[Public-engagement] ANNOUNCEMENT: Policy and Public Engagement Award Winners!

[Br-The-Institute]

Good Afternoon,

We are delighted to announce the winners and shortlisted candidates for the Institute's annual awards. We received some outstanding nominations and we want to thank everyone for the time it took to send us their proposals. It was fantastic to hear about some of the impressive work going on across all three of our campuses to engage with the public and achieve policy impact.

With special thanks to our panel of judges:
Lou Rudkin, Head of Communications @ Institute for Mental Health,
Prof Susan Anderson, Prof in Anatomy @ School of Life Sciences,
Prof Andrew Mumford Prof of War Studies @ School of Politics and International Relations,
Stephen Meek, Director @ Institute for Policy and Engagement.

So, without further ado! The Winners are...

Best Policy Impact Initiative
Winner: Horizon Unbiased Project Team led by Dr Elvira Perez Vallejos for their work to support informed policy making in a digital world.
Shortlisted: Prof Gary Rawnsley, Dr Lisa Yon and Prof Peter Chapman

Best Public Engagement Initiative
Winner: Dr Helen McCabe and the Survivor Voices, Stories and Images Team for their work empowering survivors of human trafficking to share their stories with the world.
Shortlisted: Prof Christopher Gibins, Dr Ir. Fang Yenn Teo, Mr Yih Yoong Lip and Dr Heike Bartel

Rising Star (Policy Impact)
Winner: Dr Lorna Treanor for her work to support the development of an inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystem.
Shortlisted: Dr Ben Barton with the Judges' Special Recognition going to Dr Xuan Feng.

Rising Star (Public Engagement)
Winner: Dr Ulrike Kuchner for her work engaging the public with astronomy in creative ways, both locally and internationally.
Shortlisted: Dr Bavani Ramayah with the Judges' Special Recognition going to Dr Ben Pilgrim

Keystone Award
Winner: Deanne Hewson for her dedication and commitment to increasing participation in policy and engagement work across the Faculty of Engineering.
Shortlisted: NUBS China Executive Education Team

Special Award for Pandemic Response
Winner: Dr Ali Cheshmehzangi for his work on the city of Ningbo's resilience plan
Winner: The Pandemic Response Team led Jamie Thompson for their work to build the University of Nottingham's Covid-19 Testing Service.
Shortlisted: Prof Hywell Williams and Dr Joanne Stocks.

Please join us in congratulating our wonderful colleagues!

For now, we wish you a well deserved break, and a wonderful festive season!

Best wishes,
The Institute


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/public-engagement/attachments/20201215/cf04b37f/attachment.html>