SIX people from Oxfordshire have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2022.
Announced this morning, five people have been awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) and the sixth has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM).
From coronavirus research and services to science, to founding a food bank and taking on every Olympic sport for charity, here are the Oxfordshire people awarded this year…
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Charlotte Deane, former deputy executive chair of UK Research and Innovation, has been awarded an OBE for her services to coronavirus research.
The 47-year-old from Oxford led the design, coordination, and implementation of the “rapid response call” for projects addressing the issues that arose from the pandemic.
She held the role for two years and four months as well as being the covid-response director for almost two years from December 2021.
Her new role is currently as chief scientist biologics at Exscientia, a pharmaceutical company based at Oxford Science Park, where she has worked since January.
Robert McGreevy, director of the ISIS Neutron and Muon Source at the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and is the current chair of the League of Advanced European Neutron Sources (LENS), has been awarded an OBE for his services to science.
The 65-year-old from Oxford contributed to advances in neutron scattering science and authored more than 200 research papers as part of Oxford University.
He also pioneered the Reverse Monte Carlo method of structural modelling which has been cited in over 2000 published papers.
He has been in his current role for almost 10 years. He received his PhD from Oxford University and was a Royal Society research fellow and lecturer there until 1992.
Prudence Dailey, former chairman of The Prayer Book Society, which promotes the continued use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, has been awarded an MBE for her services to The Book of Common Prayer.
She has grown the society after the last three decades including introducing a bursary scheme as well as a prayer books for prisoner’s scheme.
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Ms Dailey also oversaw the appointment of the society’s first churches and clergy co-ordinator, who has successfully built relationships with clergy, ordinands and theological colleges.
She stepped down as chairman in 2019 and was one of the society’s first trustees when it became a limited company in 2003.
Stuart Bates and Charlotte Nichols have been an awarded an OBE for their services to the Motor Neurone Disease Association after co-founding Spennylympics.
Mr Bates, 52, a window cleaner, and Charlotte Nichols, 22, a student doctor from Abingdon, completed all 80 Olympic events across the 17 days that coincided with the Tokyo games (July 23 – August 8 2021), to mark the 10-year anniversary of Mr Bates losing his brother, Spencer - known as Spenny - to motor neurone disease.
They branded this event ‘the Spennylympics’ and the pair raised £180,000 for the charity. Events included a marathon, a 240km cycle, a 10km swim plus 10m platform diving.
Janet Ray, who set up the Bicester Food Bank in 2006, has been awarded a BEM for her services to the community.
After founding the food bank, she recruited people to help and spread awareness of the service on radio and TV helping her raise £250,000.
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She has also been providing meals on Christmas day after spending Christmas Eve preparing the food.
The food bank, based in Market Place, now supports between 2,500 and 3,000 people per year.
Speaking at the 10-year-anniversary of the bank, Ms Ray said: “I am really glad to have been going for ten years and we are here to help people and talk about how to cook things."
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This story was written by Gee Harland, she joined the team in 2022 as a senior multimedia reporter.
Gee covers Wallingford and Didcot.
Get in touch with her by emailing: Gee.harland@newsquest.co.uk
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