  The winners are...
It’s been a busy few weeks as researchers and research teams finalised and submitted their innovative projects for this year’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) Research Excellence Awards.
The judging panel made their decisions and the wait was finally over, with the winners of six award categories crowned at an online awards ceremony on Wednesday 4 December.
We are delighted to announce the winning projects:
Impact of Analysis Award
Dr Katie Hunter
Understanding the intersections between ethnicity, care experience and youth justice involvement
This project uses newly linked administrative datasets from the Ministry of Justice and Department for Education to explore how children who have been in out of home care and children from racially minoritised backgrounds are disproportionately drawn into the youth justice system in England.
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Impact of Analysis Award
Allen Joseph and Whitney Crenna-Jennings
Early adult outcomes for suspended and excluded pupils.
This research demonstrates that young people who are suspended during secondary school experience a range of poorer outcomes in late adolescence and early adulthood compared with their peers.
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Impact of Analysis – Collaboration with Government Award
Christina Palmou, Jakob Schneebacher and Thiemo Fetzer
How do firms cope with economic shocks in real time?
This work builds a new toolbox, (high-frequency linked microdata, a pre-analysis plan and flexible econometric tools) to estimate firm responses to economic shocks in near real-time.
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ADR UK Research Excellence Award
Dr Kitty Lymperopoulou
Ethnic inequalities in the Criminal Justice System
This research addresses knowledge gaps on wide ethnic disparities in the Criminal Justice System highlighted in recent government reports. It provides evidence on the extent and drivers of ethnic disparities, identifying effective ways of addressing them.
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Secure Data Creation Award
The ECHILD team
Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD)
The ECHILD project has enabled linkage of multi-agency data to provide a more holistic understanding of children's lives and how they interact with services spanning health, education and social care.
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Organisational Excellence Award
Damian Whittard and the DRAGoN team
Data Research, Access and Governance Network (DRAGoN)
This is a multi-disciplinary research group that aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, think-tanks, industry and government. They aim to improve tools, operations and skills in relation to output checking in Trusted Research Environments.
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People’s Choice Award
The Virus Watch team
Virus Watch
This work led to the creation of a new linked dataset in 2020, that provides evidence on which public health approaches are most effective in reducing transmission of COVID-19. The dataset also enables investigation of community incidence, symptoms and transmission of the virus, in relation to population movement and behaviours.
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Huge congratulations to all our winners. We look forward to them joining us for the Research Excellence Series 2025, where you find out more about their winning projects.
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