Congratulations to three psychologists were recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Cary Cooper CBE, who is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University and an Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society, was knighted for his services to social science.

Professor Cooper has been chair of the UK’s Academy of Social Sciences, an umbrella body of 46 learned societies in the social sciences representing 88,000 social scientists, since 2009. In 2001 he was awarded a CBE for his contribution to occupational safety and health.

He is the author or editor of over 160 books (on occupational stress, women at work, and industrial and organisational psychology) and over 100 book chapters in books.  He has written over 400 scholarly articles for academic journals and is a frequent contributor to national newspapers, TV and radio.

Professor Nick Pidgeon from Cardiff University and Dr Janet Stockdale from the London School of Economics and Political Science were both awarded an OBE.

Profession Pidgeon, who is a Society member, received his honour for services to climate change awareness and energy security policy.  He is Professor of Environmental Psychology and Director of the Understanding Risk Research Group at Cardiff, where he is currently researching public responses to energy technologies, climate change risks and climate geoengineering.

Dr Stockdale received her honour for services to higher education. She is a Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and has a particular interest in social research design, methodological techniques and data analysis.

The neurobiologist Professor Colin Blakemore, who specialises in vision and the development of the brain, was also knighted in the Birthday Honours. The Professor of Neuroscience and Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study, University of London, and Emeritus Professor of Neuroscience at the University of Oxford, he has worked closely with the Society. We should like to congratulate him too.

You can read more about the recipients in the August issue of our monthly magazine The Psychologist.

Professor Cary Cooper was interviewed by the magazine in 2010 and Professor Nick Pidgeon has contributed an article on climate change.