Vice Chancellor’s Research Prizes 2016

9/11/2016

Celebrating the scope, ambition and success of research at Queen's

We are pleased to announce the individuals who have been shortlisted for the Vice Chancellor’s Research Prizes for 2016. The successfully shortlisted individuals have been invited to attend the annual Chief Executives' Club Gala on Friday, 18 November 2016, where the Vice Chancellor will announce the winner in each of the four categories. The winners will each be awarded prizes of £3,000.

The shortlisted individuals in each prize category are as follows (listed alphabetically by surname within each caegory):

RESEARCH IMPACT

Applicant	School (Faculty)	Title of Application
Professor Martin Atkins	School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (EPS)	Green Lizard Technologies: Commercialisation of Green Innovations
Dr Lorraine Martin	School of Pharmacy (MHLS)	ProAxsis Ltd – The Journey from Proof of Concept to Successful Spin Out
Professor Fearghal McGarry	School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics (AHSS)	Remembering 1916: Marking the Centenary of the Easter Rising

RESEARCH INNOVATION

Applicant	School (Faculty)	Title of Application
Miss Kathy Hetherington	School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences – Centre for Experimental Medicine (MHLS)	FeNO Suppression and INCA Testing in Difficult Asthmatics
Professor Dan Longley and Professor Tim Harrison	School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences – Centre for Cancer Research and Cell Biology (MHLS)	Pre-clinical Discovery and Clinical Development of Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors of the Anti-apoptotic Protein FLIP: New Therapeutic Opportunities for the Treatment of Hard to Treat and Refractory Disease
Professor Christopher Marsh	School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics (AHSS)	Hit Songs and their Significance in Seventeenth-Century England

POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH

Applicant	School (Faculty)	Title of Application
Dr Anna Bryson	School of Law (AHSS)	Law, History and Transitional Justice: Interdisciplinarity, Imagination and Impact
Dr Cosimo Inserra	School of Mathematics and Physics (EPS)	The Brightest Stellar Explosions in the Universe
Dr Myra Lydon	School of the Natural and Built Environment (EPS)	Bridges to the Future

EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER

Applicant	School (Faculty)	Title of Application
Dr Kieran Connell	School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics (AHSS)	Impact, Interdisciplinarity and Innovation: Researching Contemporary British History
Dr Trung Q Duong	School of Electronics, Electoral Engineering and Computer Science (EPS)	Tackling the Capacity Crunch for Future Wireless Communications Networks
Dr Kate Woodcock	School of Psychology (EPS)	Isolating the Role of Factors, which may constitute Productive Psychological Intervention Foci, on Children’s Disruptive Behaviours; and Developing and Evaluating Interventions Designed to Act on These Foci