Professor Roger James Goodman (SF 73-75) has been awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to Social Science in the New Year Honours 2024. 

Professor Goodman is a British social scientist and academic, specialising in Japanese studies. He is the Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies at the Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford, and the sixth Warden of St Antony's College, Oxford. Goodman became president of the Academy of Social Sciences in January 2020. He is the author, co-author, and editor of many books and has supervised over thirty successful doctoral dissertations in these fields since 1995. 

In an interview with St Anthony's college, Professor Goodman said: ‘In the past few years, the importance of high-quality social science research has come to be recognised in the UK as never before; I am delighted therefore that this award acknowledges the collective contribution of the community of social scientists in improving our understanding of the complex world we live in.’