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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)

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