Real impact awards
2022/3
The results are in!
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The Real Impact Awards celebrate those in the research community who go above and beyond to make a difference to their communities or wider society.
And once again, so many of you shared inspiring stories of your commitment to impact.
Our judging panel had a difficult task in deciding the winners, but a decision has been made - congratulations to the 2022/3 changemakers!
Early career researcher recognition award
Recognising the efforts of early career researchers in trying to challenge the status quo to drive the impact agenda.
Winner
Dr Gabriela Baron, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Highly commended
- Dr Ramashego Mphahlele, University of South Africa
- Dr Taylor Willmott, The University of Adelaide, Australia
Finalist
Dr Ozlem Eylem-van Bergeijk, Global Mental Health Cultural Psychiatry Research Group, Netherlands
Driving the impact agenda
Celebrating the efforts and commitment to strategically embed impact within a research environment or to drive impact culture.
Winner
The Low Harm Hedonism InitiativeProfessor Sara Dolnicar, Ms Jenna Farmer, Dr Sabina Albrecht, Associate Professor Sheranne Fairley, and Associate Professor Marius Portmann, The University of Queensland, Australia
Highly commended
Professor Nicola Martin, London South Bank University, UK
Mobilising research into action
Recognising the efforts and commitment being made to meaningfully connect research and action to deliver societal change, with a special focus on international collaboration.
Winning team
Young & Resilient Research Centre, Western Sydney University, Australia
Professor Amanda Third, Ms Lilly Moody and Dr Girish Lala, Young and Resilient Research Centre, Western Sydney University, Australia
Highly commended
- Professor Joao Porto de Albuquerque, University of Glasgow, UK, Professor Maria Alexandra Cunha, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Brazil and Professor Alexander Zipf, Heidelberg University, Germany and Dr Rachel Trajber, National Centre for Disaster Monitoring and Early Warning, Brazil (CEMADEN)
- Dr Andreana Drencheva, King's College London, and Dr Wee Chan Au, Newcastle University, UK (previously at Monash University, Malaysia)
Interdisciplinary research award
Rewards an innovative research project that promotes action on the UN Sustainable Development Goals/global challenges.
Winning project
Exploring cultural capital in local communities
Professor Chris Brown, University of Warwick, Professor Chris Gerrard, University of Durham and John Castling, Auckland Project, UK
Highly commended projects
- Advanced Digital Building Performance and Cost Assessment Network (ADiLE) for Post Disaster Building Assessment
Dr Sarajul Fikri Mohamed and Professor Dr Mohd Shafry Mohd Rahim, University Technology Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia.
- Improving local resilience to floods in the Hunter Region to address Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13
Associate Professor Iftekhar Ahmed, Mr Thomas Johnson, Dr Maggie Tang, Associate Professor Jamie MacKee, Professor Margaret Alston and Professor Roberta Ryan, University of Newcastle, Australia
- "I am a Girl, I am an Engineer": Inspire and Empower Impoverished Urban Girls to be Future Engineers
Dr Balamuralithara Balakrishnan and Dr Muhammad Ikhwan Hadi Yaacob, Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia and Dr Chua Yaw Long, The National Energy University, Malaysia
The judging panel
Thank you to the 2022/3 judging panel for their commitment and contribution to the awards, who together bring expert knowledge in impact, knowledge-exchange, policy-making, research funding, library and scholarly communications and interdisciplinary research.
- Alison Anderson, University of Plymouth, UK
- Louis Coiffait-Gunn, Publishers Association, UK
- Chris Hewson, University of York, UK
- Ken Knight, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia
- Lara Skelly, Loughborough University, UK
- Sharon Zivkovic, Torrens University, Australia
- Tony Roche, Chief Officer: Publishing & Strategic Relationships, Emerald Publishing, UK
Winners and highly commended prize
Each of the winners and highly commended will now have their impact commitment celebrated through a case study written by our specialist editors.
Each case study will form part of the Real Impact Awards 2022/3 Showcase Publication.
Read the winners stories from previous real impact awards
To recognise all the winners and highly commended entries, we have celebrated each of their stories. Here we showcase their commitment to making a significant difference in our communities, societies, cities, and the world at large. This is just one of the ways of showing our appreciation for their outstanding contributions to the research community and beyond.
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