Senior appointments

The Julia Higgins Medal and Awards recognise individuals, groups, and departments that have made a significant contribution to the support of academic women at the university.

Award winners

• Anne Barratt, Division of the University Secretary
• Samuel Cooper, Dyson School of Design Engineering
• Lucia Lombardi, Department of Chemical Engineering
• Shiranee Sriskandan, Department of Infectious Disease
• Teresa Thurston, Department of Infectious Disease
• Anique Varleigh, Imperial College Business School
• Christopher Peters, Department of Surgery and Cancer

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

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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 winners:

• Charlotte Sutherell, Department of Chemistry
• Yatish Patel, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Team award winner: Life Sciences Health and Safety Task Force

• Sasha Angell and Emma Ransome – Department of Life Sciences

Highly commended:

• Richard Brown, Outreach Division

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

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

Individual award winners:

• Maike Haensel – National Heart and Lung Institute, Vascular Science Section
• Cheryll Brown – Central Biomedical Services

Team winners:

• Instagram takeover for the Understanding Animal Research’s #MiceInResearch event
  • Stephanie Natario and Anna Napolitano – Central Biomedical Services
  • Chiara Pojani and Elaine Irvine – Institute of Clinical Sciences, MRC London Institute of Medical Sciences (LMS)

• Reduction and refinement initiatives when developing a rat model of bleeding injury
  • Chengxing Lian and Jun Cai – Department of Bioengineering
  • Justyna Glegola and Ginny Fisher – Central Biomedical Services
  • Mike Emerson – National Heart and Lung Institute, Vascular Science Section

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

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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.

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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 innovation and external collaboration.

President’s Award for Excellence in Impact

For Excellence in Impact, which encompasses Policy, Enterprise, Engagement or Translation impact, aims to celebrate individuals or Teams whose research endeavours transcend academic boundaries, creating tangible, positive changes in society and the environment while exemplifying Imperial’s values in action.

Medal winners:

• Ben Glocker, Department of Computing
• Jonathan Jeffers, Department of Mechanical Engineering

The President’s Award for Outstanding Early Career Researcher

To celebrate the academic excellence and development of Imperial’s early stage researchers.

Medal: Calvin Tsay, Department of Computing

Award winners:

• Andrea Giusti, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• David Labonte, Department of Bioengineering

The President’s Award for Outstanding Research Team

To recognise outstanding research that delivers impact, a team’s international standing and their beneficial contribution to Imperial.

Medal winner: The Musculoskeletal Mechanics Group, led by Professor Anthony Bull

Award winners:

• The Steel Structures Research Group, led by Professor Leroy Gardner

The President’s Award for Research Support Excellence

To recognise the contribution of Research Support staff at Imperial, including the beneficial effects their support has given to Imperial research and the innovative approaches/good practice they bring to a project.

Award winners:

• Alberto Collauto, Department of Chemistry
• Cherry Kingsley, Department of Infectious Disease
• Christopher Roberts, Department of Chemistry
• Rita Carvalho, Department of Surgery and Cancer

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Research Environment (Ethics, Culture, Sustainability)

To celebrate individuals or groups whose initiatives and actions significantly contribute to nurturing an inclusive, collaborative research environment and promoting sustainable research practices within the institution.

Medal winner: Veronique Azuara, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Team winner:

• Professor Henry Rzepa – Department of Chemistry (PI)
• Professor Michael Bearpark, Department of Chemistry
• Charles Romain, Department of Chemistry

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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 Awards for Excellence in Teaching

For outstanding teaching quality, organisation and presentation.

Medal winner: Chee Yeen Fung, Department of Metabolism, Digestion and Reproduction

Award winners:

• Wendy Kwok, School of Public Health
• Julie Varley, Department of Mechanical Engineering
• Catherine Mansfield, Department of Life Sciences

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 winners:

• Jackie Bell, Department of Computing
• Graduate School team

Award winners:

• Jenny Husbands, School of Public Health
• Nousheen Tariq, Faculty of Medicine Centre
• Paul Fennel, Department of Chemical Engineering
• Sarah Willis, 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.

Award winner: Yiannis Demiris, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovation

For outstanding teaching practice that demonstrates innovation.

Medal winner: Jo Horsburgh, Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship

President’s Award for Outstanding Assistant Supervisor

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

Award winner: Grazia Antonacci, School of Public Health

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

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement recognise and reward staff, students and community partners who have delivered excellence in schools engagement, community engagement, engagement with research and/or patient engagement.

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

The President’s Awards for Excellence in Education celebrate staff who have made outstanding contributions in teaching and teaching innovation, research supervision and supporting the student experience.

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

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 innovation and external collaboration.

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