LSE Impact Prize

These prizes will showcase and celebrate the inspiring engagement and impact work achieved across the School

Professor Elizabeth Stokoe, Academic Director of Impact

Impact is the benefit that LSE research brings about that leads to the betterment of society across any type of impact via any pathway.

Key details

There are 6 prize categories, which can be awarded to individuals or teams.
£7.5K prize money must be used for future engagement and impact activities.
Applicants can apply directly or on behalf of someone else
Applications are open to LSE employees in any job family (externals can’t receive monies but will be invited to the ceremony).
All applicants will be invited to a prize-giving ceremony on Wednesday 25 June from 4-6pm.
Application forms should be submitted to research.impact@lse.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 9 May.

Prize categories

1. Outstanding individual impact: For excellence in impact achieved by an individual member of staff

2. Outstanding team impact: For excellence in impact achieved working as a team (e.g. across researchers, professional services, external non-academic organisations, etc)

3. Outstanding PhD researcher impact: For excellence in impact achieved during or within a year of completing PhD research
(Must be employed at LSE as a postdoc or Fellow or RA, if after end of PhD. Current PhD students must be at LSE for 2025/26 academic year to receive the prize money.)

4. Rising star: For impact achieved by an early career researcher

5. Outstanding engagement: For innovation and achievement in science communication, translating research insights in open and accessible ways, and/or thought leadership in these domains

6. Outstanding impact culture: For innovations and achievement in fostering and embedding positive, inclusive and ethical impact environments, and/or thought leadership in these domains