Humanities Innovation Week 2021 winners announced

We are delighted to announce the prize winners of Humanities Innovation Week 2021.

Researchers with meaningful innovations using humanities expertise and research and the potential to make an impact outside of academia took part in Humanities Innovation Week 2021, held in association with the School of Arts and Humanities.

The week-long challenge included a fully flexible programme of advice sessions, training and mentoring, with a £5,000 prize fund to help get the most exciting ideas off the ground.

The projects, project leads and affiliations are:

Competition winners

• First place – Prick Up Your Ears: cultural history audio trails – Dr Diarmuid Hester (Faculty of English and Emmanuel College)
• Second place – Developing a game-based app for learners of spoken Arabic – Dr Saussan Khalil (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)

Runners up

• Academic Bird: the school of critical thinking for a Chinese-speaking audience – Veronica Jingyi Wang (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
• Jewish Morocapp – Dr Vanessa Paloma Elbaz (Faculty of Music)

Many congratulations to the winners and runners up, and thank you to everyone who participated in Humanities Innovation Week 2021.