And the winners are...

MRS CEO Jane Frost has just finished presenting the MRS Annual Conference Awards.

The winners are:

Best Workshop: Jen del Carlo, director, DVL Smith and Catherine Starkey, head of insight capability, SAB Miller for The Devil is in the detail

Best Session:Tales of the unexpected: Narrative techniques that drive new understanding chaired by Caroline Hayter, co-founder, Acacia Avenue.

Best Newcomer: Giles Colborne, managing director, cxpartners for Reacting in real time: Agile research in the digital age

Best Presenter: Gemma Jones, Space Doctors; Tim Jones, InterContinental Hotels Group; and Robin Pharoah, ESRO.

Best Overall Contribution to Conference: Chloe Fowler, director, Razor Research; Mark Allen, research executive, Discovery Research; Jon Hildrew, brand & market evaluation manager, Boots; Lucy Baldwin, senior research executive, Voodoo Research; Alice Ellen, research executive, Crowd DNA; and Owen McAleer, research executive, The Big Picture for The MRS Book Club: fiction for fuel.