Staff

Title and Name of Recipient

Faculty/School

Formal Title of Award/Prize

Professor Peter Leavitt

School of Biological Sciences

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (elected November 2018)

Professor Mark Emmerson

School of Biological Sciences

Vice President of the British Ecological Society

Dr Lezley-Anne Hanna

School of Pharmacy

Higher Education Academy Principal Fellowship

Dr Paul McCague

School of Pharmacy

Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy

Dr Yiwei Tian

School of Pharmacy

Royal Academy of Engineering – Enterprise Fellow

Professor Michael Brown

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Dr Lynne Marsh

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

Dr Chantal Ski

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology

Dr Chantal Ski

School of Nursing & Midwifery

Elected as Council of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Health Professions (CCNAP) Science Committee Member

School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences

Dr Jaine Blayney

Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology

• Won The Data Scientist Category, Women In Tech Awards 2018, held at RDS Concert Halls, Dublin, 22^nd November 2018

• Was also one of 100 women to win a 2018 #TechWomen100 Individual Award from @WATC_WeAreTech.

Professor Mike Clarke

Centre for Public Health

• Role extended until October 2021 as Professor Extraordinary at the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
• Appointed External Assessor on the Programme Approval Plan for the MSC in Clinical Trials at University College Cork.

Dr Vikki O’Neill

Centre for Public Health

Appointed as an external affiliate at the Choice Modelling Centre, University of Leeds - https://cmc.leeds.ac.uk/profiles/vikki-oneill-queens-university-belfast/

Dr Joanna McHugh (former CARDI Research Fellow)

Centre for Public Health

Awarded the National College of Ireland President’s Award for Contribution to Research for the work she undertook on her CARDI Fellowship at QUB and for obtaining a recent HRB grant.

Professor Jayne Woodside

Centre for Public Health

Appointed as Honorary Publications Officer and Trustee of the Nutrition Society, with overall responsibility for their five journals: British Journal of Nutrition, Public Health Nutrition, Nutrition Research Reviews, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society and Journal of Nutritional Science.

Professor Usha Chakravarthy

Centre for Public Health

Awarded the 2019 J. Donald Gass Medal for International Excellence. 

Dr Tony O’Neill

Centre for Public Health

Appointed as Deputy Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry.

Professor Ian Young

Centre for Public Health

• Reappointed as a member of the UK Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition
• Appointed Chair of the Joint Committee on Traceability in Laboratory Medicine (JCTLM), based at The International Bureau Weights and Measures (BIPM) in Paris.

Rosana Penalva (Research Fellow)

Centre for Experimental Medicine

Awarded the Society for Neuroscience 2018 Trainee Professional Development Award.

Professor Alan Stitt.

Centre for Experimental Medicine

Has been elected a Vice-President, Europe for the International Society for Eye Research

Dr Ultan Power (Reader)

Centre for Experimental Medicine

Has been elected Chair of the International RSV Society, and will be in charge of organising the next International RSV Symposium which will be held in Belfast in 2 years’ time.