The SGSSS Impact Competition aims to champion a culture of creating meaningful impact across the SGSSS student community and to the wider public.
Following an exceptionally high standard of applications for Round 1 our review panel have chosen four Planned Impact and four Achieved Impact applicants to go through to the final of our Impact Competition 2025 and face the public vote to elect the winners of the competition.
The finalists are:
Planned Impact
- Jenna Gilmartin – Sorry We Missed You: The Unheard Voices of Independent Retail Gig Economy Delivery Workers and the Impact of the Employment Rights Bill on Labour Classification
- Rhoda Jiang – Going Further: A Critical Examination of Social Work’s Involvement in Preventing Youth Homelessness in Scotland
- Chithramali Rodrigo – Workplace menopause toolkit based on lived experiences
- Chloe Rebecca Ezou – Understanding the health and wellbeing of people involved with community justice in Scotland
Achieved Impact
- Claire Stainfield – Balancing Wildlife and Tourism: Exploring and Understanding Seal Tourism at Newburgh Seal Beach, Aberdeenshire
- Eilidh Lamb – “Creating Spaces for Children to Feel Seen and Heard: The Use of Space and Design in the North Strathclyde Bairns Hoose”.
- Winifred Maduko – Grassroots Interventions for Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Stewardship in Nigeria
- Martina Lippi – Negotiating inclusive early careers and the virtual workplace: Diminishing or increasing the disability divide?
Explore the finalists’ posters and videos and learn about the impact they are making, vote and share with your network! Help us to spread the word on how social science research can impact societies and economies.
Voting is anonymous and closes on Monday 12 May, 5pm.
