Team of the Year Award 

Team working is core to HDR UK’s mission. This award celebrates collaborative endeavours by groups of researchers, innovators, technologists etc working together within the HDR UK. Members of the HDR UK community were able to nominate a team or propose their own for HDR UK Team of the Year. 

Overall winner: 

Additional COVID-19 themed winner:

Highly commended 

Find out more about this prize and view the selection committee here.


 

Impact of the Year Award 

HDR UK aims to unite the UK’s health data to enable discoveries that improve people’s lives. This award was open to pieces of work that had contributed to this goal, including clinical practice or policy, algorithms, software, publications and more. 

Winner:

Highly commended 

Find out more about this prize and view the selection committee here. 


Early Career Lightning Talk Award 

Selected early career researchers, technologists and innovators from the HDR UK community presented their work with health data as a 3-minute lightning talk at the HDR UK annual conference. Attendees voted live for the most impactful presentation. 

Winner: 

  • Alvina Lai, UCL, HDR UK London: Real-time hospital cancer data, excess deaths and a questions for the Prime Minister

Runners up:

  • Claire Niedzwiedz, University of Glasgow, HDR UK Scotland: Ethnic and socioeconomic inequalities in SARS-CoV-2 infection
  • Joram Posma, Imperial College London, HDR UK London: Monitoring diet more accurately to aid healthy living in a post-COVID society

Find out more about this prize, the shortlisted and highly commended applications, as well as view the selection committee here. 


Congratulations to all, and thanks to everyone who nominated a Team of the Year or Impact of the Year or applied to do a Lightning Talk at the One Institute Annual Conference.