ESRC impact awards for faculty academics
The Faculty of Social Sciences has won two prestigious prizes from the ESRC recognising the outstanding impact of our research. Professor Cathy Nutbrown was the winner of the Society category and Professor Alan Walker was the winner of the Impact Champion of the Year award. The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize recognises and rewards the successes of ESRC-funded researchers achieving outstanding economic and societal impacts.
Professor Cathy Nutbrown, School of Education, was the winner of the Society category for her work with 20 early-years practitioners to adapt the family literacy framework ORIM (Opportunities, Recognition, Interaction and Models). Practitioner workshops enabled the families they were working with to raise children's literacy achievements. The original 20 practitioners shared their work resulting in around 300 practitioners getting involved - between them reaching 6,000 families.
Professor Alan Walker, Department of Sociological Studies, has an exemplary career-long record in championing impact - most recently demonstrated as the central aim of the New Dynamics of Ageing (NDA) Programme, in capacitybuilding among researchers at all stages of their careers, pioneering new approaches and in achieving direct impact, particularly in the policy field. Professor Walker's dedication to impact has proved inspirational across a wide range of disciplines as well as among non-researchers.