Enter the Health and Care Research Wales Awards 2023

3 August

Nominations are now open for the Health and Care Research Wales Awards 2023, which will celebrate the achievements of Wales’ research community over the past 12 months.

The Awards 2023 are open to all health and social care researchers in Wales, including health and social care professionals, allied health professionals and wider affiliated research teams.

The categories for 2023 are:

Impact Award – can you demonstrate how your health or social care research is making a difference to people’s lives?
Rising Research Star Award - are you in the early stage of your health or social care research career? Are you making significant contributions to your field? Are you an emerging future leader?
Public Involvement Award - have you involved the public in your research in a meaningful and innovative way? Can you measure up against the UK Standards for Public Involvement?
Innovation in Practice Award – a new category for 2023; can you demonstrate how individuals or research teams have made an impact during research development, delivery or dissemination/implementation?

Last year’s winners

Last year’s awards recognised work across such diverse and groundbreaking areas as the use of health data during the COVID-19 pandemic, successfully involving members of the public in evaluating the work of GPs in Emergency Departments, the future of unpaid carers, and the connection between sleep and mental health.

Read more about last year’s winners here.

Could we be celebrating your research in 2023?

The winners will be decided by a panel of judges and announced live at the Health and Care Research Wales Conference at the Swansea Arena on Thursday 12 October 2023. The winner of each category will be awarded funding of up to £250* to attend a training course, conference, workshop or similar event to develop an area of their research skillset. (*Where possible this must be claimed within the current financial year, by 31 March 2024).

Professor Kieran Walshe, Director of Health and Care Research Wales, said: “The theme of our conference this year is people make research, and these awards are indeed a fantastic opportunity to recognise and reward the teams and individuals behind some of the often life-changing research happening in Wales.

"Each year the judges are both impressed and inspired by the quality and innovation of the research submitted. I’m sure this year will be no different, particularly in our new award category which celebrates Innovation in Practice across the entire research study process, from design to dissemination.”

Enter the awards

Please read the Health and Care Research Wales Awards 2022 guidance document for full details on eligibility and criteria for each award category.

Complete and submit the relevant entry form below and provide any supporting media as set out in the guidance document:

Closing date: 17:00 on 20 September 2023

All award entrants are encouraged to register and attend the Health and Care Research Wales conference. For more information and to register visit our conference webpage.