Researchers behind last year's momentous Hillsborough
Independent Panel report are up for a national award.
Findings made thanks to the team, led by panel member
Professor Phil Scraton, revealed key new information which highlighted serious
flaws in previous investigations.
Today it was announced the researchers, based at Queen's
University in Belfast, had been nominated for the Times Higher Education
Research Project of the Year award.
Prof Scraton was the primary author of the panel's report,
which detailed 153 key findings over 395 pages.
He said: "It is the families of those who lost their
lives and those have lived with the trauma of survival, who deserve the
greatest credit for their remarkable courage, dignity and resilience in
accessing the truth and challenging the myths of Hillsborough.
"This nomination reflects their persistence over two
decades against considerable opposition.
"It is also recognition of the excellent, painstaking
and challenging research conducted by the Queen's research team and my
colleagues on the panel."
Chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group Margaret
Aspinall said: "We were so pleased and proud to hear that Professor Phil
Scraton has been nominated for the UK's academic research project of the year.
"The work undertaken by Phil over the past 24 years
and, more recently, in managing the panel's research and uncovering the truth
of Hillsborough, has made a huge and positive contribution not only to the
Hillsborough families and survivors, but also to the city of Liverpool, the
people of Merseyside and the UK, and indeed it has had global impact."
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