HSE Open Access Research Awards 2022

The 9th annual HSE Open Access Research Awards are now open for entry.

The awards celebrate practitioners and researchers working across health and social care disciplines in Ireland who are publishing and making their research available in Open Access format.

The awards are judged across a number of categories, and for 2022 the categories are:

Acute Care and Hospitals

Community and Social Care

Mental Health and Disabilities

Integrated Services

Climate or Environmental Health

Entries will be reviewed by a panel of judges with research experience. There will be a prize for each category, and an overall winner will also be selected as representing the best of all submissions received.

This year there will be a special Innovation prize to recognise outstanding developments in practice or service delivery.

Winners will receive a custom piece of glassware celebrating their achievement.   

Criteria for Entry

Entries must fulfil the following criteria:

• The research must have been published within the past two years (24 months)
• The research must be available in full text in an Open Access forum (and added to the Lenus repository as a condition of entry)
• At least one author must be working for or on behalf of the health services

Entries close on Friday October 28^th 2022 and the winners will be announced in early December. Enquiries about the awards can be directed to lenus@hse.ie.   

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