Finalists by category

The Ruth Young Award for Research Implementation

Finding the forgotten: motivating military veterans to register with a primary healthcare practice
University of Chester Westminster Centre for Research in Veterans

The Place-ased Longitudinal Data Resource (PLDR)
University of Liverpool

The Life Link Clinic
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust - The Cheshire and Merseyside Rehabilitation Network

Award for Reducing Health Inequalities

 The Asthma Mapping Project
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Reducing air quality related inequalities through citizen science
Better Old Swan (BOS)

Suzanne Simpson: Tackling health inequalities for people with motor neurone disease
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Research Student of the Year

Helen Hartley
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and Edge Hill University

Gerri Sefton
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and University of Liverpool

Mandeep S. Bajwa
University of Liverpool and Liverpool Head and Neck Centre

Award for Research Capacity Building 

Increasing capacity for research delivery and implementing sustainable infrastructure
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Stockbridge in Stories
ForHousing

Clinical academia: the dream team collaboration
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan)

Transformation Award

Hope therapy service
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Spring House psychotherapy and personality disorder hub service
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

A collaborative approach to bringing experimental medicine research to Lancashire and South Cumbria
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Partnership in Innovation Award

Autism hubs
Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

My place: a natural way to wellbeing
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust and Lancashire Wildlife Trust

The SRAVI (speech recognition app for the voice impaired)
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Patient Safety Innovation Award

Early detection of deterioration in children in hospital to prevent critical care transfer – the DETECT study
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust and University of Liverpool

Reduced UK benchmark deaths post-stem cell transplantation
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

MINIMISE Moisture: a patient safety campaign to improve patient outcomes by reducing the incidence of moisture-associated skin damage
Liverpool Heart and Chest NHS Foundation Trust

Outstanding Contribution to Patient and Public Involvement

North West Coast Research Community
North West Coast Clinical Research Network

Patient and public-led involvement in health and care innovation
PIES: Patient Involvement and Engagement Senate

Community voices in an intervention to reduce inequalities in dental visiting
University of Liverpool

Culture for Innovation Award

Our cultural journey
FCMS/PDS Medical - Fleetwood Urgent Treatment Centre

EPIC
Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS

Well Halton
NHS Halton CCG

Research Rising Star of the Year

Dr Rachel Brooker
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Nichola Manu
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Ryan Robinson
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Excellence in Commercial Life Science Research

Researching effective treatments for premenstrual dysphoric disorder
Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Commercial gastroenterology research
St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 

Developing a commercial research relationship in a district general hospital
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Researcher of the Year

Dr Anna Olsson-Brown
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Dr Joe Sacco
The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Professor Carolyn Young
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust

Research Team of the Year

The DETECT research team
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust and University of Liverpool

Collaborative working: cardiovascular research team
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North West Coast Research Nurses

Improving access to research for patients in small rural GP practices and encouraging GP involvement in research in primary care
Central Lakes and Grange Research Team