UCD Impact Case Study Competition - Previous Winners

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  • 2024 Winner

    EIRSAT-1 team

    School of Physics, UCD Centre for Space Research

    Ireland’s first satellite: transforming the national space landscape with the launch of EIRSAT-1

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2024 ENGAGED RESEARCH IMPACT PRIZE:

 

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2023 WINNER:

 

2023 ENGAGED RESEARCH IMPACT PRIZE:

 

 2023 RUNNERS-UP:

 

  • 2022 Winner

    Professor Eilis Hennessy, Aine French, Dr Daráine Murphy

    UCD School of Psychology

    Helping parents support youth mental health

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  • “The competition encouraged my research team to look across our projects at the different and complementary ways that we have sought to understand the support needs of parents and to ensure impact for them and their families. We are delighted to have our research impact recognised by this competition.”
    – Professor Eilis Hennessy

 

2022 RUNNERS-UP:

  • Assistant Professor Alexander Kondakov & Sergey Katsuba
    UCD School of Sociology, UCD Sutherland School of Law
    A decade of violence: monitoring anti-LGBTQ hate crimes in the era of the Russian gay propaganda law
  • The Diabetes Complications Research Centre (UCD DCRC)
    UCD School of Medicine, Conway Institute
    Changing the guidelines for treating type 2 diabetes
  • Dr Alma Clavin, Associate Professor Gerald Mills & Professor Niamh Moore-Cherry
    UCD School of Geography
    Empowering community-led green urban development
  • Assistant Professor Sarah Cotterill
    UCD School of Civil Engineering
    Every drop counts – making a case for water conservation in Ireland
  • Associate Professor Tom Curran
    UCD School of Biosystems and Food Engineering
    Fighting fatbergs – avoiding sewer blockages
  • Assistant Professor Nan Zhang
    UCD School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
    From lab to bedside: bringing medical devices to the market quicker
  • HealthyAir (led by Dr Ricardo Simon Carbajo)
    UCD School of Computer Science, CeADAR - Centre for Applied Data Analytics
    HealthyAir: addressing the impacts of air pollution in Vietnam
  • Assistant Professor Laura Taylor & Dearbháile Counihan
    UCD School of Psychology
    Helping Kids! – promoting inclusive peacebuilding
  • Professor Katherine O’Donnell & Professor Hugh Campbell
    UCD School of Philosophy, UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy
    Inspiring a site of national conscience at the Sean McDermott Street Magdalene Laundry
  • Professor Deirdre Raftery & Professor Marie Clarke
    UCD School of Education
    PINNACLE: empowering women in India and Pakistan to become education leaders

  • 2021 Winner

    Irish Critical Care-Clinical Trials Network

    UCD School of Medicine

    Improving outcomes of critically ill patients with COVID-19

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  • "Our national and international collaborations, established before the COVID-19 pandemic, allowed us to respond in a timely manner and give life-saving information at the bedside, guiding clinical practice in Ireland and beyond."
    – Professor Alistair Nichol

 

2021 RUNNERS-UP:

  • Coastal Communities Adapting Together (led by Dr Chiara Cocco)
    UCD School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy
    Supporting climate action through tree planting
  • Dr Keith Gaynor
    UCD School of Psychology
    Helping people cope during COVID-19
  • Professor Judith Harford, Assistant Professor Rachel Farrell, Assistant Professor Aoibhínn Ní Shúilleabháin
    UCD School of Education and UCD School of Mathematics and Statistics
    Girls in STEM: changing attitudes and increasing diversity
  • Dr Claas Kirchhelle
    UCD School of History
    Typhoidland: using the past to inform the future of typhoid control
  • Professor Patricia Maguire
    UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science
    AI_PREMie: saving lives of mothers and babies using AI
  • Dr Denise O’Brien, Sinead Thompson, Lorraine Carroll, Dr Barbara Coughlan
    UCD School of Nursing Midwifery and the National Maternity Hospital
    The Labour Hopscotch Framework: improving outcomes for mother and baby
  • Dr Shane O’Donnell
    UCD School of Sociology
    #WeAreNotWaiting: tackling diabetes through patient-led research and open-source innovation
  • Associate Professor Helen Sheridan, Professor Tommy Boland, Professor Olaf Schmidt, Associate Professor Bridget Lynch, Assistant Professor Paul Murphy
    UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science
    SmartGrass: improving the sustainability of livestock farming
  • Professor Eleni Theodoraki
    UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science
    Promoting policies for sustainable mega-sport events
  • Associate Professor Liam Thornton
    UCD Sutherland School of Law
    Ending direct provision

  • 2020 Winner

    Associate Professor Catherine Cox

    UCD School of History

    ‘Out of sight, out of mind’: changing public perceptions of the mental health crisis in Irish prisons

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  • "We communicated with large audiences about an important but neglected issue, mental health in the criminal justice system ... importantly for me, a historian, we put the history of these issues in conversation with our present."
    – Associate Professor Catherine Cox

 

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  • 2019 Winner

    Associate Professor Emilie Pine

    UCD School of English, Drama and Film

    Communicating the legacy of child abuse and helping victims heal

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  • "I’m delighted with this recognition of the collaborative work of colleagues across the university and survivors of institutional abuse. This really shows the academic and real-world value of Humanities research."
    – Associate Professor Emilie Pine

 

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  • 2018 Winner

    Associate Professor Crystal Fulton

    School of Information & Communication Studies

    Playing Social Roulette: The impact of gambling on individuals and society in Ireland

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  • "I am honoured to have received the UCD Research Impact Case Study Award. Research that supports people builds a highly rewarding experience for both communities and researchers. This award means a lot to me, because it recognises the impact my research has had on our daily lives through regulation and policy development. I am grateful to my participants for sharing their experiences, as well as my funders for enabling this work, and UCD for recognising the social impact of this work through this award."
    – Associate Professor Crystal Fulton

 

2018 RUNNERS - UP:

  • 2017 Winner

    Professor Michelle Norris

    UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice

    Funding Social Housing for Low-Income Households After Ireland's Economic Crisis

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