Dorothy Bishop Prize Winners 2025

The Dorothy Bishop Prize celebrates the contributions of early career researchers working to promote open research and improve research culture. A fantastic range of research disciplines were represented in this year’s nominees including anthropology, business applications of operations research, criminology, digital humanities, engineering, environmental humanities and social sciences, epidemiology, health economics, history, immunology, linguistics, medical statistics, molecular biology, neuroscience, pain research, palaeontology and psychology. All 19 nominees are frontrunners in responsible research practice in their field, affecting real change by raising awareness, providing training and doing important advocacy work to foster a healthy research culture.

Each winner receives a £500 prize and a Lego minifigure of Dorothy Bishop (a Doscar).

We are delighted to say that this year’s winners are Michael Biddle, Lewis Jones and Annayah Prosser.

Michael Biddle
Michael is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Leicester and Co-Lead of the Only Good Antibodies Community. His work involves improving the reproducibility of Biomedical research by characterising antibodies and openly sharing the data in collaboration with several manufacturing partners. Learn more about Michael’s work here.

“I am extremely grateful to have my work recognised by the Dorothy Bishop Prize and I would like to thank all our collaborators who have supported the improvement of reproducibility within this field”

Lewis Jones
Lewis is a NERC Independent Research Fellow within the Department of Earth Sciences at University College London, focusing on reconstructing the evolutionary history of marine biodiversity hotspots. He is also the founder of Palaeoverse an organisation aiming to bring the palaeobiological community together to share resources, reach agreed standards, and improve reproducibility in the field. Learn more about Lewis’s work here.

“I am incredibly honoured to receive the Dorothy Bishop Prize – I feel deeply passionate about promoting open research practises and it is something I am always aspiring to contribute towards in my field. Receiving this award has put a very big smile on my face and I believe it will go a long way in helping the Palaeoverse to continue to grow and support open science in palaeobiology. Thank you for this great honour!”

Annayah Prosser
Annayah is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Marketing, Business and Society at the University of Bath’s School of Management. Her work explores how qualitative methods are missing from open data guidelines, how qualitative researchers see openness and transparency, and provides guidance for considering open qualitative research across disciplines and contexts. Learn more about Annayah’s work here.

“I am delighted to receive the 2025 Dorothy Bishop Prize for my efforts to highlight qualitative perspectives in the open research conversation. A huge thank you to all my collaborators past, present and future! Without your support, collegiality, and enthusiasm none of this would have been possible. Congratulations to all the other nominees and winners, and thank you to UKRN for providing this important recognition to all of us.”

Congratulations to all 19 nominees, those shortlisted and the 3 winners. The Dorothy Bishop Prize is a wonderful opportunity for UKRN to recognize and celebrate early career researchers working within open research and improving research culture.