Invited speaker at the NCRI schools event, which welcomed a number of Scottish secondary schools to a satellite event at the NCRI cancer conference.

Susan Heavey and her colleague Hayley Pye launched a YouTube channel in 2018 entitled 'Cancer Research Demystified', which aims to bring cancer patients and their loved ones into the lab to see what happens to their donated specimens, what kinds of things researchers work on and what life as a cancer researcher is like. They also maintain associated Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Reddit profiles with over 2,000 followers, to enable wider sharing of the videos along with direct discussion of research with the general public.

Personal fellowship (three years) to investigate spatial transcriptomics approaches to assess response to drug combinations in 3D models of cancer.

Visiting scientist position in the Lee lab for three months, receiving training and conducting research in emerging spatial genomics approaches.

Travel award to present at a symposium on signalling pathways in cancer.

Scholar in training award to present at a special conference on targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in cancer.

Poster prize for the 'basic science' category at the BTOG annual conference.

Poster prize in the 'translational medicine' category, at the 9th international cancer conference.

Medal given to the highest marked thesis from any student within the School of Biochemistry and Immunology.