Month: July 2026

Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Animal Research

The Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Animal Research celebrate good practice by research and CBS staff at Imperial.

Application of the 3R’s: Central Biomedical Services

Award winners:

  • Charred Basco
  • Teresa Boreham
  • Mark Harrington
  • Edgar Ibarguen
  • Smigielska Katarzyna
  • Shakara Stweart
  • George Zimmerman

Application of the 3R’s: Central Biomedical Services

Award winners:

  • Thomas Clarke, Department of Infectious Diseases
  • Jean-Baptiste Guichard, National Heart and Lung Institute

Public Engagement Award

Award winners:

  • Lindsay Keith, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
  • Yu Liu. MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
  • Anna Napolitano, Central Biomedical Services
  • Alice Pollard, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences
  • Amy Wathen, Central Biomedical Services
  • Thomas Wells, MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences

Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Health and Safety

The Provost’s Awards for Excellence in Health and Safety recognise individuals and teams whose efforts have resulted in significant improvements to health and safety in the university over the past year.

Individual award winner: Dominic Smith, Department of Infectious Disease

Team award winner: Ideas Lab team

  • Greg Hamlet
  • Ingrid Logan-Rivers
  • Ben Surtees

Special Recognition Award for Excellence in Health & Safety

Award winner: Dr John-Paul Latham, Department of Earth Science and Engineering

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.

Leadership Award

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

Award winner: Laura Alvarado-Cruz, Patient Experience Research Centre

Achievement Award

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

Individual winners:

  • Dr Rhea Harewood, Surgery and Cancer
  • Jodie Chan, Surgery and Cancer

Team winner: Women and Asthma

Highly commended team: Nature in Our Hands, Centre for Environmental Policy

  • Zoe Boulton
  • Annie Dean
  • Poppy Lakeman Fraser
  • Nikki Hills
  • Simon Hurt
  • Antonia Lucas
  • Karen Makuch
  • Louise Muller
  • Janet Porter
  • Alex Richards
  • Claire Riley
  • Abi Weeden

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: Families in Action Together

  • Aghileh Djafari Marbini
  • Jackie Marsh
  • Samreen Shah

Student Award

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

Individual winner: Lee Fernandes, Medicine

Team winner: London Maths Outreach

  • Ines Chung-Halpern
  • Izaak Haywood Fairclough
  • Nick Manrique
  • Naina Praveen
  • Bogdan Simeonov
  • Jed Thorpe
  • Arne Wolf

Highly commended individual: Kadija Bangura, Medicine

Highly commended team: STEM Muslims

  • Aiza Anwar
  • Rameen Ashfaq
  • Zakariyah Bello
  • Samiya Ibrahim
  • Dawud Khan
  • Khadeeja Mahmood
  • Madiha Qudoos
  • Javeria Saeed
  • Asad Tariq

President’s Awards for Excellence in Research

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 Research recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in early career research, research support, as part of a research team, and in research environment and research impact.

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President’s Award for Excellence in Education

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 Education are annual awards to recognise staff members who have made outstanding contributions in teaching, research supervision and supporting the student experience.

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

For outstanding teaching quality, organisation and presentation.

Medal winners:

  • Jerry Heng, Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Neepa Thacker, School of Public Health

Award winners:

  • Andrea Giusti, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Ian Radcliff, Department of Bioengineering

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovation

For outstanding teaching practice that demonstrates innovation.

Medal winner: Peter Johnson, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Award winners:

  • Josh Hodge, Department of Life Sciences
  • Umang Vinubhai Shah, Department of Chemical Engineering

Outstanding Co-Supervisor

These awards celebrate and recognise the valuable contribution that Postdocs make towards the supervision of the College’s PhD students.

Award winners:

  • Bettina Bohl, Department of Bioengineering
  • Felix Feng, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

President’s Award for Excellence in Research Supervision

For exceptional supervision, encouragement, and support of doctoral or postgraduate research students.

Medal winner: Sarah Fidler, Department of Infectious Diseases

Award winners:

  • Daniel Graham, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Christopher Rowlands, Department of Bioengineering

President’s Award for Supporting the Student Experience

For outstanding contributions to enhancing the student experience made by any members of staff at the College (academic, professional, or technical).

Medal winner: Chris Harris, Early Career Researcher Institute

Award winners (individuals):

  • Annalisa Neri, Department of Materials
  • Errikos Lewis, Department of Aeronautics
  • RObin Mowat, Lifelong Learning
  • Agnieszka Damasiewicz Niccolai, Department of Mathematics

Award winners (team): Pears Cumbria School of Medicine Professional Services Team

 

President’s Award for Excellence in Culture and Community

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 Culture and Community recognise staff who have made outstanding contributions over the last year in Leadership: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Collaboration: and Sustainability.

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