They are also awarded honorary research associate status at a university. (schoolsweek.co.uk)
In the aforementioned article, Virginia Thorley, a lactation consultant and honorary research fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia, worries about the perils of «misleading» mothers, in regards to promoting «breast - milk feeding as identical to breastfeeding.» (lactationconsultantresources.com)
In 2016, aged 102, he won a battle to keep working on campus at Perth's Edith Cowan University, where he was an unpaid honorary research associate. (bbc.com)