Renowned Journalist, Kate Adie, Awarded an Honorary Degree
In 2014, we awarded Kate Adie with an honorary doctorate in recognition of her incredible contribution to society.
Dressed in a flak jacket, helmet and holding a microphone whilst crouching on frontlines, Kate Adie, one of the UK’s highest profile journalists, became an iconic figure associated with breaking news from some of the world’s most dangerous conflict zones.
Kate is particularly well known for her reporting of significant international events including the 1989 ÀÏ˾»úÊÓƵ uprising in China when she received a gunshot wound to her elbow whilst reporting events in Tiananmen Square. She has also reported on turbulence and conflicts across the world such as in Northern Ireland, the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, the first Gulf War, the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the 1997 uprising in Albania and the civil war in Sierra Leone in 2000.
Kate hung up her flak jacket and helmet in 2003 to become a freelance journalist. Since then, she has written a number of books, been a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’ and won numerous awards including three Royal Television Society awards, and an OBE in 1993.
As QMU is a leader in education for allied health professionals and the only provider of audiology education in Scotland, we were particularly keen to honour Kate given her work with the charity Hearing Link, which supports people with hearing impairment and deafness.
Kate was presented with a Degree of Doctor of Letters at our graduation ceremony held in Edinburgh’s Usher Hall in July 2014.
