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The SGSSS Impact Competition celebrates “the demonstrable contribution that excellent research makes to society and the economy”. PhD researchers submit examples of the impact that they have created, or plan to create, through their work.
Approximately 40 students applied to the Impact Competition in 2024, and 7 students were shortlisted across the categories “planned impact” and “achieved impact”. The finalists created videos and posters which were put to a public vote and SGSSS received almost 1000 public votes to help us identify the winners. You can see the details of all the shortlisted candidates below.
The winners of the SGSSS Impact Competition 2024 are:
Shona’s project Health Outcomes following childbirth for women who use opioids: An administrative data study will enhance our understanding of long-term postnatal outcomes of women who use opioids during pregnancy. The research will provide policymakers and service providers evidence required to inform the development of policies and guidelines to improve outcomes for women who use substances both during their pregnancy and postnatally. Improving the health of women in turn has the potential to improve outcomes for their children and wider families.
Anna’s work, Nurses’ embodied experience of emotion when caring for patient-related, emotionally overwhelming events: trauma-informed inquiry has been able to offer a bottom-up change to nurses’ realities, giving them the chance to be heard in their embodied experience of practice. The research explores emotions in acute contexts of care, where nurses are constantly witnessing life-threatening events. Post-pandemic times are now revealing the profound impact that emotional and physical exhaustion can have on nurses with consequences in their long-term well-being and capacity to hold on to the profession. By opening a dialogue with stakeholders in NHS Lothian Anna created impactful change into nursing practice at local level, aiming now to reach an international audience to showcase the qualitative output/data that has been produced as a building block for the development of a niche of future knowledge within the nursing field and beyond.
The SGSSS Impact Competition aims to champion a culture of creating meaningful impact across the SGSSS student community and the wider public.
The competition is open to all Social Science PhD students across Scotland, no matter how your research is funded.
There are two categories, depending on your year of study:
Achieved impact: This is designed to showcase impact that has already been achieved, at least in part. This category is open for students in their second or third year of study (or part time equivalent).
The application process for Impact Competition 2024 is online using SGSSS Apply. To apply for either the planned or achieved impact categories.There are two stages to the application process.
Successfully shortlisted candidates will be invited to the annual SGSSS Collaboration Showcase at the V&A Dundee where the winners will be announced.
Please only submit an application if you are able to commit to participating in both stages of the application process.
Full details are available in the competition guidelines.
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