Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) Award for Music for outstanding achievements in the Indian classical and progressive world music scenes. Asteroid 292872 Anoushankar, discovered by Italian amateur astronomer Silvano Casulli, was named in her honour. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 12 January 2017 (). In 2018 she won the 3rd Eastern Eye Arts, Culture & Theatre Awards (ACTA) for the score to 1928 BFI film ‘Shiraz’. In July 2021 she received the Honorary Membership of the Royal Academy of Music (Hon RAM). In November 2020 she was nominated for the RTS (Royal Television Society) Craft & Design Awards 2020 for the music she and Alex Heffes composed for A Suitable Boy, A Lookout Point Production for BBC One. In 2021 she was nominated for a seventh Grammy in the Best World Music Category for her album "Love Letters". In 2021 she was nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for 'A Suitable Boy' Score. In 2023 she became the inaugural Visiting Professor of Music Business at the University of Oxford's Faculty of Music. Activism Shankar is an activist working with multiple causes and charitable organisations, in particular supporting women and refugees; she is also an advocate for animal rights. One Billion Rising In 2013, responding to the horrific gang-rape of a young girl in Delhi, whom the Indian media referred to as Nirbhaya, Shankar threw her weight behind an online campaign One Billion Rising on Change.org, demanding an end to crime against women. As part of the campaign, she released a video in which she revealed she had been sexually abused for many years as a child. UNHCR – The UN Refugee Agency In 2018 she joined musicians, actors and artists such as Patrick Stewart, Peter Capaldi, Vivienne Westwood, Anish Kapoor, The Kaiser Chiefs and many others in a call to urge MPs to attend the Refugees Family Reunion Bill and ensure refugee families torn apart by war and conflict are reunited. Help Refugees Shankar is one of the faces of the Help Refugees campaign to raise funds and awareness for the refugee crisis worldwide. The Circle NGO Shankar has joined the charity, founded by Annie Lennox in 2008, working to achieve equality for women and girls across the world. The F-List In 2020 Shankar was announced as the inaugural President of the F-List: a UK database created to help bridge the gender-gap in