FEATURE MAKING AN IMPACT


people. The toolkit AGENDA has been embedded into practice by key organisations that deliver Sex and Relationships Education (SRE) across Wales – reaching more than 3,000 people including young people, practitioners, youth workers, police liaison officers, teachers and academics. Her findings were extensively cited by the Welsh Government in passing the Violence Against Women, Domestic Abuse and Sexual Violence Act. Professor Renold chaired the Cabinet Secretary for Education’s expert panel on the future of SRE in Wales, whose findings and recommendations are changing the SRE curriculum.


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Adams has collaborated with the United Nations’ International Labour Organization to look at using the model to evaluate the impact of similar reforms worldwide, starting in Brazil.


Professor Jennifer Rubin, ESRC


Executive Chair and chair of the Impact Prize panel: “We were impressed with the sheer quality and diversity of the research by the winners of the Impact Prize this year.”


Outstanding Impact in Society


Finalists: Professor Penny Green, Dr Thomas MacManus, Ms Alicia de la Cour Venning, Queen Mary University of London Winner: Professor Emma Renold, Cardiff University Relationships and sexuality education in Wales


has been transformed thanks to Professor Renold’s participatory research with children and young


in engaging with politicians and Parliament. Working with the Political Studies Association, he established the Total Exposure competition to help social scientists pitch ideas for TV and radio documentaries. Professor Flinders also established the first undergraduate module to be accredited and co-taught by the Houses of Parliament, which has been rolled out to 20 UK universities. n


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More about the finalists and the Celebrating Impact Prize at: esrc.ukri.org/research/celebrating-impact-prize


Ultimately, UK Research and


Innovation is first of all about the creation of knowledge Impact Champion


Professor Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield Over the past decade, Professor Flinders’ mission has been to help UK social science researchers to reach out beyond academia. He founded the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics in 2013 and has developed professional training courses, including the Crick Centre training course that has supported more than 200 academics


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