 He had also been elected to a fellowship at Clare College in 1969.Schofield served as president of the British Society for Population Studies from 1985 to 1987 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1970, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 1987 and a Fellow of the British Academy (the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences) in 1988.The University of Cambridge awarded him a higher doctorate in 2005.