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The Social Sciences Impact Awards celebrate social science colleagues of all career stages across the University of Oxford and Oxford Brookes University who are making significant contributions to society or the economy through meaningful collaboration with non-academic partners.

The Impact Awards are supported by the University of Oxford's ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, in partnership with Oxford Brookes University.

Winners of the 2025 Social Sciences Impact Awards

Dr Jennifer Seddon, School of Psychology, Social Work and Public Health

Improving patient care for people prescribed medicines with a risk of dependence

Alan Sanchez Jimenez, Senior Quantitative Researcher, Young Lives

Informing legislative change to ban child marriage in Peru

Prof Sabina Alkire, Director, Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative

Addressing multidimensional poverty in developing nations

Highly Commended impact stories

Dr Mona Ibrahim smiles to camera. In the background is the Impact Awards branding and a flower arrangement.

Using conflict-sensitive interventions as building blocks for recovery in Sudan

Alessio Bertolini and Jonas Valente smile to camera. In the background is the Impact Awards branding and a flower arrangement.

Raising standards for workers in the global digital economy

Dr Six Silberman and Aislinn Kelly-Lyth smile to camera. In the background is the Impact Awards branding and a flower arrangement.

Regulating algorithmic management to ensure a fairer future for workers

Dr Andriani Fili and colleague smile while holding their 2025 Social Sciences Impact Award

The open-source database exposing human rights violations in Greek detention facilities

Contact us

The Impact Awards are supported by the University of Oxford's ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, in partnership with Oxford Brookes University. For more information contact esrciaa@socsci.ox.ac.uk

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