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Professor Mike Gregory (pictured), Head of the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) and of the Manufacturing and Management Division of the Department of Engineering, has received a knighthood for services to technology.

After an early career in manufacturing engineering and management in the machine tool industry, Professor Gregory was the founder member of the Manufacturing Engineering Group at Cambridge, the forerunner of the IfM, which he established in 1998.

Professor Gregory said he was surprised and delighted to receive the honour. “I welcome this recognition of the important role that manufacturing industry plays – and will continue to play – in the economy,” he said.

Professor Caroline Humphrey, Fellow of King’s College and Emerita Sigrid Rausing Professor of Collaborative Anthropology, is made a DBE for services to scholarship.

Professor Barry Kemp, Fellow of Wolfson College and Senior Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, is made a CBE for services to archaeology, education and international relations.

Professor Ronald Laskey, Charles Darwin Professor of Animal Embryology, and lately director, Medical Research Council Cancer Cell Unit, is made a CBE for services to Science.

Professor Christopher Lowe, Fellow of Trinity College and Director of the Institute of Biotechnology, is made an OBE for services to science.

Professor Sheila Bird, senior research scientist at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit, within the Institute for Public Health, is made an OBE for services to social science.

Miss Margaret Irene Johnston. formerly administrator at the��Department of Earth Sciences, is made an MBE for services to higher education.