2025 Impact Award Winners

At UKAIRS 2025 we presented 'Impact Awards', a competition inviting participants to share how their work drives impact and real-world change. Our expert panel carefully reviewed each submission and selected truly outstanding entries.

The winners were: 'Constant Washing Machine: Re-thinking responsible AI as an everyday practice and across the AI research community' created by award-winning art collective Blast Theory curated by Hannah Redler-Hawes (ODI Associate: Director, Data as Culture) through the Open Data Institute’s Data as Culture programme. Congratulations to the team Hannah, Denis Newman-Griffis and Susan Oman, The University of Sheffield for their inspiring artworks, with the most modest of objects, a bar of soap, acting as a reminder that responsible AI is dependent on daily habits and culture rather than policies or regulations.

The other finalists were Caterina Moruzzi, The University of Edinburgh and Marc Thomas & Nick Pepper The Alan Turing Institute. The Impact Awards recognised that responsible AI is not just about innovation in labs it’s about creativity, accountability, and research that connects deeply impacts the society!