text: On 18 July 2009 Bussell received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford. During the ceremony the university's public orator noted that she "adds to technical mastery, charm and imagination, in such a way that she seems to reveal the grace of her personality as well as the grace of movement… Moreover, she wants those who are perhaps put off by the grand portals of the Royal Opera House to enjoy the pleasures that ballet affords."
  In 2017 Bussell received an honorary doctorate from the Royal Conservatoire in Glasgow, Scotland.
  In June 2018 Bussell received an honorary Fellowship from Arts University Bournemouth alongside costume designer Jenny Beavan OBE, graphic designer Margaret Calvert OBE and director and screenwriter Edgar Wright. Bussell, had previously visited the university as a guest lecturer.
  Patronages
  Since 2012 Bussell has been the president of the Royal Academy of Dance
  Bussell has been campaign president of the Birmingham Royal Ballet's fund raising campaign since 2012. She is an ambassador for the giving programme of the New Zealand School of Dance, and is on the board of the Margot Fonteyn Foundation. She is the international patron of the Sydney Dance Company.
  She is a patron of the medical charities Borne, Sight for All and the Henry Spink Foundation.
  Personal life
  In 1997 Bussell married Australian banker Angus Forbes, in Cherwell, Oxfordshire.
  Originally, the couple lived in Kensington, moving to Sydney, Australia in 2008 and returning to London in July 2012. As of 2021, they live in Wimbledon.