Winners
Outstanding impact in business
Winner: Professor Neil Wrigley, University of Southampton
Project: Breathing life into town centres
Research by Professor Neil Wrigley and colleagues has helped transform thinking on food retail development, its role in sustaining viable town centres and the future of UK high streets.
Outstanding impact in society
Winner: Professor Debra Myhill
Project: Improving literacy with grammar methods
A decade of research into the development of writing in school-aged children led by Professor Debra Myhill has shaped policy, improved children’s writing abilities and changed classroom practice.
Outstanding impact in public policy
Winner: Dr Clifford Stott, University of Leeds
Project: Policing crowds without force
New approaches to crowd psychology, based on research by Dr Clifford Stott, are helping police manage the potential for conflict in crowds while allowing people’s rights to protest.
Outstanding international impact
Winner: Dr Sabina Alkire, University of Oxford
Project: Reducing poverty
An innovative method for measuring poverty, developed by Dr Sabina Alkire and colleagues, is helping governments and organisations to design effective poverty-reduction programmes.
Outstanding early career impact
Winner: Hannah Lambie-Mumford, The University of Sheffield
Project: Food banks: emergency food provision and food poverty in the UK
Hannah Lambie-Mumford’s research on emergency food provision has provided policymakers, the charitable sector and media with evidence to inform the food poverty debate.
Lifetime achievement award
Winner: Professor Sir David Hendry, University of Oxford
Project: Celebrating a career of impact
Over five decades, Professor Hendry has developed macroeconomic models capturing how economies work, which are now embedded in software widely used by policymakers and decision-makers.
Finalists
Outstanding impact in society
Finalist: Dr Lorna Warren, The University of Sheffield
Project: Challenging ageism and sexism
Dr Lorna Warren developed a pioneering project in which older women explored their experience of ageing through art, providing the impetus for a campaign challenging ageism and sexism through a range of policy and school-based initiatives.
Outstanding impact in public policy
Finalist: Professor Shadd Maruna, Queen’s University Belfast
Project: Helping prisoners back into society
Professor Shadd Maruna and the team behind the Desistance Knowledge Exchange (DesKE) are building upon pioneering research into how offenders move away from crime, transforming the practice of offender rehabilitation in the UK and beyond.
Outstanding international impact
Finalist: Dr Stuart Basten, University of Oxford
Project: Predicting global population trends
In-depth research by Dr Stuart Basten into Asian fertility helped convince the United Nations to revise its influential forecasts on future population trends, with particularly large effects for Pacific Asian economies.
Outstanding early career impact
Finalist: Olivia Maynard, University of Bristol
Project: The science of plain tobacco packaging
Moves to impose plain packaging for cigarettes, including Australia’s 2012 legislation on standardised packaging and the recent UK commitment to do the same, have been strongly influenced by Olivia Maynard’s research into tobacco packaging.