New Year Honours 2025
Shahina Pardhan OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Founding Director • Vision and Eye Research Institute
“For services to Optometry and Preventing Blindness.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
For services to Optometry and Preventing Blindness.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2025- Role at the time
- Founding Director, Vision and Eye Research Institute
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- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
“For services to Optometry and Preventing Blindness.”
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How common is this award?
The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 288 times in the New Year Honours List 2025 — about 19% of the list.
In their area
61 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Cambridgeshire.
What organisation were they with?
Founding Director, Vision and Eye Research Institute.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2025
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2025). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2024.
Location (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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