New Year Honour for Law Professor
An academic in the University’s Law School has been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
Susan McVie, Professor of Quantitative Criminology, has been made an OBE.
Her award is given in recognition of services to social services.
Youth crime expert
Professor McVie is the Director of the Applied Quantitative Methods Network (AQMeN) in Scotland, a collaborative network of social scientists which provides advanced training and promotes knowledge exchange.
She is also co-Director of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime. The study – which has been based at the University since 1998 – examines the pathways into and out of offending amongst a group of more than 4,000 young people in Edinburgh.
Further honours
Professor McVie is one of three University academics to be conferred with an honour this year.
Cait MacPhee, Professor of Biological Physics, has been made a CBE in recognition of services to women in Physics.
Joanna Wardlaw, Professor of Applied Neuroimaging, has been made a CBE for her services to neuroimaging and clinical science.
Professor Wardlaw is the Director of the Brain Research Imaging Centre in the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University and is an honorary consultant neuroradiologist at NHS Lothian.
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Professor Susan McVie receives New Years Honour