On 19^th October 2016, the Academy of Social Sciences announced that it had conferred the award of Fellow on 84 leading social scientists, and Vanessa Munro was amongst them!

Fellows are recognised by the Academy after an extensive process of peer review for the excellence and impact of their work through the use of social science for public benefit.

Vanessa, who was nominated for the award by the Socio-Legal Studies Association, was described by the Academy as “the leading scholar of her generation in the socio-legal study of sexual offences.”