Professor Val Braybrooks, dean and associate professor of the University of Lincoln’s Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Animal Sciences, has been awarded the MBE in the New Year’s honours list.
Braybooks has been recognised for her services to further education, higher education and the food industry.
Her career in teaching and management for the food and agricultural industries spans 30 years and she is widely credited with revitalising and raising the standards of Lincolnshire’s educational provision in these areas.
She led the development of the National Centre for Food Manufacturing, a unique employer and public sector partnership which has seen the transformation of Holbeach campus into a major national resource.
Braybrooks said: “I am proud and thrilled to receive this honour, and delighted that education in the food manufacturing and agricultural industries has been recognised in this way.
“I would like to thank everyone for the tremendous support given to the cause by so many, colleagues at university, employers and Lincolnshire County Council, East Midlands Development Agency and the many others who have contributed to taking forward education for Lincolnshire's key sectors in this way.
"Special thanks are due to our industry partners for their generosity, particularly the Processing and Packaging Machinery Association and its members, most notably Ishida Europe, whose support we have enjoyed since the conception of the project, and latterly to the employers that now support our work at Riseholme.''
Vice-chancellor professor Mary Stuart said: "This is well-deserved recognition for Val for the considerable creative approach she has taken to her engagement with the food industry over many years, ensuring the university has met the sector's education and training needs.”
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