2024 Winners and special mentions

Winning project – Touching the past: broadening heritage access using tactile models of geoscience data

Lead – Dr Adam Booth (School of Earth and Environment)

Contributors – Dr Raymond Holt and Dr Briony Thomas (School of Mechanical Engineering); Tegwen Roberts (Wakefield Council, formerly Barnsley Museums); and Gemma Clarke (Barnsley Museums)

Winning project – Forecasting extremes using statistical machine learning: pushing academic research to economic innovation and impact

Lead – Dr Leonid Bogachev (School of Mathematics)

Winning project – Improving national early warning capability for flooding

Lead – Professor Cathryn Birch (School of Earth and Environment)

Contributors – Dr Steven Boeing, Dr Ben Maybee and Joseph Smith (School of Earth and Environment); Professor Mark Trigg (School of Civil Engineering); Julia Perez (Flood Forecasting Centre), Aurore Porson (Met Office); Kay Shelton (JBA Consulting); and Dr Linda Speight (University of Oxford)

Winning project – HOPE (Homelessness & Oral Health), a network for stakeholder partnership engaging for change

Leads – Dr Karen Vinall-Collier and Dr Julia Csikar (School of Dentistry)

Contributors – Professor Gail Douglas (School of Dentistry), Lisa Chambers (St George’s Crypt), Dr Stefan Serban (University of Glasgow), Sally Eapen-Simon (NHS England), Hayden Ridsdale (West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board), Elizabeth Kirby (Inclusion Health), Becky Joyce (Homeless Street Angels), Shelley Joyce (Homeless Street Angels), Dominic Maddocks (York Street Medical Practice), Rebekah Besford (Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust), High Ash and Hunslet dental practices

Winning project – Understanding, preventing and disrupting cuckooing victimisation

Lead – Dr Laura Bainbridge (School of Law)

Contributors – Dr Amy Loughery (School of Law), Anne Rannard (National County Lines Coordination Centre), Jennifer Griffiths (West Yorkshire Police), Heather Ashby (Leeds City Council) and James Allen (Horton Housing)

Winning project – Changing the Story: Youth voice, accountability and sustainable development in conflict-affected societies

Lead – Professor Paul Cooke (School of Languages, Cultures and Societies)

Contributors – Dr Katie Hodgkinson (School of Politics and International Studies); Inés Soria-Donlan and Lauren Wray (Horizons Institute); Professor Stuart Taberner (School of Languages, Cultures and Societies); and Dr Lou Harvey (School of Education)

Winning project – The Dialect and Heritage Project (DHP): Transforming museums and communities through co-produced dialect research and democratised access to archival resources

Lead – Professor Fiona Douglas (School of English)

Contributors – Dr Rosemary Hall, Dr Kerri-Ann Butcher, Kathleen McGrath and Rae Hughes (School of English); Caroline Bolton and Rosie Dyson (Libraries Service); Zoe Willems, Steven Hearn and Leila Prescott (Avoncroft Museum of Historic to Buildings); Fiona Rosher and Poppy Oldham (Dales Countryside Museum); Kate Knowlden and Laura Kloss (The Food Museum); Jennifer Smith and Claire Midgley (Ryedale Folk Museum); Lucy Hockley and Amy Stone (Weald & Download Living Museum); Robbie Beake (Ammba Digital Ltd), Mary Stones and Tracy Cragg

Winning project – Informing food insecurity intervention in the UK through localised insights into food insecurity risk

Lead – Dr Fran Pontin (School of Geography/Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC)

Contributors – Professor Michelle Morris (School of Food Science and Nutrition and CDRC), Dr Rachel Oldroyd (School of Geography), Robyn Naisbitt (School of Geography and CRDC), Dr Emily Ennis (formerly CRDC), Alex Hambley (formerly CRDC), Peter Baudains (formerly CRDC), Ahmed Ammash (Leeds Institute of Data Analytics – LIDA) and Abdelrahman Ibrahim (Leeds Institute of Data Analytics – LIDA)

Winning project – Mapping wilderness to informing decisions on global biodiversity and climate targets

Lead – Professor Steve Carver (School of Geography)

Winning project – Impact of a research programme for Post COVID Condition or Long COVID (LC): Integrating translational science, clinical management and service delivery

Lead – Professor Manoj Sivan (School of Medicine)

Contributors – Dr Darren Greenwood (LICAM and LIDA); Dr Adam Smith (LICAM and NHS England); Professor Ghazala Mir, Thomas Osborne, Barbara Silva Passadouro, Omar Khoja, Dr Joanna Corrado, Nafi Iftekhar, Rosie Solomon and Professor Daryl O’Connor (School of Medicine); Dr Stephen Halpin, Mike Horton, Amy Parkin, Madeline Goodwin, Angela Greenbank, Sarah Moses, Anika McKay and Professor Rory O’Connor (LIRMM); Roman Rocha Lawrence and Paul O’Brien (ELAROS 24/7); Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Joseph Kwon and Professor Stavros Petrou (University of Oxford); and Professor Alex Casson (University of Manchester)

Winning project – Safer parks: improving access for women and girls

Lead – Dr Anna Barker (School of Law)

Contributors – Rizwana Alam, Dr Sally Osei-Appiah and Dr Sibylla Warrington Brown (School of Law); Lauren Cape-Davenhill (School of Geography); Professor George Holmes (School of Earth and Environment); Kersti Mitchell (External Communications); Lynsey Atherton, Carl McClean, Paul Todd and Michelle Walde (Keep Britain Tidy); Tracy Brabin, Helen Forman, Alison Lowe, Vanessa Rolfe and Ian Yates (West Yorkshire Combined Authority); Nathan Capstick and Professor Adam Crawford (ESRC Vulnerability and Policing Futures Research Centre); Josie Brookes (Freelance); James Harper, Clare Perry and Rosie Turner (Harper Perry); Jeanette Morris-Boam (Leeds Women’s Aid); and Susannah Walker (Make Space for Girls)

Winning project – Engaging audiences to improve trust and confidence in news and journalism through trusted regulation

Lead: Professor Julie Firmstone (School of Media and Communication)

Contributors: Dr Maria Georgoula (School of Media and Communication) and Professor John Steel (University of Derby)

Project - Creative arts for transformative justice and abolitionist futures

Lead – Professor Aylwyn Walsh (School of Performance and Cultural Industries)

Contributors – Eve Ryan (Abolitionist Futures), Dalton Harrison (student and ex-prisoner), Phoenix-Leigh Griffin (student, ex-prisoner and project assistant), Ripon House and Cardigan House (Leeds probation hostels)  

Project - Business finance forecasting and policy modelling research: debt and equity finance for small and high growth business

Lead – Professor Nick Wilson (Leeds University Business School)

Contributor – Marek Kacer (Leeds University Business School)

Project - Fabulous femininities: extending and sharing burlesque’s inclusive and safe spaces as good practice

Lead – Dr Jacki Willson (School of Performance and Cultural Industries)

Contributors – Professor Alice O’Grady and Dr Daisy Johnson (School of Performance and Cultural Industries)

Project - Improving the quality and safety of medicines use for older people

Lead – Professor David Alldred (School of Healthcare)

Contributors – Professor Liz Breen, Professor Beth Fylan and Dr Jon Silcock (University of Bradford); Dr Daniel Okeowo (University of Newcastle, formerly Leeds); Dr George Peat (University of Northumbria, formerly Leeds); Professor Theo Raynor (School of Healthcare); NIHR Yorkshire and Humber Patient Safety; and the Health Innovation Network

Project - Determining the impact of air cleaning technologies upon school attendance during the Covid-19 pandemic

Lead – Professor Catherine Noakes (School of Civil Engineering)

Contributors – Dr Jonathan Darling and Professor Richard Feltbower (School of Medicine); Dr Megan Wood and Professor Mark Mon-Williams (School of Psychology); Dr Henry Burridge, Stavros Bontitsopoulos and Dr Samuel Wood (Imperial College London); Professor Clive Beggs (Leeds Beckett University); Ciarán McInerney (University of Sheffield); and Samuel Relins (Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

Project - Kayuh Baimbai: co-designing a diffability-inclusive disaster preparedness toolkit (diffability – a term we use for different ability to acknowledge various way of doing things and people with diffability agency)

Lead – Dr Desy Pirmasari (School of Geography)

Contributors – Dr Katie McQuaid and Andi Misbahul Pratiwi (School of Geography); Slamet Triyadi (Indonesia Disabled People’s Association Banjarmasin Chapter); Barniah (Indonesia Disabled Women’s Association Banjarmasin Chapter); Diffability Liaison Officers (DLOs) Budi Kurniawan and Ilham Akbar (Antasari Islamic State University)