Research Impact: Culture, Civic, Community and Policy 2025 Winners
This award recognises teams who have developed or achieved outstanding impact from Queen Mary research in cultural, civic, community or policy contexts.
The Awards are open to everyone in Queen Mary who works in research. From technicians to professors, from research managers to postdocs, we celebrate and value our world-leading community.
This award recognises teams who have developed or achieved outstanding impact from Queen Mary research in cultural, civic, community or policy contexts. We celebrate teams including academic and professional services staff at all career stages, along with their collaborators, whose work is leading to changes in practice, thinking or capacity on local, national and/or international scales. We encourage applications that can demonstrate the impact of engaged, collaborative and/or co-designed research for social, cultural, economic, civic, health and/or environmental benefit.
Winner: N2O: Know The Risks
N2O: Know the Risks is a nitrous oxide public health initiative backed by QMUL research. Staff and students from the Wolfson are delivering novel interactive game-based workshops to local groups and young people, in partnership with Tower Hamlets charity the Osmani Trust.
The panel were extremely impressed by the project's impact on national nitrous oxide healthcare guidelines and growing influence on how other cities' are tackling nitrous oxide abuse. In addition, they and their partners have established a clinical pathway and outreach campaign that has reached thousands of people, thanks to their community-driven approach to a new public health challenge.
Watch below to learn more about the work N20 and QMUL are doing for East London:
Queen Mary research partnerships in East London - N2O Know the Risks
Highly Commended
Steven Eastwood is Professor of Film Practice in the School of Arts. His most recent feature The Stimming Pool (2024) was co-created with The Neurocultures Collective and premiered at CPH:DOX, before embarking on a world film festival tour including the 68th BFI London Film Festival. He was highly commended by the panel for his international recognition and reach, his collaborative approach to film-making and noted the huge potential for future impact.
David Leslie is Professor of Ethics, Technology and Society at DERI. He was highly commended by the panel for his strong international impact on AI use and ethics, and for his global profile and influence on UK national AI strategy.