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Ceremony

Winners of the 2025 Awards were announced at a ceremony on Thursday 22 May, hosted by Prof Julian Blow, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Innovation.

The winners of the Innovation and Impact Awards 2025 are:

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Winner: YakBit – the inclusion focused training tool: Mary-Jo Hill (NBS alumna)

Knowledge Exchange Project of the Year

Winner:

Knowledge Transfer Partnership: Embedding an innovative materials science and digital skills approach to transform healthy snack product development, processes and production: Prof Sheng Qi (CPP) and Dr Tomás Harrington (NBS)

Outstanding Commercialisation of Research

Winner:

Commercialisation of the Norwich Human Gut Platform to accelerate development of improved treatments for gastrointestinal disease: Dr Mark Williams (BIO)

Outstanding Impact in Health, Wellbeing and Welfare

Winner:

Cessation of Smoking Trial in the Emergency Department (COSTED): Dr Ian Pope and Prof Caitlin Notley (MED)

Outstanding Impact in Policy and Practice

Winner:

Protecting society and preventing harm: Policy innovation in platform regulation: Dr Sally Broughton Micova (PPA)

Outstanding Social or Cultural Impact

Winner:

Penning Poison: neighbours and anonymous Wicked Little Letters: Dr Emily Cockayne
(HIS)

Partnership of the Year

Winner:

Tastebuds Collective Limited – the collective for food and drink innovators: Alex Larter (RIN)

Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Achievement

Winner:

Maintaining birth family contact for adopted children: supporting changes in professional culture and practice: Prof Elsbeth Neil (SWK)

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