The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize is now in its 12th year.
The prize is an annual opportunity to recognise the success of ESRC-funded researchers in achieving and enabling outstanding economic or societal impact from their research.
In 2024, ESRC will award prizes for:
- Outstanding Business and Enterprise Impact
- Outstanding Early Career Impact
- Outstanding International Impact
- Outstanding Public Policy Impact
- Outstanding Societal Impact
Remarkable achievements
ESRC Executive Chair Stian Westlake said:
The Celebrating Impact Prize is the Economic and Social Research Council’s way of recognising the remarkable achievements of the UK’s outstanding economists and social scientists.
These researchers have made valuable contributions in many fields, from reducing the impact on children of parental conflict to unveiling the corporate malfeasance involved in the Post Office scandal.
They have helped to ensure people’s legal and human rights are better protected, while showing us that there may be new and better ways of organising our working lives.
I am proud that the Economic and Social Research Council has funded these valuable projects, and that we have the opportunity to celebrate the significant impact achieved.
£10,000 prize
All finalists will have a film made about their work and its impact and have attended media training.
Winners are awarded £10,000 to spend on further knowledge exchange, public engagement or other communications activities.
Awarding the prizes
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at the Royal Society in London on 20 November 2024.
Read more about the Celebrating Impact Prize.
Further information
2024 Celebrating Impact Prize finalists
Team application: The Centre for Child Protection, University of Kent
Entrants:
- Dr Tracee Green, University of Kent
- Dr Aravinda Kosaraju, University of Kent
- Emma Soutar, University of Kent
Project title: Integrating a trauma informed approach to investigating child sexual exploitation
Professor Charlotte O’Brien, University of York
Project title: Supporting strategic litigation to secure EU nationals’ post-Brexit rights
Team application: Digit working time reduction team
Entrants:
- Professor Brendan Burchell, University of Cambridge
- Dr David Frayne, University of Salford
Project title: Improving productivity and wellbeing with a four-day working week
Professor Gordon Harold, University of Cambridge
Project title: Reducing parental conflict to improve outcomes for children
Professor Neil Stewart, University of Warwick
Project title: Informing the financial conduct authority’s measures to help consumers take better control of their spending
Team application: OSR4Rights research group
Entrants:
- Professor Yvonne McDermott Rees, Swansea University
- Dr Daragh Murray, Queen Mary University of London
- Dr Phil Bartie, Heriot-Watt University
- Dr Alexa Koenig, University of California, Berkeley
- Dr Riza Batista-Navarro, The University of Manchester
- Sam Dubberley, Human Rights Watch
- Dave Mateer, HM Software
Project title: Strengthening the use of open source research in human rights investigations
Team application: The Post Office Scandal Project
Entrants:
- Professor Richard Moorhead, University of Exeter
- Dr Karen Nokes, University College London
- Dr Rebecca Helm, University of Exeter
- Dr Sally Day, University of Exeter
- Paul Gilbert, LBC Wise Counsel
Project title: The Post Office Scandal: lawyers’ ethics and ruined lives
Dr Timo Leiter, London School of Economics and Political Science
Project title: Better prepared: new global targets strengthen climate adaptation and resilience
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