Stuart Parkin has received several awards including:
- American Physical Society International Prize for New Materials (1994);
- Europhysics Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Physics (1997);
- 1999-2000 American Institute of Physics (AIP) Prize for Industrial Application of Physics;
- IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award (2008); Dresden Barkhausen Award (2009);
- IUPAP Magnetism Prize and Neel Medal (2009);
- David Adler Lectureship Award, American Physical Society (2012);
- Von Hippel Award, Materials Research Society (2012);
- Swan Medal, Institute of Physics (London) (2013);
- and the Millennium Technology Prize, Technology Academy Finland (2014).
