Deadline extended for Research Engagement and Impact Awards
Friday, 20 April 2018
The ground-breaking Virtual Rome project led by Dr Matthew Nicholls was nominated for an Inform award last year.
DEADLINE EXTENDED: you now have time until Thursday 3 May to submit your work for consideration in the 2018 Research Engagement and Impact Awards.
The annual Research Engagement and Impact Awards aim to showcase the very best in Reading research. We are looking for examples of work with real-world impact – examples could include work that engages and interacts with people and communities, innovative research into topics of global interest and contributions to local and national policy debates.
Awards will be made across five categories for excellent work that aims to:
- Inspire: for work to engage children and young people with research.
- Inform: for work to find effective ways of informing the public about research to increase its accessibility, and to listen to their views about research.
- Influence: for work with policy or professional/practitioner audiences at local, national or international level to ensure that research influences the way they think about their work.
- Involve: for work to encourage public participation in research by involving people as researchers (e.g. citizen science) or collaborative research partnerships with external organisations or industry partners, including knowledge exchange.
- Embark: any engagement work by an early-career researcher.
How to enter
Entries are invited from researchers and professional staff at all levels and career stages – this includes those leading and supporting research projects. We welcome submissions from both individuals and groups.
To enter, please complete the following entry form:
Download application guidelines >>>
Applications must be received by 12.00pm, Thursday 3 May. The winners will be announced at the 2018 Research Engagement Awards ceremony on Tuesday 19 June.
A more detailed overview of the awards is available in our earlier story published in March (please note the closing deadline is listed as Thursday 19 April, which is no longer applicable). If you have any queries, please contact Caroline Knowles (extension 3894).