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39 nominees have been shortlisted for the King’s Engaged Research Awards 2025. Created by King’s Engaged Researcher Network (KERN), the awards aim to recognise and celebrate impactful public and community engagement with research across King’s.  The shortlist was selected from 100 nominations received by the KERN Working Group.

Representing nine of King’s faculties, nominated research projects involve audiences and external collaborators from a range of backgrounds, including community groups, arts and cultural organisations, business and healthcare.

The awards include 6 overarching categories that showcase excellence in a variety of different engagement approaches and across diverse audiences, with subcategories linked to local, national and international work. The categories are: Communicating Research, Collaboration, Participatory Approaches to Research, Transforming Research Culture, Integrated Education, Research and Service and the Outstanding Individual Contribution award. 

The winners will be announced by esteemed champions for engagement representing the college and our local partners at an awards ceremony in the Great Hall in January 2025 attended by King’s staff, students, and community partners.

For more information about the awards, please contact King's Engaged Researcher Network at kern@kcl.ac.uk.

The Shortlist

Communicating Research (Local)

• Community conversations about health research: going to underserved communities (IoPPN)
• Developing brain workshops (FoLSM)
• The King’s Festival of Artificial Intelligence (NMES)
• Stich and Stem (FoLSM)

Communicating Research (National)

• ASPEN-Study (Attempted Suicide in The Perinatal Period) (FoLSM)
• GLOW: Illuminating Innovation (A&H)
• MERCY (LAW)
• Working with Parents with a Learning Disability in contact with Children’s Services and Family Courts (SSPP)

Communicating Research (Global)

• Creative Women in Lagos: A Network and Documentary Film (A&H)
• Destination Hallucination (NMES)
• Neuroverse Podcast (IoPPN)
• Promoting Clarity in Complexity: The LCI's Role in Global China Policy (SSPP)

Collaboration (Local)

• Celebrating The Partnership between Coin Street Community and CME/BMEIS (FoLSM)
• Co-Designing Inclusive Community Energy in Newham (KBS)
• Experts By Experience: Who Knows Best? (RMID)
• Maudsley Education Consultation Service (IoPPN)

Collaboration (Global)

• Infrastructure And Peacebuilding: Examining the Implications of Mine Clearance in Angola and Somaliland (SSPP)
• 'What Does Radiotherapy Mean To You?’ Creative Arts Project (FoLSM)
• The Host-Microbiome Interactions In Noma Disease (FoDCS) 

Participatory Research (Local)

• Reach Young Person Community Champions (IoPPN)
• Us and Them (A&H)

Participatory Research (National)

• Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement in Research with Children and Young People with Sickle Cell Disorder and their Families (NMPC)
• Participatory Research Approaches to Involving Family Carers in Recovery Colleges (IoPPN)
• Trans*- Inclusive Healthcare (FoLSM)

Participatory Research (Global)

• AL.lots (FoLSM)
• Photovoice as a Potential Intervention for Loneliness Among Older Migrants From Myanmar (SSPP)
• The MinA/VEM Collective (SSPP)

Transforming Research Culture

• The Lived Experience Advisory Board (IoPPN and SSPP)
• The Reproduction Research Group (SSPP)

Integrated Education, Research and Service

• Developmental Neurobiology Academy (IoPPN)
• Rights Of Nature Toolkit: How to Protect Rivers in England and Wales (LAW)
• Windrush Justice Clinic & Reforming Redress Schemes (LAW)

Outstanding Individual (ECR)

• Ella Parry-Davies (A&H)
• Hannah Slack (IoPPN)

Outstanding Individual (Established Academic)

• Anand Menon (SSPP)
• Samantha Terry (FoLSM)

Outstanding Individual (Professional Services)

• Alice Taylor-Gee (FoLSM)
• Deanne Naula (FoLSM)
• Leigh Wilson (IoPPN)

Read more about each project in detail here.