Chancellor's Award winners

2024 Chancellor's Award winners

Outstanding Contribution Award

Mr. Nial Moffat, Head of Security, Estates

Research Award

Professor Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford Professor of The Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, Centre for Technomoral Futures

Rising Star Award

Dr Katherine Atkins, Reader, Centre for Global Health in the Usher Institute

Teaching Award

Professor Meryl Kenny, Personal Chair of Gender and Politics, School of Social and Political Science

2023 Chancellor's Award winners

Outstanding Contribution Award

Dr. Lorraine Kerr, Senior Strategic Partnership Manager in Edinburgh Innovations

Research Award

Professor Guy Lloyd-Jones, Forbes Chair of Organic Chemistry, School of Chemistry

Rising Star Award

Dr. Deval Desai, Lecturer in International Economic Law, Edinburgh Law School

Teaching Award

Dr. Jeni Harden, the Reader based in the Usher Institute

Chancellor's Awards 2023 - staff news article

2022 Chancellor's Award winners

Outstanding Contribution Award

Dr Lisa Kendall, Director of Academic & Student Administration in the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Award

Professor Kenneth Baillie, holds a Personal Chair in Experimental Medicine, Baillie Gifford Pandemic Science Hub in the Centre for Inflammation Research

Rising Star Award

Dr Georgia Cole, Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Work, School of Social and Political Science

Teaching Award

Dr Ross Galloway, Director of Teaching, and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy

Chancellor's Awards 2022 - staff news article

2021 Chancellor's Award winners

Outstanding Contribution Award*

Lyndsay Wilkie, Director of Business Development and Occupancy in Accommodation, Catering and Events , Corporate Services Group

Research Award

Professor Aziz Sheik, Chair of Primary Care Research, Director of the Usher Institute and Dean for Data

Rising Star Award

Dr. Dave O’Brien,  Chancellor’s Fellow in the Cultural and Creative Industries based in Edinburgh College of Art

Teaching Award

Professor Tim Stratford, Director of Learning and Teaching in the School of Engineering

 

* this year the former Impact Award criteria were revised and the award renamed 'Outstanding Contribution Award'  to reflect its wider reach to include any staff group who would not previously have been considered under the research and teaching criteria.

Chancellor's Awards 2021 - staff Bulletin article

2020 Chancellor's Award winners

Impact Award

Professor Michael Eddleston, Personal Chair in Clinical Toxicology, Centre for Cardiovascular Science

Research Award

Professor Chris Speed, Chair of Design Informatics in Edinburgh College of Art

Rising Star Award - joint winners

Dr Ewa Luger is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Digital Arts and Humanities, Edinburgh College of Art

Dr Davide Michieletto, Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, School of Physics and Astronomy and the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine

Teaching Award

Dr Ruth McQuillan, Senior Lecturer and Programme Director online Masters in Public Health, Usher Institute

Chancellor's Awards 2020 - staff Bulletin article

2019 Chancellor's Award winners

Impact Award

Professor Richard Mellanby, Personal Chair of Comparative Medicine, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

Research Award

Professor Charles ffrench-Constant, Professorial Fellow and Dean of Research for the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine

Rising Star Award

Dr Jennifer Culbertson, Reader in Linguistics and English Language, School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

Teaching Award

Dr Alan Convery, Senior Lecturer in Politics, School of Social and Political Science

Chancellor's Awards 2019 - staff news article

2018 Chancellor’s Award winners

Impact Award

Professor David FitzPatrick, Joint Section Head: Disease Mechanisms, MRC Institute of Genetics & Molecular Medicine, Edinburgh Medical School

Research Award

Professor Richard Morris, Professor of Neuroscience, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, Edinburgh Medical School

Rising Star Award

Dr Beth Biller, Chancellor's Fellow, Institute for Astronomy, School of Physics and Astronomy

Teaching Award - joint winners

Professor Pete Higgins, Chair of Outdoor and Environmental Education, Moray House School of Education

Professor Dave Reay, Chair in Carbon Management and Education, School of GeoSciences

Chancellor's Awards 2018 - staff news article

2017 Chancellor’s Award winners

Impact Award

Professor Francisca Mutapi, Professor of Global Health Infection and Immunity, School of Biological Sciences

Research Award

Professor Polly Arnold, Crum Brown Chair of Chemistry, School of Chemistry

Rising Star Award - joint winners

Professor Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics

Dr Mirko Canevaro, Reader, School of History, Classics and Archaeology

Teaching Award - joint winners

Professors Charles Cockell, Chair of Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy

Alison Koslowski, Professor of Social Policy and Research Methods, School of Social and Political Science

Chancellor's Awards 2017 - staff news article

2016 Chancellor's Award winners

Impact Award - joint winners

Professor Lesley McAra, Assistant Principal Community Relations and Chair of Penology

Professor Susan McVie, Chair of Quantitative Criminology, School of Law

Research Award

Professor Andrew Rambaut, Chair in Molecular Evolution, School of Biological Sciences

Rising Star Award

Dr Sam Spiegel, Lecturer in International Development and Director of Research at the Centre of African Studies

Teaching Award

Dr Jessie Paterson, Lecturer in Student Learning, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

2015 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Brian Walker, Professor of Endocrinology and Head of British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science

Rising Star Award

Dr Louise Horsfall, Lecturer in Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences

Teaching Award

Dr Angus Bancroft, co-Director for Research Programmes in the Graduate School of Social and Political Science

2014 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Professor Margaret Frame, Science Director of the Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre; Research Director of the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Professor Jo Shaw, Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, Edinburgh Law School and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Rising Star Award

Dr Nicholas Mills, Reader in Cardiology; British Heart Foundation Intermediate Clinical Research Fellow; Consultant Cardiologist, the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

Teaching Award

Dr Elizabeth Bomberg, School of Social & Political Science

2013 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Professor Agata Smoktunowicz, School of Mathematics

Rising Star Award

Dr Catherine Heymans, Lecturer, School of Physics & Astronomy

Teaching Award

Professor Helen Cameron, Director of the Centre for Medical Education, College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

2012 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Igor Rudan, Chair in International Health & Molecular Medicine, Centre for Population Health Sciences

Rising Star Award

Dr Eve Hepburn, Senior Lecturer in Politics & International Relations, School of Social & Political Science; Depute Director of the Academy of Government

Teaching Award

Jamie Davies, Professor of Experimental Anatomy, Centre for Integrative Physiology

2011 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Mark Bradley, Professor of High-Throughput Chemistry, School of Chemistry

Rising Star Award

Dr Dominic Johnson, Reader in Politics & International Relations, School of Social & Political Science

Teaching Award

Sue Welburn, Professor of Medical & Veterinary Molecular Epidemiology, Director of the Global Health Academy

2010 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Professor Peter Sandercock, School of Molecular & Clinical Medicine; Head of Edinburgh Neuroscience

Rising Star Award

Dr Euan Brechin, School of Chemistry

Teaching Award

Professor O James Garden, Regius Professor of Clinical Surgery & Honorary Consultant Surgeon, School of Clinical & Surgical Sciences

2009 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Professors Harry Campbell and Malcolm Dunlop, School of Molecular & Clinical Medicine

Rising Star Award

Dr Giles Hardingham, School of Biomedical Sciences

Teaching Award

Dr John Lee, School of Informatics, School of Arts, Culture & Environment

2008 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Professor Joanna Wardlaw, Head of the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Rising Star Award

Dr Polly Arnold, School of Chemistry

Teaching Award

Dr Siân Bayne, School of Education

2007 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Professor David Leigh, School of Chemistry

Rising Star Award

Professor Donald Bloxham, School of History, Classics & Archaeology

Teaching Award

Professor Susan Rhind, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

2006 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Professor Donald MacKenzie, School of Political & Social Studies

Rising Star Award

Professor Stuart West, School of Biological Sciences

Teaching Award

Dr Simon Bates, School of Physics

2005 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Professor Jean Beggs, School of Biological Sciences

Teaching Award

Professor Jane Dawson, School of Divinity

2004 Chancellor's Award winners

Research Award

Professor David Porteous, Leader of the Molecular Medicine Centre

Teaching Award

Professor Allan Cumming, School of Medicine