Beatrix Campbell - Honours and Citations

Honours and Citations

Campbell has received several citations and awards from British universities. She is an Honorary Doctor of Letters at Salford University, an Honorary Doctor of Letters at Oxford Brookes University and an Honorary Doctor of Letters at the Open University. She was awarded a Simon Fellowship from Manchester University.

Her journalism has gained several awards both for Campbell’s books and newspaper articles. She was awarded the Cheltenham Literature Festival Prize in 1984 for her book Wigan Pier Revisited and the Fawcett Society Prize for her book The Iron Ladies. Campbell was named Campaigning Journalist of the Year by the 300 Group, an initiative to get more women into Parliament founded by Lesley Abdela, and later involving Elizabeth Vallance and Shirley Williams. Her Dispatches documentary "Listen to the Children" resulted in her receiving the Independent Television Producers First Time Producers award.

In June 2009 Campbell was made an OBE. She argued that "by clinging to symbols and rituals that belong to a cruel imperial order the government compromises the gonged" but defended herself on the grounds "getting gonged confers recognition of 'citizens' contributions' to a good society – in my case equality – and the gesture affirms our necessity; the radicals – not the royalists – are the best of the British".