2023 Research Awards – last chance to RSVP

Staff are invited to attend the 2023 Research Awards event on Tuesday 13 June which will showcase the shortlisted projects and announce the winner in each category. The Research Output Prizes will also be awarded at the event.

Hosted by Professor Parveen Yaqoob, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation, the event will take place from 13:45 - 17:00 in the Meadow Suite on Whiteknights campus. The event will conclude with afternoon tea and posters and is an ideal opportunity to find out what research is going on across the University and for networking.

If you would like to attend, please RSVP as soon as possible as spaces are limited.

The programme for the afternoon is:

13:45 Arrival

14:00 Showcase of Research Awards shortlisted entries and Research Output Prize winners

15:45 Awards ceremony: presentation of Research Awards winners and Research Output Prizes

16:15 Afternoon tea, networking and posters

17:00 Close

The 11 shortlisted entries in the 2023 Research Awards are:

External Collaboration and Partnerships

• Helen Bilton (Institute of Education) and Nicky McGirr, Anastasia Rattigan (Centre for Quality Support & Development): The PGCert Healthcare Education Team - working together to solve problems
• Naomi Flynn (Institute of Education): Bringing successful teaching for multilingual learners from the US to the UK
• Deepa Senapathi and Mike Garratt (Agriculture, Policy & Development): Empowering small holder communities to co-design ecological interventions to improve sustainability

Openness in Research

• Shovonlal Roy (Geography & Environmental Science): Open-access EO-derived novel ocean carbon products for climate studies and societal benefits
• Nicola Wilson (English Literature) and Helena Clarkson (University Museums and Special Collections Services): Virtual Volunteering: Transcribing publishing correspondence in the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP)

Public Engagement with Research

• Hannah Cloke, Liz Stephens and the Water@Reading research group (Geography & Environmental Science): The importance of imagination in saving lives from floods
• Duncan Garrow (Archaeology): World of Stonehenge
• Alice Mauchline and the Close the Gap project team (Agriculture, Policy & Development): Close the Gap

Research Impact

• Rita Fontinha and James Walker (International Business & Strategy): The four-day week: The pandemic and the evolution of flexible working
• Anna Macready (Agri-Food Economics and Marketing): EIT Food TrustTracker(R) Consumer Survey: Moving towards a more trusted food system
• Netta Weinstein (Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences): Building an inclusion and diversity training programme for policing based in empirically-informed motivational principles