ESRC Outstanding Societal Impact Prize 2023

Many congratulations to our own Dr Vangelis Pitidis, who has been a key contributor to this award-winning project focusing on waterproofing data. The project used citizen generated data to tackle the impact of flooding and enhance disaster and community resilience in Brazilian marginalised communities. Further details about this exciting initiative can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/schoolforcross-facultystudies/igsd/newsevents/news/.

Director of Impact leads by example - excellent news and warmest congratulations, Vangelis!!!

SCFS Impact Lead, Dr Vangelis Pitidis, attended the 2023 Celebrating Impact ceremony Link opens in a new windowthat took place in the Royal Society representing IGSD as a member of the Waterproofing Data team. Waterproofing Data, a project that was born and largely implemented within IGSD, won the 2023 Outstanding Societal Impact Award for 2023, for the world-class and very impactful work on using citizen generated data to tackle the impact of flooding and enhnance disaster and community resilience in Brazilian marginalised communities. This is another example of the incredible impact our research at IGSD is having in improving the everyday lives of local citizens across the world!

IGSD, in School for Cross faculty Studies, is proud to announce the appointment of Dr Feng MaoLink opens in a new window as the new Director of Research and Dr Vangelis PitidisLink opens in a new window as the new Director Impact. Please join us to congratulate them both on this prestigious achievement and look forward to working on Warwick's REF 2028.Link opens in a new window

Celebrating Impact once again @uniofwarwick! Impact Newsletter Summer 2023 reminded us that @IGSD_UoW makes a strong impact across the board: Warm congrats to Dr Vangelis Pitidis once again for making a difference in the world as an Early Career Researcher!