FEATURE MAKING AN IMPACT Making an impact
This year’s Celebrating Impact Prize competition encompassed research across a wide range of areas, nationally and internationally. The prize celebrates ESRC-funded researchers that have achieved outstanding impact on business, policy and society, in the UK and worldwide
Dr Dymond’s research led to a new national
reporting system on the use of force for all 43 police forces in England and Wales, resulting in more transparent and safer policing. She was invited to work on the police Use of Force Reporting Review in England and Wales after her PhD research into Taser use in England and Wales. Nine of Dr Dymond’s 10 recommendations were accepted in part or in full. She has also
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ROFESSOR JENNIFER RUBIN, ESRC Executive Chair and chair of the Celebrating Impact Prize panel, said: “We were impressed with the sheer quality and diversity of the research by the winners of the Impact Prize this year. Their work is having real influence on some very important societal issues.” “Achieving impact in the social sciences is a very particular skill,” said Sir Mark Walport, Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation, when he opened the award event on 20 June. “When I was in the role of [Government] Chief Scientific Adviser, social science was often at least as important as biological science, engineering science, physical science. You have an extremely important role, and I think that these prizes are a very good stimulus. “Ultimately, UK Research and Innovation is first of all about the creation of knowledge. If we are going to be able to innovate, if we are going to have new impacts, then we need new knowledge,” he added. “But it is then about turning that knowledge into utility, and that may be economic utility, it may be cultural and social utility through all sorts of other ways – and that is what the finalists have contributed to.” The winners of the 2018 Celebrating Impact
Prize are:
Outstanding Early Career Impact (in partnership with SAGE publishing)
Finalist: Mr Brett Heasman, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Winner: Dr Abigail Dymond, University of Exeter 34 SOCIETY NOW AUTUMN 2018
Sir Mark Walport, Chief Executive of UK Research and Innovation, opened the Impact Prize award event.
been working alongside the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture on the production of a Practical Manual for monitoring the use of weapons and restraints in places of detention. Outstanding Impact in Business and Enterprise Winner: Dr Denise Baden, University of Southampton
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