Principal's Prize for Public Engagement with Research

Main Prize

Winner - Dr Amy Irwin (School of Psychology)

Early Career Researcher

Winner - Dr Ana payo-Payo (School of Biological Sciences)

Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Sciences

Joint Winners: Dr Katie Banister & Dr Samantha Wileman (School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition)

Main Prize

Winner - Dr Madalina Neacsu (Rowett Institute)
Runner Up - Dr Alexandros Zangelidis (Business School)

Early Career Researcher

Winner - Ms Orsolya Czére (School of Geosciences)
Runner Up - Mr Oliver Hamlet (School of Psychology)

Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Sciences

Winner - Clare Robertson (School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition)

Main Prize

Winner - Professor Marjory Harper (School of Divinity, History & Philosophy)
Runner Up - Dr Amy Irwin (School of Psychology)

Early Career Researcher

Winner - Dr Heidi Gardner (School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition)
Runner Up - Miss Josefine Bjorkqvist (School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition)

Outstanding Achievement in Biomedical Sciences

Winner - Dr Gordon Fernie (School of Medicine, Medical Sciences & Nutrition)

Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement

Winner - Professor Jane Geddes, Chair in History of Art (School of Divinity, History and Philosophy)

Winner, Main Category - Dr Heather Morgan, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition
Runner up - Professor Tom Weber and Professor Tom Greggs, School of Divinity, History and Philosophy and Professor Pete Stollery, School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture

Winner, Early Career Category - Mrs Beatriz Goulao, Health Services Research Unit
Runner up - Dr Heidi Gardner, Health Services Research Unit

Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Public Engagement in the Biomedical Sciences: Dr Mirela Delibegovic, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Winners, Public Prize: Dr Mirela Delibegovic and Dr Donna MacCallum, both from the School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition

Winner, Senior Category - Dr Neil Vargesson, Medical Sciences
Runner up (Recognition of Outstanding Achievement) - Professor Pete Smith, School of Biological Sciences

Winner, Early Career Category - Dr Jessica Butler, Institute of Applied Health Science
Runner up (Recognition of Outstanding Achievement) - Dr Heather Morgan, Health Services Research Unit

Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Public Engagement in the Biomedical Sciences: Joint Winners - Dr Karen McArdle, Manager MRC Centre for Medical Mycology and Dr Jonathan Pettitt, Medical Sciences

Dr Gordon Noble was awarded the Senior Researcher first prize for his work in engagement with archaeology with Dr Amy Bryzgel from the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture and Dr Alex Johnstone from the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health receiving joint runner-up awards.

Dr Heather Morgan, from the Health Sciences Research Unit was awarded the Early Career award with Annie Robinson, a research fellow in Biological Sciences winning the runner-up award.

Norul Latif, a postgraduate researcher won the Outstanding Achievement in Public Engagement in the Biomedical Sciences, supported by the University's Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund.

Professor Michael Keating of the School of Social Science was awarded the Senior Researcher award first prize, Dr Fern Insh of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy was awarded the Early Career Researcher first prize and Dr Jennifer Macdiarmid of the Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health was awarded the prize for public engagement in the Biomedical Sciences.

Recognition of Outstanding Achievement was awarded to Professor Xavier Lambin in the Senior Researcher category and Dr Heather Morgan in the Early Career Researcher category.

Dr Rick Knecht and his co-investigators Dr Charlotta Hillerdal and Dr Kate Britton of the School of Geosciences were jointly awarded the Senior Researcher award first prize.

Hannah Grist and Jenny Sturgeon of the School of Biological Sciences were jointly awarded the Early Career Researcher first prize.

Recognition of Outstanding Achievement was awarded to Professor Thomas Weber in the Senior Researcher category and Dr Ourania Varsou in the Early Career Researcher category.

Dr Jane Reid and Dr Ewan Campbell both of the School of Biological Sciences were awarded the Senior and Early Career first prizes. Dr Jeff Oliver, lecturer in Archaeology and Sonia Watson, postgraduate researcher in neuroscience (photographed left), collected the awards for Outstanding Achievement in the senior and Early Career categories.

A special award recognizing the public engagement work of the University's Medi-CAL unit was presented to John McDonald of the University's Medi-CAL unit. The award has been made in memory of Dr Neil Hamilton who passed away in November of last year. Dr Hamilton led Medi-CAL across a range of innovative IT and technology projects aimed at enriching the teaching and learning environment for staff and students. Dr Hamilton was also passionate about extending the work of Medi-CAL beyond the lab and classroom including most recently the showcasing of 3-D visualization systems with public and local schools.

To see more about other public engagement projects that are taking place at the University of Aberdeen take a look at our case studies section.