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The President's Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researcher award celebrates individuals in the early stages of their research career, defined as those who have held a post that includes responsibility for developing their own research agenda.

There are two categories for this award, Starting & Consolidator.

These applications must be accompanied by letter(s) of support by users of your research beyond academia. Letters of support are not letters of reference from your current manager and/ or should not be from your department, faculty or research centre but can be from other faculties, where relevant, and should be highlighting evidence of your impact.

• Starting: applicants have between 2-7 years experience since completion of their PhD as of the closing date for applications.

  Prize: President’s Research Excellence and Impact medal and €5,000 research funding 

• Consolidator: applicants have between 7-12 years experience since completion of their PhD as of the closing date for applications.

  Prize: President’s Research Excellence and Impact medal and €5,000 research funding

Impact of winning the award

Winning awards can have a hugely positive impact on your career as a researcher.

WATCH previous winners of the President's Research Excellence and Impact Awards outline how winning the award has been for them.

How to apply

The application form is the same for both categories

President's Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researcher application form

Timeline

For further information please contact the Research Impact Officer, Yvonne.Kiely@ul.ie

Application and award process

1. Applications are made by email to researchimpact@ul.ie using the appropriate form.
2. The applicant for the President's Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researcher Awards must be a current ������ employee at the time of the award.
3. In the case of the President's Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researcher Awards, previous applications (excluding winners of that category) may be re-submitted for the awards in subsequent years, subject to their meeting the relevant eligibility criteria.
4. Applications for the President's Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researchers Award must be accompanied by a letter of support (a minimum of one letter and a maximum of two) from users of research beyond academia.
5. Applications for the President's Research Excellence and Impact Early Career Researchers Award must be accompanied by a one-page CV
6. Applicants are advised to stay within the word-count limit set on the forms. Submitted forms which exceed word-count limits will be disregarded.

Evaluation

The President’s Research Excellence and Impact Awards will be judged by the academic members of the Research Impact Committee who will make recommendations to the President and Vice President Research and Innovation for ratification. The panel will evaluate the eligible applications based on their demonstration of excellent research and articulated impact (beyond academia).

Excellence

Evidence of a sustained body of excellent research outputs within a discipline or beyond.

Impact

Clearly articulated and evidence-based impact(s) of the research outputs. The reach and significance of the impact should be well articulated and evidenced. Research impact can be defined as “the demonstrable contribution that excellent research makes to society and the economy”.¹

This definition refers to ‘excellent research’; in other words, research that is recognised internationally for its originality, significance and/ or rigour. For early career researchers the focus can also be on ‘potential impact’ and ‘pathways to impact’ as appropriate.

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