The Director’s Awards are part of the Festival of Doctoral Research which recognises and celebrates exceptional achievements and contributions of the University’s doctoral researchers.
The annual Director’s Awards were presented at the Doctoral College Awards Ceremony on Tuesday 30 June 2020, by Professor Chris Howls, Director of the Doctoral College.
Congratulations to all the nominees and winners!
The Winners
Citizenship/Community
For an exceptional contribution to the PGR or wider University community
- Senta Jantzen (Scholl) (Electronics & Computer Science) - For providing exceptional support for her peer community and mentoring of MSc students.
- Jodie Ackland & Jay James (Clinical & Experimental Sciences) - For supporting their peer community including their PGR buddy system, and for their work with Pint of Science.
- Nicholas Hillier (Electronics & Computer Science) - For supporting his peer community, offering pastoral support and representing PGRs at a University level.
Education
Recognising an exceptional contribution to teaching and learning
- Noriko Suzuki Bosco (Winchester School of Art) - For her work to inspire students to take a new perspective on libraries, library books and library ephemera by turning old books into works of art for display within the WSA library.
Enterprise
Recognising success or an exceptional trajectory towards e.g. commercialisation, spin-out, consultancy.
- Amey Kansara (Southampton Business School) - For working with his CASE partner to implement his research on left digit bias to detect financial traders at risk of making substantial losses.
Public Engagement and Outreach
For an exceptional contribution to research group, discipline, Faculty, of University engagement/outreach initiatives.
- Carla Wiggs (Humanities) - For a wide range of outreach activities she has undertaken to widen participation in HE.
- Kaveri Mayra (Social Statistics & Demography) - For advocating at an international level for respectful maternity care.
- Ewan Fraser (Electronics & Computer Science) - For leading a team of PGRs to deliver an outreach programme around the UK.
- Teresa Baron (Humanities) - For her work to engage the public with academic work through popular literature, and an awareness raising project on sex education.
- Charlotte Unruh (Humanities) - For her outreach work on public health and climate justice, and science communication work on food security.