The Queen's College Record 2023

NEWS FROM OLD MEMBERS, INCLUDING
APPOINTMENTS AND AWARDS
1951
John Hazel
Awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to education in the 2023 New
Year’s Honours.
Old Members’ Activities
1961
Vernon Bogdanor
Received a knighthood in the 2023 New Years Honours for services to Political
Science.
1963
Tariq Hyder
Ambassador (Retd) Hyder continued as Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the National
Defence University, Islamabad, writing on issues of topical, global and national
concern. In 2022/3 he published in The Nation, Lahore, two op-ed articles: the
first ‘Fireworks Lit the Sky’ on his involvement as Pakistan’s first ambassador to
Turkmenistan in facilitating the new nation’s Independence Day commemoration,
and in initiating the TAPI gas pipeline project through Afghanistan to Pakistan and
India; and secondly on ‘Turkish Elections and Pakistan’ focussing on a country with
ties to both Europe and Asia, including close historical, cultural, and defence ties to
Pakistan, and suggesting peaceful nuclear cooperation.
1967
Philip Schlesinger
Reappointed as Visiting Professor in Media and Communications at the LSE until
July 2025. Appointed as Creative PEC Fellow at the Creative Industries Policy and
Evidence Centre, Newcastle University and The Royal Society of Arts, London. Philip
is also a Professor in Cultural Theory at the University of Glasgow.
1968
Julian Jacobson
Performed a Beethoven Marathon in November 2022 at St John’s Church, Waterloo,
London. Julian played all 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas from memory, in one day.
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