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Early Career Award for Scientific Contributions to Digital Health and Behaviour Change
Awarded by the International Advisory Board on behalf of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change (Chair: Professor Susan Michie)
The Early Career Award for Scientific Contributions to Digital Health is awarded to individuals who have made significant contributions to advancing the science of improving health using digital or hybrid approaches to change behaviour.
Recipients of the award will receive a free registration to the 2021 CBC conference and a certificate and digital award logo to display on their email, personal and organisational websites. The award will be announced during the conference.
Eligibility criteria:
To be considered for this award candidates must fulfil all of the following criteria:
- They must have been awarded their PhD or equivalent higher research degree on or within five years of the conference date (07 April 2020).
- The work upon they which they are asking to be considered for the award must be related to improving health using digital approaches to behaviour change.
- They must have submitted an abstract to the 2020 CBC conference
In recognition of the global nature of the CBC conference, nominations can come from any part of the world.
Submission process:
If you feel that you (or the person you are nominating) meet the criteria for the award, then the following application/nomination form and supporting documents are to be submitted to behaviourchange@ucl.ac.uk:
- Completed application/nomination form:
- One-page CV including list of key publications relevant to the award
- PDF's of the two scientific, peer-reviewed publications that best showcase why you (the person you are nominating) should be considered for the award
We ask that applications are sent via email to behaviourchange@ucl.ac.uk no later than 23:59 on Sunday 23 March 2020
Award for Industry-Academic Collaboration
Awarded by the Scientific Committee on behalf of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change (Co-Chairs: Dr Felix Naughton and Dr Sarah Jackson)
This award recognises the unique contribution to science and practice that can be made by bringing together the expertise from academia and industry. The award is given to projects that demonstrate how industry and academia have collaborated to either; (a) further the scientific understanding of how to improve health using digital or hybrid methods to behaviour change, and/or (b) used scientific research to bring about innovation or transformative change to individual, community or population health. The project may be a discrete part of a larger on-going programme, or a standalone industry-academic partnership.
All submissions for consideration must reflect the collaborative nature of the award and should name at least one individual from industry and one from academia. Project teams from either industry or academia can be nominated but the submission should name one lead individual from each teams. Projects involving more than two organisations can also submit nominations.
Recipients of the award will receive two free tickets to the 2021 CBC conference and a certificate and digital award logo to display on their email and personal and organisational websites. The award will be announced during the conference.
Eligibility criteria:
- To be considered eligible for the award, submissions must fulfil all of the following criteria:
- The project must have started within three years of the conference date (07 April 2020), or if already completed, have finished within one year of the conference date
- The project must involve a collaboration between at least one industry and one academic institution
- The project must have produced outputs (e.g. conference proceedings, scientific papers, policy documents, industry reports)
- They must have submitted an abstract to the 2020 CBC conference
In recognition of the global nature of the conference submissions can come from any part of the world.
Submission process:
To nominate a project for the award then the following application/nomination form and supporting documents are to be submitted to behaviourchange@ucl.ac.uk:
- Completed application/nomination form:
- Up to two PDF's of publications that best demonstrate the value of the project in relation to the award
We ask that applications are sent via email to behaviourchange@ucl.ac.uk no later than 23:59 on Sunday 23 March 2020