Southampton Professor Maria Stokes has been awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) for services to physiotherapy research in the 2018 New Year Honours.
Professor Maria Stokes.
Professor Stokes, who joined the University in 2004, leads the University鈥檚 Active Living Technologies Research Group. Her research interests focus on musculoskeletal health, specifically in exercise to maintain healthy joints and mobility.
Professor Stokes鈥� research aims to optimise function and enable active living through multidisciplinary research into healthy ageing of the musculoskeletal system and physical management of musculoskeletal conditions. Her聽latest research will involve the first study of the effects of space flight on human muscle tone, thanks to funding from the UK Space Agency.
鈥淭hanks for all the good wishes on receiving this honour,鈥� said Professor Stokes. 鈥淪uch an achievement for research can only be accepted as part of a team, so I鈥檓 delighted to receive it on behalf of colleagues in the Active Living and Rehabilitation Research Group in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southampton and all our collaborators.”
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Joining Professor Stokes on the New Year Honours list is , former Director of ISVR and Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research and Enterprise) at the University, and more recently Chief Executive Officer of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
Southampton alumna (BA Spanish, 1979), joint founder of the (ATG) – Britain鈥檚 most successful theatre company – was made a Dame.
Another Southampton alumnus (BSc in Chemistry in 1978, then a PhD in 1981)聽has been made an Officer聽of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his contribution to national and international metrology. Dr. Bowsher is the Chief Executive of the , one of the University’s major research funders.
