University of Manchester Sociology academics and postgraduate students have been recognised for sharing their research with audiences beyond the University. This year two very different projects shared the first prize in the staff category: Helen Holmes and Torik Holmes won for sharing their plastic recycling research with policymakers and consumers.

They organised recycling pop-up events, produced reports for households and policymakers, contributed to government and business consultations and achieved extensive media coverage of their One Bin project.

The other first prize winner is Penny Tinkler, for her Teenage Kicks exhibition at Glasgow Women’s Library, which also included intergenerational workshops exploring how gender shapes teenage experiences and later life. Teenage Kicks is based on Penny’s research on the teenage experiences of women now in their seventies and eighties.

Daniela Fazio Vargas  from The University of Manchester along with Carlos Pineda Ramos from The University of Bristol, won first prize in the postgraduate student category for an innovative essay on how artists, from filmmakers to painters, can contribute to peacebuilding, for the British Council Cultural Relations Collection.

Luciana Lang from The University of Manchester was highly commended in the staff category for a series of knowledge exchange events and a report on the role of faith spaces as social infrastructure. Manuela Latchoumaya from The University of Manchester was highly commended in the PhD student category for sharing her work exploring identity and belonging for French citizens of South Asian descent through online and in-person events and as a podcast guest.