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MPLS Impact Awards 2022/23 [This call is closed and no longer accepting nominations]

This is tenth year for MPLS Impact Awards, which celebrate, recognise and reward impacts achieved by our researchers. Since 2012, we received 142 nominations, and recognised individual and team achievements with 65 Impact Awards and 9 Commendations. Our annual awards aim to foster, raise awareness of, and reward impact at a local level, and prepare the ground for the impact case studies that will be needed for future REF and similar exercises. We welcome nomination of MPLS Division researchers at all career stages, and particularly early career researchers and postgraduates actively contributing to progress impacts from research.

MPLS Impact Awards

Awards are presented at a MPLS event (details to be confirmed), with a pay award of £1,000 (minus taxes) made to the individual. 

In 2022-23 there are five categories of award:

  1. Commercial Impact: To recognise researchers at any career stage for research that has had significant commercial/economic impact since 1 August 2018.
  2. Social Impact: To recognise researchers at any career stage for research that has had significant social impact since 1 August 2018.
  3. Early Career Impact: To recognise Early Career Researchers’ independent engagement with external organisations or end-users, as laying the foundations for future impactful research in social or commercial or policy or PER category.
  4. Public Engagement with Research Impact: To recognise researchers at any career stage who have achieved significant impact since 1 August 2018 through high-quality public engagement with research activities.
  5. Policy Impact: To recognise researchers at any career stage for research that has had significant policy impact since 1 August 2018.

Eligibility

Nomination to MPLS Impact Awards is open to all researchers in Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division, this includes academics, postdoctoral researchers, postgraduate research students, and technicians.

MPLS Division invites heads of department, research professionals, Oxford University Innovation staff, academics, postdoctoral researchers and postgraduates to nominate MPLS individuals or teams who have actively contributed to progress impacts from research. ‘Nominators’ are expected to have knowledge of the nominee(s)’s contributions and achievements relevant to the Impact Award. Self-nominations are also welcome from individuals and teams who wish to apply for the Award. Individuals or groups can apply directly (self-nominate), or be nominated by one or more person (nominators).

Researchers who have previously applied to the Vice Chancellor’s Innovation and Engagement Awards (which combine the previous VC's Innovation Awards and VC's Public Engagement with Research Awards) can also be nominated for MPLS Impact Awards.

However, projects/researchers that have received either a Vice Chancellor’s Innovation and Engagement Award*, or a commendation for a Vice Chancellor’s Innovation and Engagement Award*, or received a previous MPLS Impact Award, are not eligible to be nominated for an MPLS Impact Award for the same project, in a similar or related category, unless demonstrably significant progress has been made.

Nominations of large research programme teams/consortia are also ineligible; however researchers within them can be nominated for their individual achievements.

The deadline for applying to the 2022-23 awards is Monday, 24 April 2023. Any queries should be directed to Anuj Bhatt (Impact and Innovation Officer, MPLS) at epsrciaa@mpls.ox.ac.uk

 

* Includes former Vice Chancellor’s Innovation Awards and Vice Chancellor’s Public Engagement with Research Awards

 

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Download the MPLS Impact Awards guidance (PDF) or view the Impact Awards guidance as a webpage

Download the MPLS Impact Awards Nomination Form (Word doc) or view the Nomination Form content as a webpage

Previous winners:

Download a table of MPLS Impact Awards winners (Word doc) or view the previous winners as a webpage.

News stories:

Any queries should be directed to Anuj Bhatt (Impact and Innovation Officer, MPLS) at epsrciaa@mpls.ox.ac.uk