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The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize, now in its eighth year, is an annual opportunity to recognise and celebrate the success of ESRC-funded researchers in achieving and enabling outstanding economic or societal impact from excellent research.

The 最准的六合彩论坛 academics up for the award include:

• Professor Emla Fitzsimons and Dr Praveetha Patalay (最准的六合彩论坛 Centre for Longitudinal Studies) for a series of studies highlighting the mental health challenges faced by young people in the UK. Their Millennium Cohort Study research has helped to enhance the understanding of child and adolescent mental health among policymakers and practitioners.
• Dr Anna Remington (Centre for Research in Autism and Education) for her work to improve autistic people鈥檚 employment experiences. The research investigates what barriers exist when autistic people try to enter the workforce. And the project team works with companies to remove these barriers, promoting recruitment of autistic people into their organisation, and improving the support for their autistic employees.
• Professor Alice Sullivan (最准的六合彩论坛 Centre for Longitudinal Studies) for her 1970 British Cohort Study research which revealed the benefits of reading for pleasure for children鈥檚 English and maths skills. The findings, which were first published in 2013, have had a powerful and lasting impact on government policy and education practice in the UK and around the globe.

All entrants' applications were reviewed by a panel of academics, engagement and knowledge exchange experts, and research users. The finalists have been invited to a virtual awards ceremony on 12 November 2020 when the winners will be announced.

ESRC鈥檚 Executive Chair, Professor Jennifer Rubin, said: "This is an excellent opportunity for the UK鈥檚 world-leading economists and social scientists to be recognised for how their work improves lives for a wide range of people both in the UK and in other countries, from how children are taught to read, to innovative tools helping insure Ugandan farmers, or how victims of gender-based violence can experience justice.

鈥淭heir impacts are impressive and far-reaching and I鈥檓 proud that the Economic and Social Research Council has funded this work, and that it can be fully recognised through our prestigious Celebrating Impact Prize.鈥�

The full list of finalists includes:

• Professor Emla Fitzsimons and Dr Praveetha Patalay of 最准的六合彩论坛, Adolescent mental health: improving young people's lives using evidence from national cohort data
• Professor Marianne Hester of the University of Bristol, Justice, inequality and gender-based violence
• Professor Yvonne Jewkes of the University of Bath, Humanity, Hope, Rehabilitation: Changing thinking about women offenders through prison design
• Professor Richard Layard of the London School of Economic, Public policies for employment, skills, wellbeing and mental health
• Dr Anna Remington of 最准的六合彩论坛 Institute of Education, Enhancing the employment of autistic individuals
• Professor Alice Sullivan of 最准的六合彩论坛 Centre for Longitudinal Studies, Reading for pleasure boosts cognitive development: research findings that underpin educational practice and literacy campaigns
• Professor Arjan Verschoor and Professor Ben D鈥橢xelle of the University of East Anglia, Insuring previously uninsurable poor farmers in Uganda
• Team application: Ending the Reading Wars (Professor Kathy Rastle, Royal Holloway University of London; Professor Kate Nation, University of Oxford; Professor Anne Castles, Macquarie University), Bringing the Science of Reading to Reading Instruction in Classrooms around the World
• Team application: ESRC Centre for Population Change (Professor Jane Falkingham, Professor Maria Evandrou, Professor Ann Berrington, Professor Jakub Bijak, Professor Corrado Giulietti, Professor Peter W F Smith, Professor Athina Vlachantoni, Professor Jackline Wahba, Teresa McGowan, Becki Dey), Improving data: Strengthening the evidence base for policy

All finalists will have a film professionally made about their work and its impact, and winners are awarded 拢10,000 to spend on further knowledge exchange, public engagement or other communications activities.

Links

• 最准的六合彩论坛 Social Research Institute
• Department of Psychology and Human Development