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.

The President’s Medal for Excellence in Societal Engagement

For individuals who have made exceptional contributions to societal engagement.

Medal winner: Simon Foster, Natural Sciences

Leadership Award

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

Award winner: Anna Lawrence-Jones, Department of Surgery and Cancer

Achievement Award

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

Individual winner: Ben Howard, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Team winner: Let’s Talk About Cough

  • Billy Baxter, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction
  • Ellen Dowell, National Heart and Lung Institute
  • Eric Dubuis, National Heart and Lung Institute
  • Michael Wortley, National Heart and Lung Institute

Highly commended individual: Harry Jenkins, Enterprise

Highly commended team: Emerging Chemical Contaminants (ECC) Team

  • Leon Barron, School of Public Health
  • Ana Oliete, School of Public Health
  • Amber Vaughan, School of Public Health
  • Helena Rapp Wright, School of Public Health
  • Alexandra Richardson, School of Public Health
  • Shane Fitzgerald, School of Public Health
  • Chryshanthi Christy, School of Public Health
  • Stav Friedman, College Headquarters
  • Margarita White, School of Public Health
  • Juditha Gurumurthy, School of Public Health
  • Daniel Hourigan , School of Public Health
  • William Francis, School of Public Health
  • Lucy Birkitt, School of Public Health
  • Olukemi Oloyede, Research Postgraduate, School of Public Health
  • Melanie Egli, Research Postgraduate, School of Public Health
  • Abdullah Shahid, Department of Chemistry
  • Derryn Grant, School of Public Health

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.

Award winner: Marylebone Project

  • Miriam Kennedy
  • Semhar Rota

Student Award

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

Individual winners:

  • Sarindi Aryasinghe, School of Public Health
  • Mahika Dixit, Life Sciences

Team winner: WiME (Women in Mechanical Engineering)

  • Lucy Di, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Mary Sowter, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Nishka Mathur, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Melanie Joe, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Meron Mekecha, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Catriona Moffat, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Sofya Kustova, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Highly commended: ESE Women’s Outreach Team

  • Eleda Johnson, Earth Science & Engineering
  • Janice Zhao, Earth Science & Engineering
  • Ellya Kanimova, Earth Science & Engineering
  • Valerie Locher, Earth Science & Engineering
  • Zoe Leibowitz, Earth Science & Engineering

You can read more about the awards in our news story