Our 2022 award winners

Outstanding Interdisciplinary Research

Winners:

• Professor Lorna McGregor, School of Law
• Professor Ahmed Shaheed, School of Law
• Professor Peter Fussey, Department of Sociology and Human Rights Big Data and Technology colleagues

Runners- up: Dr Maria Laura Filippetti, Dr Silvia Rigato, Dr Javier Andre-Perez, Professor Hani Hagras

Outstanding Early Career Researcher

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Winner: Dr Paola di Giuseppantonio di Franco

Faculty of Social Sciences

Winner: Dr Amanda Cole

Faculty of Science and Health

Winner: Dr Anna Sturrock

Research Visibility Champion

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Winner: Dr Alexandros Antoniou

Faculty of Social Sciences

Winner: Professor Meena Kumari

Faculty of Science and Health

Winner: Dr Miroslav Sirota

Best Research Impact by an Early Career Researcher

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Winner: Julie Hannah

Faculty of Social Sciences

Winner: Dr Amanda Cole

Faculty of Science and Health

Winner: Dr Jordi Asher

Best UK Public Policy Research Impact

Winners:

• Professor Wayne Martin, School of Philosophy and Art History
• Professor Sabine Michalowski, School of Law
• Dr Aaron Wyllie, School of Health and Social Care
• Dr Emily Fitton, School of Philosophy and Art History
• Dr Margot Kuylen
• Dr Vivek Bhatt
• Dr Thomas Hartvigsson

Runner-up: Professor Birgitta Rabe and Dr Laura Fumagalli

Best International Research Impact

Winner: Dr Maxwell Roberts, Department of Psychology

Runners-up: Professor Kelum Jayasinghe, Dr Tara Van Ho

Best Research Impact in Enterprise and Innovation

Winner: Professor Stuart Walker, School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering

Runners-up: Professor Philip Leifeld, Vanessa Baxter

Best Creative and Cultural Research Impact

Winner: Dr Nic Blower, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies

Runner-up: Dr Matt Lodder

Outstanding Research Support by Technician or Technical Team

Winner: Life Sciences Technical Team
Runner-up: Psychology Technical Team

The Conversation awards

Faculty of Arts & Humanities

Winner: Dr Matt Bennett, School of Philosophy and Art History
Why Squid Game is actually a critique of meritocracy, October 22, 2021 = 46,468 views

Faculty of Social Sciences

Winner: Professor Natasha Lindstaedt, Department of Government
Ukraine: are reports of Russian troops mutinying and deserting true? It's happened before, April 1, 2022 = 132,745 views

Faculty of Science and Health

Winner: Dr Nikhila Mahadevan, Department of Psychology
Narcissists: there's more than one type – and our research reveals what makes each tick, August 5, 2021 = 196,914 views

Conferment of New Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences announcement or awards since 2019.

They join a select group of Fellows recognised for making a substantial contribution to the social sciences. The Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS) is an award granted to leading academics, policy-makers and practitioners.

• Professor John Preston - Department of Sociology
• Professor Monika Schmid - Department of Language and Linguistics
• Professor Thankom Arun - Essex Business School
• Professor Kristian Gleditsch, Department of Government
• Professor Suma Athreye, Essex Business School - Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship
• Professor Matthew Woollard, Director of Uk Data Archive
• Professor Peter Fussey, Department of Sociology

Conferment of New Fellows of the British Academy

• Professor James Raven, Department of History