Grateful to Receive the SST Dean’s Award 2026 for Research Excellence

~ Ernesto Priego
Panel depicting Ernesto Priego as a comic book charcter, taken from: Ernesto Priego, Linda Berube, Francisco de la Mora, Ian Cooke, Stephann Makri, and Stella Wisdom. 2023. UK Digital Comics: Challenges and Opportunities of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership. A Co-designed Comic Poster [Poster]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22717675.v2
Panel depicting Ernesto Priego as a comic book charcter, taken from: Ernesto Priego, Linda Berube, Francisco de la Mora, Ian Cooke, Stephann Makri, and Stella Wisdom. 2023. UK Digital Comics: Challenges and Opportunities of a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership. A Co-designed Comic Poster [Poster]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.22717675.v2

I’m very grateful to have been announced as a winner at the City St George’s, University of London School of Science and Technology Dean’s Award 2026 Ceremony (Tuesday 14 April), in Category 3: Research Excellence.

Thank you to everyone who kindly nominated me, to the awards committee, and to everyone who has supported me and has worked alongside me throughout the years.

This recognition is very much shared. I appreciate the encouragement and opportunities that made this possible. My most sincere thanks in particular (but not limited) to the Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design and everyone at City SG, The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, the Open Library of Humanities, and the British Library.

If you are reading this now, thank you for your support!

Onwards!

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My passion is creating opportunities for discovery, creativity and innovation. I am an advocate for enhanced access to information as a public good. I enjoy fostering engagement and openness, facilitating collaboration and mentoring. My main focus is multi-disciplinary and involves practically and theoretically connecting the dots between varied, closely-related fields and topics: comics studies; human-computer interaction design, library and information science, digital humanities, scholarly communications, publishing studies, digital innovation and material culture, intellectual rights and open science, access, data and educational resources. I love writing and spreading the word about the things I believe in. I love higher education and the Internet and I define myself as a digital scholarship advocate. I love working collaboratively and on my own. You can still follow me and/or contact me via Twitter @ernestopriego.