Awards

• Hon. D. Litt in recognition of nationally leading position as historian, academic and public intellectual, Robert Gordon University, 2026
• Scottish national Knowledge Exchange Champion, 2022
• Chatterton Prize Lecturer, British Academy
• Royal Society of Edinburgh BP Humanities Prize (outstanding Scottish humanities academic under 40)
• University of Glasgow Lifetime Innovator, Arts & Humanities, 2026
• Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow Medal, 2026

Team awards:  Queen’s Anniversary Prize University of Glasgow Centre for Robert Burns Studies, 2023

Kelvin Hall: 11 prizes or shortlists (including RICS Tourism & Leisure award and Alzheimers Society shortlist); Universitas 21 Anchor Institution Case Study, 2017

Book of the Year: Scotland: the Global History (Spectator, CHOICE and others), Enlightenment in a Smart City (ASL), Culloden (History Today)

Nominations/Shortleets: Saltire Research Book of the Year, History Book of the Year, James Russell Lowell Prize, Orwell Prize, Wolfson Prize for the Public Understanding of History

Honorary Memberships: Association for Scottish Literature, Caledonian Club, Irvine Burns Club