- Scottish national Knowledge Exchange Champion, 2022
- Chatterton Prize Lecturer, British Academy
- Royal Society of Edinburgh BP Humanities Prize (outstanding Scottish humanities academic under 40)
- Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow Medal
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
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 (23-24), Irvine Burns Club

