Partnership Projects Sweep UEA Innovation and Impact Awards

Following the Awards Ceremony in June, we ’ re delighted to announce that eight UEAHSCP-supported projects were nominated and that two projects won in the Partnership of the Year and Outstanding Contribution/Response to COVID-19 categories!

In addition, the Norwich Testing Initiative won the Chancellor ’ s Award for Outstanding Achievement.Congratulationsgoto all our partners involved in this importantjoint project; well done to our colleagues across Earlham Institute, John Innes Centre, The Quadram Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich Medical School, UEA IT and Computing services, and UEA School of Computing Science.

UEAHSCP Managing Director Mark Hitchcock accepts the Chancellor ' s Award on behalf of the collaborative team across Norwich Research Park. The team at UEAHSCP were proud to be nominated in the Partnership of the Year category thank you to all of our colleagues and supporters. We ’ re even more motivated to continue to drive joint innovation across health and social care research.

UEA Research & Innovation Services have held the Annual Innovation and Impact Awards since 2018 to recognise and reward research and innovation that goes above and beyond and makesasignificant impact beyond academia. The awards are always fiercely competitive, highlighting some of the best and most ground-breaking UEA projects. This year, the UEA judging panel was joined by a guest judge for each category. Colleagues from partner organisations,includingArchant, Barclays, Big C, Lotus,NHS Norfolk and WaveneyCCG, Norwich Theatre, and Norfolk County Council,shared their knowledge and expertise.

Winners were announced at the online ceremony on Thursday 17 June

Watch the online ceremony embedded here or on YouTube here:

Congratulations to the partnership projects that were recognised:

The SCORES Project, won for Partnership of the Year (Dr Michael Grey and Dr Sarah Hanson from UEAHSCP’s Concussion Action Programme and Deconditioning research groups, Ellen Boucher, and Prof Michael Hornberger);

The C-19 Health Behaviour and Wellbeing Daily Tracker Study, won for Outstanding Contribution/Response to COVID-19 (Dr Felix Naughton and Prof Caitlin Notley from UEAHSCP’s Changing Behaviour research group);

A Centenary of Caring, nominated for Outstanding Impact in Health, Wellbeing and Welfare (Prof Sally Hardy from UEAHSCP’s ImpACT research group);

Compassionate Communities across East Anglia: a public health approach to palliative and end of life care, nominated for Partnership of the Year (Dr Guy Peryer from UEAHSCP’s Palliative Care research group).