UCD Research Impact Competition Award and Finalists 2024
UCD Vice-President for Research, Innovation and Impact Professor Kate Robson Brown has announced the winner and ten finalists of the 2024 UCD Research Impact Case Study Competition. The annual competition encourages researchers from all disciplines to share how their work has made a positive difference to wider society.
Congratulations to our three finalists from The College of Health and Agricultural Sciences. Professor Patricia Fitzpatrick, Dr Alison Connolly and Professor Gerry Wilson.
The "Engaged Research” impact prize was awarded to Professor Patricia Fitzpatrick from UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, as the runner-up whose case study most strongly demonstrated meaningful collaboration with the public and stakeholders. Her research work ‘Supporting cancer patients to quit smoking post diagnosis’, showed impressive evidence of patient engagement, which led to improved treatment outcomes and positive effects on patients’ health.
Dr Alison Connolly, from the UCD Centre for Safety and Health at Work, at the UCD School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science was selected as a finalist based on her research work on Using human biomonitoring to understand chemical exposures among the population.
Professor Gerry Wilson, from the UCD School of Medicine, and UCD Centre for Arthritis Research for his work in Identifying a new severe inflammatory disorder.
Professor Robson Brown commented, “On behalf of UCD Research and Innovation, I’d like to heartily congratulate this year’s awardees. It is wonderful to celebrate their ground-breaking research today and to recognise how this work is influencing policy, building collaborations, enriching lives and inspiring the next generation.
Congratulations to all 10 finalists and the Overall Winner Prof (opens in a new window)Lorraine Hanlon and the EIRSAT-1 team, for 'Ireland’s first satellite: transforming the national space landscape with the launch of EIRSAT-1’.