{"id":28040,"date":"2026-01-02T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T09:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/?p=28040"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T16:41:07","slug":"ous-professor-teresa-cremin-awarded-cbe-for-services-to-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/around-ou\/university-news\/ous-professor-teresa-cremin-awarded-cbe-for-services-to-education\/","title":{"rendered":"OU\u2019s Professor Teresa Cremin awarded CBE for \u2018services to education\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Teresa Cremin, Co-Director of The Open University\u2019s Literacy and Social Justice Centre,\u00a0has been awarded a CBE for \u2018services to education\u2019 in the New Year Honours list announced by the King.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Cremin\u00a0initiated\u00a0the OU\u2019s\u00a0highly successful\u00a0\u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ourfp.org\/\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Reading for Pleasure\u2019<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Research and Practice Coalition\u00a0that works with organisations,\u00a0schools,\u00a0policy makers, and many others to\u00a0impact\u00a0positively on children\u2019s life chances through reading.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Reading for Pleasure\u00a0Coalition\u00a0draws on decades of\u00a0OU\u00a0research, and was co-created in 2017 with and for teachers, student teachers,\u00a0librarians\u00a0and all those interested in developing the\u00a0beneficial\u00a0habit of reading in\u00a0the\u00a0young.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The OU\u2019s Reading for Pleasure\u00a0Research and Practice\u00a0Coalition\u00a0has:<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Pioneered and supported\u00a0over\u00a0600 \u2018Teachers and Reading Groups\u2019 across the UK\u00a0and abroad\u00a0in partnership with the\u00a0UK Literacy Association. This\u00a0has\u00a0involved\u00a0approximately\u00a09,000\u00a0members, who collectively teach\u00a0over 2\u00a0million\u00a0pupils.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Enabled\u00a0nearly 450\u00a0schools\u00a0to\u00a0graduate from the Reading Schools Programme,\u00a0developing\u00a0recreational reading throughout\u00a0school communities.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Created the Teachers Reading Challenge\u00a0with The Reading Agency, with\u00a0nearly\u00a010,000\u00a0teachers\u00a0participating,\u00a0setting\u00a0their own\u00a0goals\u00a0and sharing\u00a0their love of reading.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li aria-setsize=\"-1\" data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-list-defn-props=\"{&quot;335552541&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559991&quot;:360,&quot;469769226&quot;:&quot;Symbol&quot;,&quot;469769242&quot;:[8226],&quot;469777803&quot;:&quot;left&quot;,&quot;469777804&quot;:&quot;\uf0b7&quot;,&quot;469777815&quot;:&quot;hybridMultilevel&quot;}\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Introduced\u00a0a national\u00a0Reading for Pleasure Student Ambassadors\u00a0Scheme, for trainee teachers\u00a0with over 230\u00a0Ambassadors since 2021.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Teresa Cremin, Co-Director of The Open University\u2019s Literacy and Social Justice Centre, said:\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cI am extremely humbled to receive such an honour.\u00a0But this\u00a0isn\u2019t\u00a0just\u00a0for me, it\u00a0reflects the work of everyone involved in our\u00a0Reading for Pleasure movement.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThis is for\u00a0the\u00a0teachers\u00a0who\u00a0tailor their book\u00a0recommendations to\u00a0children they know well\u00a0personally,\u00a0and\u00a0with\u00a0whom\u00a0they connect as fellow readers.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0for\u00a0the\u00a0head teachers, librarians, teaching assistants and\u00a0third sector colleagues\u00a0who create classrooms full of the joy that reading can bring and\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0for my OU colleagues and our partners who believe passionately in the\u00a0power\u00a0of Reading for Pleasure as a\u00a0potent\u00a0tool for social justice.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cThank you\u00a0&#8211; each one of you\u00a0&#8211; you are making a difference.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Professor Klaus-Dieter\u00a0Rossade, Executive Dean for the Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) at The Open University, said:<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cIt\u2019s\u202fhard to think of a project or programme that epitomises more the spirit of The Open University than Reading for Pleasure. This is the\u202fvery best\u202fof OU research, leading the way in\u202fshaping\u202fnational policy\u202fand creating practice in classrooms that can inspire any child regardless of background or circumstance to read for pleasure.\u202f<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u201cUnder Teresa\u2019s leadership, Reading for Pleasure has inspired tens of thousands of professionals,\u202fparents\u202fand carers to\u202fchampion reading as one of the most powerful social justice tools there is. Teresa is a credit to The Open University, and we are all extremely proud that she has been recognised for her outstanding contribution to education in this way.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Teresa Cremin, Co-Director of The Open University\u2019s Literacy and Social Justice Centre,\u00a0has been awarded a CBE for \u2018services to education\u2019 in the New Year Honours list announced by the King.\u00a0 Professor Cremin\u00a0initiated\u00a0the OU\u2019s\u00a0highly successful\u00a0\u2018Reading for Pleasure\u2019\u00a0Research and Practice Coalition\u00a0that works with organisations,\u00a0schools,\u00a0policy makers, and many others to\u00a0impact\u00a0positively on children\u2019s life chances through reading.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":28044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1525,1643,1833],"class_list":["post-28040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-university-news","tag-news-home","tag-ou-news","tag-professor-teresa-cremin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28042,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28040\/revisions\/28042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}