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Good Citizen Awards

In general, we expect our members to contribute where they can in a variety of ways to help the Centre function and serve its members better. Some individuals, however, go above and beyond the requirements of their role to enhance the life of the Centre. With the Good Citizen Awards we want to recognise and celebrate these exceptional contributions.

We have awarded Good Citizen Awards in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 and 2025, recognising efforts in the broad areas of open science, education and training, research culture, EDI, public engagement, promoting collaboration, and the special category 'lockdown hero' during times of Covid-19 restrictions. The award winners’ achievements are a testament to the power of kindness and empathy, and their belief in creating a better workplace environment.

2019

The inaugural ‘all-round good egg’ award went to Mike Sanders, Nancy Rawlings and Sana Suri. In the Open Science category the contributions of Cassandra Gould van Praag and Verena Heise were recognised. Winners in the Education and Training category were Tom Okell, Mark Chiew and Ludo Griffanti. Sean Fitzgibbon and Paul McCarthy were awarded for their contribution in developing tools. In the ‘One WIN’ category awards went to Seb Rieger and Urs Schuffelgen, and Andy Segerdahl won the EDI award. Amy Howard, Tom Smejka, Ioana Grigoras, David Parker and Romina Mariano were recognised for their contributions to public engagement.

2020

The 2020 ‘all-round good egg’ award went to Michiel Cottaar, Sue Field and Nico Filippini for going beyond their role.

Saad Jbabdi and Taylor Hanayik were rewarded for their contribution to training. Charlie Stagg was rewarded for her contribution to career development and mentoring. Jasleen Jolly and Cristiana Tisca were recognised for their work towards EDI. Fidel Alfaro Almagro was recognised for his work towards Open Science. Will Clarke, Tom Marshall and Anna-Katharina Bauer were awarded ‘One WIN’ for bringing WIN together through seminars and meetings they had organised.

Finally, Duncan Mortimer, Sarah Clayton, David Parker and John Campbell were all recognised as lockdown heroes for keeping WIN operational during this challenging time.

2021

Two ‘all-round good eggs’ were awarded this year: Clare O'Donoghue was recognised for her work supporting translational research. Andrew Quinn was recognised for his support of people and projects at OHBA.

Kaitlin Krebs, Emma Cernis, Madalena Fonseca, Susie Murphy, Jacinta O'Shea​ were jointly awarded for their work on THRIVE, focused on mental health in the workplace. Maz Asbury was recognised for her wide-ranging contributions to EDI at WIN. Betina Ip was acknowledged for her contributions to career development and public engagement. Kaitlin Krebs and Iske Marshall were recognised for their efforts in helping WIN to navigate open publishing. Pieter Pretorius was recognised for his continual support of WIN’s incidental findings process. Mohamed Tachrount was acknowledged for his efforts with keeping preclinical scanning operational through the pandemic.
 
Finally, Andrew Galloway, Ludo Griffanti, Laurence Hunt and Saad Jbabdi were all recognised as lockdown heroes for organising this year’s online graduation for those who could not attend one in person.

2023

The 2023 winners in the broad categories of research culture, engaging others, and enabling collaboration were:

Improving research culture:

Benjamin Tendler has promoted lab handbooks across the Centre, assembling resources and delivering workshops to spread best practice. Mark Chiew put enormous effort into leading a working group that produced guidelines for organising inclusive events and a toolkit for diverse hiring. Raihaan Patel has supported research culture and the career development of others. Frederik Lange took a leading role in the Analysis Module of the WIN Graduate Programme, bringing online sessions back into the classroom in a hybrid format, and has been a passionate and proactive educational leader.

Engaging others’ with WIN’s research:

Lucy Starling developed a special engagement event which demonstrated how engagement can benefit both researchers and participants. Morgan Mitchell has been instrumental in starting activity to address issues with inequality in research practice. Melanie Fleming has engaged with charity partners, policymakers and patient representatives to improve the relevance and real-world impact or our research.

Enabling collaboration and the smooth running of projects:

Aaron Hess drove forward a project to establish a research PACS system at OUH, using his technical expertise and creative methods to engage with the people we needed. Clemence Ligneul helped multiple projects get off the ground, signing off individuals for licensed rodent procedures, optimising MR sequences and analysis pipelines, and organising preclinical imaging meetings. Jon Campbell and Sebastian Rieger enabled the development of a first-in-man ultrasound device. Caroline Harbison and Shuyi Luo have gone out of their way to help others in re-establishing TMS labs and in-person testing procedures following lockdown and relocation of elements of Experimental Psychology. Anna Camera has become the lynchpin for the smooth running of research at OHBA, contributing her positive energy and intelligence and going above and beyond.

2025

The 2025 Good Citizen Awards were awarded at our OxCIN launch event in April 2025, and symbolise our continuing commitment to an ambitious, collaborative, inclusive and kind workplace as OxCIN.

Bernd Taschler was recognised for his exceptional efforts and supportive, inclusive leadership style as lead of the Open WIN Ambassadors Programme.

In the area of enabling collaboration, Sean Smart has been instrumental in improving our science, building a healthy lab culture and helping the Centre run smoothly.

Carinne Piekema and Hanna Smyth were acknowledged for their commitment to embedding EDI values in the Centre's engagement activity, including finding creative ways to reach underrepresented communities.

In the Training category awards went to Rezvan Farahibozorg for her work on the Graduate Programme, WINGS, FSL Course and Analysis Group meetings, and to Marieke Martens for her contributions to the Graduate Programme and WINGS.

Public, policy and community engagement awards went to Camille Lasbareilles, Lucy Jobbins, Rebecca Willis, Megan Groombridge and Barbara Robinson for their continued contributions to the Centre's engagement activities and strategy. Eugenie La Grange was recognised for the positive and proactive attitude with which she supports the Centre, including many contributions to public engagement.

Clemence Ligneul has been a driving force behind the WIN Community as well as training initiatives such as ECR events and methods days. Juju Fars and Danielle Hewitt were recognised for the fantastic work they have done in raising the visibility of the WIN Community, including the Community Fair.

Finally, Polytimi Frangou was nominated in so many different categories that the only appropriate way to recognise her wide range of contributions to teaching and training, public engagement, WIP organisation and positive research culture is the All Round Good Egg Award.

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