{"id":5603,"date":"2026-02-13T17:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/?p=5603"},"modified":"2026-02-13T17:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:32:07","slug":"ellie-goulding-amongst-alumni-recognised-in-kings-new-years-honours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2026\/02\/13\/ellie-goulding-amongst-alumni-recognised-in-kings-new-years-honours\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellie Goulding amongst alumni recognised in King\u2019s New Years Honours"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Members of the University of Kent community have been recognised in the 2026 New Year\u2019s Honours list.<\/h3>\n<p>Those honoured include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellie Goulding (<\/strong><strong>Drama and Theatre Studies, 2006) <\/strong>Singer-songwriter and UN Goodwill and Environmental Programme Ambassador was awarded an MBE for services to Biodiversity and the Climate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sajid Varda (<\/strong><strong>BA Accounting and Finance, 1993)<\/strong> Founder and Chief Executive Officer, UK Muslim Film and Muslim International Film Festival was awarded an OBE for services to Diversity and Inclusion in the Film and Television Industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Comfort Ero (<\/strong><strong>MA International Relations, 1992)<\/strong> President and Chief Executive Officer, International Crisis Group was awarded a CMG for services to Crisis Response and Conflict Prevention<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jayne Ozanne (<\/strong><strong>Honorary Degree, 2024) <\/strong>Founder and Director, Ozanne Foundation was awarded an OBE or services to Religion and the LGBTQ+ Community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the University of Kent community have been recognised in the 2026 New Year\u2019s Honours list. Those honoured include: Ellie Goulding (Drama and Theatre &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/2026\/02\/13\/ellie-goulding-amongst-alumni-recognised-in-kings-new-years-honours\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80151,"featured_media":5604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[118124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5603"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5606,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5603\/revisions\/5606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}