Honours & Citations

  • OBE for services to equality
  • Queen’s Birthday Honours 2009
  • Honorary Doctor of Letters, Salford University
  • Honorary Doctor of Letters, Oxford Brookes University
  • Honorary Doctor of Letters, Open University
  • Simon Fellowship, Manchester University
  • Wigan Pier Revisited, Cheltenham Literature Festival Prize 1984
  • The Iron Ladies, Fawcett Society Prize
  • Campaigning Journalist of the Year, 300 Group
  • Listen to the Children, Dispatches documentary, Independent Television Producers First Time Producers Award