A PROFESSOR who resigned amid transphobia allegations is to receive an OBE.

Kathleen Stock stepped down from her role as a philosophy lecturer at the University of Sussex Last year.

The professor was repeatedly accused of transphobia for her views on gender identity, with a group of students actively campaigning for her to be fired.

The university said the institution would not tolerate threats to “academic freedoms”.

However, Prof Stock later announced she would be leaving her job after “an absolutely horrible time” – 18 years after joining the university staff.

Despite this, the 50-year-old is among a number of people set to be recognised with honours at Buckingham Palace.

Prof Stock is due to be made an OBE for services to higher education.

In an interview after resigning, Prof Stock suggested some academics may have fuelled student protests against her.

She said: “I don’t know that the student activity would be there if the colleague activity already hadn’t been there.

“There’s a small group of people who are absolutely opposed to the sorts of things I say and instead of getting involved in arguing with me using reason, evidence, the traditional university methods, they tell their students in lectures that I pose a harm to trans students.

“Or they go on to Twitter and say that I’m a bigot. So thus, creating an atmosphere in which the students then become much more extreme and much more kind of empowered to do what they did.

“I’m not saying that they intentionally set out to cause this end point, but I do think that academics are treated by students as role models quite often.”

Actress Dame Joanna Lumley and Olympic swimmer Tom Dean are among others who will be recognised.

Absolutely Fabulous star Dame Joanna, known for playing Patsy Stone in the sitcom, will be appointed a dame commander for services to drama, entertainment and charitable causes.

Meanwhile, Dean, 22, is expected to pick up his MBE for services to swimming.

Other prominent sportsmen being made MBEs are Dylan Fletcher-Scott for services to sailing and Thomas McEwen for services to equestrianism.