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ESRC’s Celebrating Impact Prize is open for applications

The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize is an annual opportunity to recognise and reward ESRC-supported researchers who have created or enabled outstanding impact.

The Prize is open to current and previous ESRC-supported researchers*, including doctoral students, and there are five competition categories this year:

  • Outstanding Business and Enterprise Impact
  • Outstanding Public Policy Impact
  • Outstanding Societal Impact
  • Outstanding International Impact
  • Outstanding Early Career Impact

*ESRC have also opened eligibility to apply to social science researchers that have been funded by another UKRI Council through an eligible programme of interdisciplinary research where ESRC has been a partner on the programme.

All finalists have a film professionally made about their work and impact, and winners are awarded £10,000 to spend on further knowledge exchange, public engagement or other impact related activities.

Past Southampton winners have been -:

Professor Neil Wrigley, Breathing life into town centres (2014)

Dr Denise Baden, Cutting carbon footprints in the service sector (2018)

ESRC Centre for Population Change (2020)

Dr Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Geospatial analysis for Ghanaian maternal healthcare delivery and international policy (2022)

Key dates:

  • Applications close: 16:00 UK time on 22 February 2024      
  • Interviews for shortlisted candidates: 20-22 May 2024
  • Media Training for Finalists: w/c 1 & 8 July 2024
  • Awards ceremony: November 2024 (date TBC)

For further details, including application guidelines, please visit the ESRC’s Celebrating Impact Prize web pages.

For any enquiries please contact [email protected]
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