{"id":692,"date":"2026-07-23T10:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=692"},"modified":"2026-07-24T12:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T11:07:55","slug":"julia-higgins-medals-and-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2026\/07\/23\/julia-higgins-medals-and-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Higgins Medals and Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/equality\/resources\/gender-equality\/julia-higgins-medal-and-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Julia Higgins Medals and Awards<\/a>\u00a0recognise individuals, groups, and departments that have made a significant contribution to the support of academic women at the university.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Medal recipients 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Individual medal: Emma Victoria Carrington, Department of Surgery and Cancer<\/p>\n<p>Team medal: WE Innovate team<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nadia Aharzem<\/li>\n<li>Laura Barclay<\/li>\n<li>Maggie Dallman<\/li>\n<li>Ben Mumby Croft<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Ranchev-Hale<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Award recipients 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Individual award: Professor Jo\u00e3o Cabral, Department of Chemical Engineering<\/p>\n<p>Team award: FoNS Emergency Period Care Team, Faculty of Natural Sciences<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Amelia Barron<\/li>\n<li>Clara Bradberry<\/li>\n<li>Cristebel Groves<\/li>\n<li>Emma Mattin<\/li>\n<li>Emma Pallett<\/li>\n<li>Kate Grimwood<\/li>\n<li>Kasia Kmieckowiak<\/li>\n<li>Mery Fajardo<\/li>\n<li>Morena Mills<\/li>\n<li>Sai Nathan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whole department award: Ada Lovelace Academy, Department of Earth Science and Engineering<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carolyn Newell<\/li>\n<li>Diana Cano Bordajandi<\/li>\n<li>Emma Watson<\/li>\n<li>Gareth Collins<\/li>\n<li>Gege Li<\/li>\n<li>Gerard Gorman<\/li>\n<li>James Percival<\/li>\n<li>Joanna Morgan<\/li>\n<li>Joanna Owens<\/li>\n<li>Marijan Beg<\/li>\n<li>Mark Sutton<\/li>\n<li>Martin Blunt<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Jackson<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Piggott<\/li>\n<li>Mike Warner<\/li>\n<li>Parastoo Salah<\/li>\n<li>Rebecca Bell<\/li>\n<li>Rhodri Nelson<\/li>\n<li>Rossella Arcucci<\/li>\n<li>Samantha Symmonds<\/li>\n<li>Saskia Goes<\/li>\n<li>Simon Warder<\/li>\n<li>Sophia Quazi<\/li>\n<li>Sophie Pirouet<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Dray<\/li>\n<li>Tina van De Flierdt<\/li>\n<li>Tom Davison<\/li>\n<li>Ying Ashton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Team award: Women&#8217;s PhD Network<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bethan Ritchie<\/li>\n<li>Gemma Mortell<\/li>\n<li>Martha Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Team award: School of Public Health Gender Equity Writing Group<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abeer M Arif<\/li>\n<li>Anne Cori<\/li>\n<li>Chinedu Udeh-Momoh<\/li>\n<li>Clare McCormack<\/li>\n<li>Daniela Fecht<\/li>\n<li>Gemma Clunie<\/li>\n<li>Hillary Topazian<\/li>\n<li>Isobel Blake<\/li>\n<li>Jenny Husbands<\/li>\n<li>Julia Michalow<\/li>\n<li>Kate M Mitchell<\/li>\n<li>Lucy C. Okell<\/li>\n<li>Marc Baguelin<\/li>\n<li>Matteo Pianella<\/li>\n<li>Michael Pickles<\/li>\n<li>Nora Schmit<\/li>\n<li>Paula Christen<\/li>\n<li>Sabine L van Elsland<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Essilfie-Quaye<\/li>\n<li>Sequoia Leuba<\/li>\n<li>Shazia-Pesantez<\/li>\n<li>Ruybal Sondus Hassounah<\/li>\n<li>Tini Garske<\/li>\n<li>Tristan Naidoo<\/li>\n<li>Wendy Kwok<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Julia Higgins Medals and Awards\u00a0recognise individuals, groups, and departments that have made a significant contribution to the support of academic women at the university.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305365],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}