Open Access Research Publishing: Open Access Research Awards 2023

The tenth HSE Open Access Research Awards were presented in Dr
Steevens’ Hospital on Friday 15th December 2023, by Dr Philip Crowley
(centre right, National Director, Strategy and Research).

Since their inauguration in 2014, the awards have become an important part of the health
research calendar – something reflected in the extremely high
standard of entries.

This year the awards also featured a presentation by Laura Rooney
Ferris, describing a new HSE Library project funded by the National Open
Research Forum (NORF), “Building a Culture of Open Research for
Health and Social Care Practitioner Researchers”.

The HSE Open Access Research Awards external judge, Professor Jonathan Drennan, spoke about the themes arising from
this year’s entries. He admitted that the high standard of entries had made it particularly difficult for the judges to choose a winner – though of course they eventually did.

Prizes were awarded across five categories, with a Special Innovation Award and an Overall Winner award.

Acute Care and Hospitals: Fatal fetal anomaly: Experiences of
women and their partners by Keelin O'Donoghue and colleagues.

Community and Social care: Socio-ecological determinants of older
people’s mental health and well-being during COVID-19: A qualitative
analysis within the Irish context by Viveka Guzman and colleagues.

Mental Health and Disabilities: LGBT+ Youth Perspectives on Sexual
Orientation and Gender Identity Questions in the Growing Up in Ireland
Survey: A Qualitative Study by Nerilee Ceatha and colleagues.

Integrated Services: The Omentum in Obesity-Associated Cancer: A
Hindrance to Effective Natural Killer Cell Migration towards Tumour
Which Can Be Overcome by CX3CR1 Antagonism by Melissa Conroy
and colleagues.

Climate or Environmental Health: Public Health Measures to Address
the Impact of Climate Change on Population Health - Proceedings from
a Stakeholder Workshop by Samira Barbara Jabakhanji and colleagues.

Special Innovation Award: Breaking the Silence: Terminology
Guidelines for Data Collection on Sexual Violence Against Children by
Elaine Mears and colleagues.

Overall Winner: Applying a new approach to the governance of
healthcare quality at board level by Jennifer Martin and colleagues