Professor Newlands awarded the Colyer Gold Medal for research impact

The Royal College of Surgeons has awarded its prestigious Colyer Gold Medal to Professor Carrie Newlands for her considerable contributions to the profession and wider society through her research.

The Royal College's Faculty of Dental Surgery awarded the medal to Professor Newlands and Miss Daljit K Dhariwal from the University of Oxford, citing their most recent research that highlighted widespread sexual misconduct, including harassment, assault, and rape, within the UK surgical workforce. This study, published in the British Journal of Surgery, analysed responses from 1,434 participants, over half of whom were women. It found that 63.3% of women and 23.7% of men experienced sexual harassment from colleagues in the last five years.

We are immensely proud to have Carrie as a founding member of our School of Medicine here at the University of Surrey. Her wealth of experience in practice, teaching, and research will be invaluable to us as we look to train the next generation of doctors.

On behalf of everyone here at the University of Surrey, I want to offer Carrie our congratulations on receiving this honour. Professor Juliet Wright, Founding Dean of Medicine