Past winners
09 Winners
Business Impact Award
Winner: The University of Manchester Intellectual Property Ltd (UMIP), Transitive
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From left to right: Kim Hayward, BDO Stoy Hayward (category sponsor), Lita Nelsen MBE (award presenter and Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office), Dr Rich Ferrie UMIP
Description
A unique "cross-platform virtualisation" software that allows any software application to run on any processor and operating system, breaking these hardware/software dependency issues for the first time. The software, called QuickTransit®, is now the most widely used virtualisation solution in the world
Team: Alasdair Rawsthorne, Transitive; Heather White, Head of Technology & Humanities Group, UMIP
Environmental Impact Award
Winner: The University of Nottingham, The microwave exfoliation of vermiculite
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From left to right: Dr Alison Campbell, Praxis Chair (category sponsor), Dr Barry Stickings The University of Nottingham, Lita Nelsen MBE (award presenter), Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office.
Description
Linking microwave expertise, market knowledge and funding sources together to develop a new low-energy processing technology resulting in wider unexpected environmental benefits, such as reduced dust and hot air production further enabling energy reduction as well as health and safety improvement through removal of large dust control equipment.
Team: Professor Sam Kingman, Dr Chris Dodds, Dr George Rice, Dr Georgios Dimitrakis, University of Nottingham
Public Policy and Service Impact Award joint winners
Joint winner: Sancton Wood School/Anglia Ruskin University, The Learning Needs Profiler
Joint winner: The University of Liverpool, IMPACT - The International of Health Impact Assessment Consortium and IMPACT+
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From left to right: Dr Simon Longden (The University of Liverpool), Ros Rouse, Research Councils UK (category sponsor), Angela Barry and Eamon Strain (Sancton Wood/Anglia Ruskin University), Lita Nelsen MBE (award presenter and Director of the MIT Technology Licensing Office)
Sancton Wood School/Anglia Ruskin University, The Learning Needs Profiler
The Learning Needs Profiler (LNP)© developed in close collaboration between the University and the School provides, firstly, a tool for converting the complex information contained in an Educational Psychologist's report into an easy to interpret 'Learning Needs Profile', and secondly, by linking issues identified on the profile to systematically reviewed interventions, with clear information concerning the empirical evidence supporting that intervention.
Team: Daniel Sturdy, Angela Barry, Sancton Wood School and Holme Court School; Eamon Strain, Simon Daly, Anglia Ruskin University
The University of Liverpool, IMPACT - The International of Health Impact Assessment Consortium and IMPACT+
IMPACT's mission is to improve health and reduce health inequalities by advancing Health Impact Assessment (HIA) nationally and internationally. HIA is "a combination of procedures, methods and tools by which a policy, program or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population" (European Centre for Health Policy/WHO, 1999). HIA produces evidence-based recommendations to inform planning and decision-making.
Team: Dr Alex Scott-Samuel, Debbie Abrahams; Hilary Dreaves, Ms Fiona Haigh, Andrew Pennington, Dr Helen West, Dr Sue Povall, Sophie Grinnell, Mrs Fran Bailey, Anne Dawson, Mrs Christine McLoughlin, IMPACT/IMPACT+; Dr Kerron Harvey, Mark Ratcliffe, Nick Palmer, Jane Windsor, all knowledge transfer representatives from the University of Liverpool