 I'm really excited about winning this award. It is a real testament to the fact that working together in partnership between academics and support staff does create great outcomes and this is both for research and for teaching and other activities. I'm really pleased to say that after this award there's a whole new world that's waiting for me because I'm taking up a research post in the Astrobiology Unit at DOU so I'm going from a support function to a full research function. I think having an award is really motivating and so it will be motivating for me going forward to be recognised by the institution I work so passionately for but it will also be motivating for other people to see that there are ways in which the OU looks at their stuff as a really important resource.