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Early Career Researcher UK Awards
Since 1995, Elsevier has hosted the Early Career Researcher Awards with partner organisations around the world.
The Early Career Researcher Awards recognise and reward outstanding Early Career Researchers making a significant contribution to their field of research and thus having a positive effect on society. Elsevier believes in the vital importance of supporting researchers at an early stage in their career and wants to recognise the institutions that foster them.
The Early Career Researcher UK Awards comprises of two separate awards programmes:
- Scopus Early Career Researcher UK Award
- Researchers’ Choice Communication UK Award
The next award ceremony will take place in 2020. Elsevier is looking forward to celebrate and recognise the outstanding achievements of the UK’s early career researchers!
Scopus Early Career Researcher UK Award
Elsevier has hosted the Early Career Researcher Awards around the world with various partner organisations since 1995 in a concerted effort to support the growth and development of research talent globally. In the UK Elsevier has partnered with the US-UK Fulbright Commission for this biennial event in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2018 and now again in 2020.
Six bright early career scientists will be recognised in six different science categories: Arts and Humanities, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Environmental Science, Medicine, Physical Sciences, and Social Sciences.
The winners will be chosen by an expert panel of judges and announced before an audience of distinguished guests at the online awards ceremony. Each winner will receive a grant of £1,500.
Researchers' Choice Communication UK Award
This UK award, first introduced in 2015, has been developed by Elsevier in association with the US-UK Fulbright Commission, whose partnership began in 2011.
The Researchers' Choice Communication Award recognises early career researchers who have excelled in communicating the purpose, meaning and impact of their research to the wider public. The candidates are nominated by their colleagues and peers. The winner will be chosen from a shortlist by an expert panel of judges and announced before the audience of distinguished guests at the awards ceremony, and will receive a grant of £1,500.
The aim of this award is to stimulate researchers at an early stage in their career to promote the science they are passionate about to the wider population, recognising that excellent communication skills are vital both to researchers’ careers and to advancing public engagement with science.
Keep an eye on this page for upcoming news regarding the Early Career Researcher Awards 2020.
Criteria for Qualification for both awards:
- Nominees have published for the first time in 2017 or more recently;
- Nominees have an affiliation to an HE institution in the United Kingdom and are residents in the UK;
- Nominees have less than 100 co-authors (in total). This criterion is applied because it is very difficult to assess the contribution of single researchers in projects with very large co-author groups.
Winners of the Scopus Early Career Researcher UK Awards 2018
On Thursday 4th October 2018, Elsevier and the US-UK Fulbright Commission announced the winners of the 2018 UK Early Career Researcher Awards. Full details can be read here.
Dr Richard Millar
2018 Award Winner
University of Oxford
Environmental Science
Dr Sarah McGlasson
2018 Award Winner
University of Edinburgh
Medicine
Dr Filippo Menga
2018 Award Winner
University of Reading
Social Sciences
Dr Alex Ganose
2018 Award Winner
University College London
Physical Sciences
Dr Serene Chen
2018 Award Winner
Imperial College London & University of Cambridge
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Dr Charlotte Wray
2018 Award Winner
Royal Holloway, University of London
Arts and Humanities
Winner of the Researchers’ Choice Communication Award 2018
Dr Joanne Jordan of the University of Manchester investigated the impact of climate change on the lives of the urban poor in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Using local performance art to highlight the impact of climate change as slum dwellers experience it in their daily lives, Joanne has brought her work to over 7,000 people including those she studied, policy makers, academics, students and the general public.
Winners of the Scopus Early Career Researcher UK Awards 2015
Dr Michael Booth
2015 Award Winner
University of Oxford
Biochemistry, Genetics, Molecular Biology
Dr Chris Sweetapple
2015 Award Winner
University of Exeter
Environmental Science
Dr Jack Alexander-Webber
2015 Award Winner
University of Cambridge
Physical Sciences
Dr Sagar Jilka
2015 Award Winner
Imperial College London
Arts & Humanities
Dr Katherine Battle
2015 Award Winner
University of Oxford
Medicine
Dr Jonathan Fisher
2015 Award Winner
University of Birmingham
Social Sciences
Winner of the Researchers' Choice Communication Award 2015
Matthew Allen
2015 Award Winner
Cardiff University
Astrophysics
- His YouTube Channel and website have attracted significant media attention
- Writes regularly in Astronomy magazine
- Created two new apps that use astronomy data in a format compatible with Google Cardboard glasses
Winners of the Scopus Early Career Researcher UK Awards 2013
Jennifer Watling
2013 Award Winner
University of Exeter
Arts & Humanities
Dr Liam Clegg
2013 Award Winner
University of York
Social Sciences
Dr Stephen Montgomery
2013 Award Winner
University College London
Biochemistry, Genetics & Molecular Biology
Winners of the Scopus Early Career Researcher UK Awards 2011
Dr Angela Druckman
2011 Award Winner
University of Surrey
Environmental Sciences
Dr Matt Grove
2011 Award Winner
University of Liverpool
Humanities
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