Awards and achievements
Recognising and celebrating the excellence and rigour of IOE’s research engagement and impact.
IOE team win 2025 UCL Impactful Partnership with Public and Third Sector award
The winning team collaborated with civil society organisations in Lebanon and on the Thailand-Myanmar border on co-designing professional development for teachers in conflict and crisis settings.
IOE academic receives LSE's British Society for Population Studies Early Career Award
Dr Alina Pelikh received the BSPS's 2024 Early Career Award for her contributions to the field of family demography and transitions to adulthood.
UCL demographer’s work debunking ‘Blue Zones’ wins Ig Nobel prize
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at the 34th Ig Nobel Prizes 2024, revealing fundamental flaws in data about patterns of extreme longevity.
IOE academics highly commended in Medical Research Council Early Career Impact Prize
Drs Amy Harrison and Marta Francesconi were highly commended at the 2023 MRC Impact Prize ceremony for their research on decision-making skills and early signs of disordered eating behaviour.
IOE professor receives Distinguished Contribution Award from the British Psychological Society
The BPS’s Division of Educational and Child Psychologists (DECP) has chosen Professor Vivian Hill for the wide-ranging impact of her practice and her dedication to the development of psychology.
Research on early years education provision receives BERA Award
Longitudinal research by the University of Oxford and UCL IOE has won BERA's 2023 Public Engagement and Impact Award for how it has informed policy and practice in early years education.
Global gender equality and science aspirations research in BERA's report of high-impact work
Two pieces of IOE research featured in BERA's 2023 'Education: The State of the Discipline' report of research that is making a significant impact on educational policy, practice and understanding.
IOE Professor awarded inaugural Gunther Kress Scholarly Impact Award
Professor Carey Jewitt has been recognised for her work in the field of social semiotics and multimodality, awarded at the 2023 AERA (American Educational Research Association) conference.
IOE academics awarded UKRI prize for social and economic impact
Professors Heather Joshi and Lorraine Dearden have been recognised for their work in inequality and access to education at ESRC's 2022 Celebrating Impact Awards.
IOE academic awarded BERA award for research in quantitative education
Professor John Jerrim received BERA's 2022 Public Engagement and Impact Award for his work on PISA reporting standards, which has impacted policymaking in the UK and internationally.
IOE research centre wins BERA award for work supporting holocaust education
UCL Centre for Holocaust Education has won BERA's 2020 Public Engagement and Impact Award for work tackling widespread misconceptions about the Holocaust through teacher training and school support.
UCL researchers win ESRC Impact Award for their work on young people’s mental health
Academics from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies have won ESRC's 2020 Panel’s Choice Award for their research on mental health challenges faced by young people in the UK.
UCL researchers win ESRC Impact Award for their work on young people’s mental health
Academics from the UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies have won ESRC's 2020 Panel’s Choice Award for their research on mental health challenges faced by young people in the UK.