President’s Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement

The President’s Awards for Excellence are annual awards to recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in Culture and Community, Education, Research, Societal Engagement or Sustainability.

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement recognise staff members who have demonstrated an outstanding contribution to deliver inspiring engagement activities or supported the development of a culture of societal engagement at Imperial.

  • Medal winner: Stephanie Powell, School of Public Health

Leadership Award

For individuals who have supported other staff and students in their own engagement endeavours.

Award winner:

  • Sabine van Elsland, School of Public Health

Achievement Award

For both individuals or teams who have delivered excellent engagement activities or programmes.

Individual award winners:

  • Liva Donina, Department of Chemical Engineering

Team winners: Young Producers Antimicrobial Resistance Research Team

  • Juliet Allibone, Emma Carter, Amrita Ghataure, Jennifer Lawrence, Rakhee Parmar, Ellen Stadler – Department of Infectious Disease
  • Ashleigh Green, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Highly commended:

  • Mohn Centre for Children’s Health & Wellbeing – Research Engagement Team Rachel B Smith, Dougal Hargreaves, Esta Orchard (School of Public Health)
  • Jack Cooper, Institute of Global Health Innovation

Partner Award

Recognises those who collaborate with us from outside our Imperial community to make engagement happen. This could include patients, residents, community members and partner organisations in the public, private and third sector.

Team winner: Wellhome Community Ambassadors

  • Nour-eddine Aboudihaj
  • Asha Ahmed
  • Susu Ali
  • Fatima Amin
  • Manon Chiari
  • Mounira Igheldane
  • Mutthu Karappan
  • Piia Lavila
  • Wendy Roudette
  • Della Rozycka

Highly commended:

  • Nourish Hub – Ffion Hayward
  • Westminster City Lions – Sisley Hamer, John Nolan

Student Award

Awarded to student teams or individuals who have delivered excellent engagement activities.

Award winners:

  • Alexandra Cardoso Pinto, School of Public Health
  • Vanessa Madu, Mathematics

Highly commended: Music of the Earth team

  • Mark Boyd, Elnaz Barati, Alex Smith – Department of Earth Science & Engineering
  • George Burton, Mahika Dixit, Tanith Hackney – Department of Life Sciences
  • Josh Lanham, Fangjun Peng – Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Shawn Lee, Ruthie Parsons – School of Public Health
  • Neel Le Penru – Dyson School of Design Engineering

You can read more about the awards in our news story.