve received an award, prize, or title recently do tag us on our social media channels, or let us know via <a href=\"mailto:alumni@exeter.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alumni@exeter.ac.uk<\/a>, as we always like to celebrate your successes and achievements.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One alumna and three honorary graduates of the University of Exeter received awards in the 2026 King&#8217;s Birthday Honours List on Friday 12 June. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":435,"featured_media":1325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[17],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alumni receive recognition in King&#039;s Birthday Honours 2026 - Alumni news<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alumni receive recognition in King&#039;s Birthday Honours 2026 - Alumni news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One alumna and three honorary graduates of the University of Exeter received awards in the 2026 King&#8217;s Birthday Honours List on Friday 12 June. As [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Alumni news\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-18T11:49:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-18T12:23:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/151\/2025\/06\/Exeter-Rock-cropped.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"930\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"500\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Megan Myer\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Megan Myer\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/\",\"name\":\"Alumni receive recognition in King's Birthday Honours 2026 - Alumni news\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/151\/2025\/06\/Exeter-Rock-cropped.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-18T11:49:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-06-18T12:23:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#\/schema\/person\/375bc43252512fe733f56462fc8feb23\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/151\/2025\/06\/Exeter-Rock-cropped.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/151\/2025\/06\/Exeter-Rock-cropped.png\",\"width\":930,\"height\":500},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Alumni receive recognition in King&#8217;s Birthday Honours 2026\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/\",\"name\":\"Alumni news\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#\/schema\/person\/375bc43252512fe733f56462fc8feb23\",\"name\":\"Megan Myer\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be1255e1f5a9fbaae4eea5552dedfa4c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be1255e1f5a9fbaae4eea5552dedfa4c?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Megan Myer\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/author\/mm816\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Alumni receive recognition in King's Birthday Honours 2026 - Alumni news","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Alumni receive recognition in King's Birthday Honours 2026 - Alumni news","og_description":"One alumna and three honorary graduates of the University of Exeter received awards in the 2026 King&#8217;s Birthday Honours List on Friday 12 June. As [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/","og_site_name":"Alumni news","article_published_time":"2026-06-18T11:49:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-06-18T12:23:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":930,"height":500,"url":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/151\/2025\/06\/Exeter-Rock-cropped.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Megan Myer","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Megan Myer","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/","url":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/","name":"Alumni receive recognition in King's Birthday Honours 2026 - Alumni news","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/151\/2025\/06\/Exeter-Rock-cropped.png","datePublished":"2026-06-18T11:49:31+00:00","dateModified":"2026-06-18T12:23:19+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#\/schema\/person\/375bc43252512fe733f56462fc8feb23"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/151\/2025\/06\/Exeter-Rock-cropped.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/151\/2025\/06\/Exeter-Rock-cropped.png","width":930,"height":500},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/2026\/06\/18\/alumni-receive-recognition-in-kings-birthday-honours-2026\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Alumni receive recognition in King&#8217;s Birthday Honours 2026"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/","name":"Alumni news","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#\/schema\/person\/375bc43252512fe733f56462fc8feb23","name":"Megan Myer","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be1255e1f5a9fbaae4eea5552dedfa4c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be1255e1f5a9fbaae4eea5552dedfa4c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Megan Myer"},"url":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/author\/mm816\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/151\/2025\/06\/Exeter-Rock-cropped.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/alumni-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}