Excellence with impact awards
This award acknowledges university departments that are most active in embedding a culture that recognises the importance of economic and social impact alongside excellent research.
The competition ran from 1 December 2008 to 1 December 2010 with selected departments being monitored over this period.
Two prizes of £150,000 were awarded for:
- The department that has been most effective in introducing a significant culture change, which values impact as well as research excellence
- The department that best demonstrates the delivery of economic and social impact over the period
There was a runner-up prize of £25,000 in each category.
Winners 2011
The winners and runners up were announced at a business networking event in London with a speech and prize giving by Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts MP.
The winners and runners up are:
Greatest culture change
- Winner - University of Aberystwyth IBERS
- Runner up - University of Liverpool School of Biological Sciences
Greatest delivery of impact
- Winner - University of Dundee College of Life Sciences
- Runner up - Newcastle University Institute for Ageing and Health
Participating departments
- School of Biosciences - University of Birmingham (PDF 1.20MB)
- School of Biosciences - Cardiff University (PDF 569KB)
- College of Life Sciences - University of Dundee (PDF 373KB)
- School of Biosciences - University of Exeter (PDF 623KB)
- IBERS - Aberystwyth University (PDF 512KB)
- School of Biomedical and Health Sciences - King's College London (PDF 626KB)
- Africa College - University of Leeds (PDF 540KB)
- School of Biological Sciences - University of Liverpool (PDF 1022KB)
- Faculty of Life Sciences - The University of Manchester (PDF 440KB)
- Faculty of Medicine - University of Southampton (PDF 561KB)
- Institute for Ageing and Health - Newcastle University (PDF 509KB)
- School of Biosciences - The University of Nottingham (PDF 579KB)
- Royal Veterinary College (PDF 598KB)
- Department of Biomedical Science - The University of Sheffield (PDF 535KB)
- Neuroscience Group - University of Southampton (PDF 868KB)
- Institute of Aquaculture - University of Stirling (PDF 796KB)
- Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences - University of Strathclyde (PDF 670KB)
- School of Biological Sciences - University of East Anglia (PDF 604KB)
- Department of Biological Sciences - The University of Warwick (PDF 583KB)
- Department of Biology - The University of York (PDF 579KB)
Contact
Anuj Bhatt
impact.awards@bbsrc.ac.uk
tel: 01793 413390
fax: 01793 414674