The Student Voice & Impact Awards recognise and celebrate students who advocate and create change for the student experience, including Course Reps, Execs, Activists & Campaigners.
Your Students' Union is democratic and student-led, so these awards are perfect to showcase the value and impact your involvement has to the Warwick Community. Make sure to nominate your friends, inspirational students who've really pushed for change, or campaigners that have made impactful changes on campus. This years awards have a wide variety to showcase the many kinds of ways that students can have an impact through the Students Union here at Warwick, so check below for more details!
Please include text describing the reasons why you have put in your nomination as this will be used by the relevant forums to evaluate and rank nominations.
Make sure to nominate your friends, inspirational students and campaigners that have made impactful changes on campus.
As well as new award categories, the event itself will be bigger and better. This year, the awards evening will be hosted by a compere, there will also be performances from our student societies and awards will be presented by our Full-Time Officers (FTOs). Award categories will cover contributions to our academic structures, our democratic processes and the final award will be the Kevin Gately Award for Student Activism, in honour of the Warwick student Kevin Gately. In order to celebrate academics and university staff who contributed to your student experience, we have brought back a series of award categories that cover your university experience.
Has consistently engaged with the wider student population
Has made a positive impact on the student experience, enhanced the reputation of the Students’ Union or created positive change within the Union or local community. This could be through:
- lobbying
- campaigning
- writing policy
- other creative means
- The Forum has collaborated to achieve positive changes
- The forum has prioritised student voice
This award is open to all SU Forums
- Has excelled in representing their cohort
- Has brought their cohort together through networking
- They have formed partnerships across the student community to achieve positive change
- They have made a difference to the lives of students and staff
- Open to all academic reps
Jacquie Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to Democracy
- Open to all students who have made an outstanding contribution to democracy
- Someone/or a collective who engage with democratic processes to enact positive change
SU Forum Member of the Year
- This award recognises the SU Committee member who has shown outstanding commitment to their exec and has contributed to its successes
- They have supported other SU Forum members in their activities and helped achieve a positive impact for students
- This SSLC has engaged with the SU as well as their cohort, and made a positive impact on the student experience or created positive change within the Union or their department
- They are led by a great Chair and Sec and have great attendance and engagement with their Course Reps
Part-Time Officer of the Year
- A PTO who has demonstrated outstanding commitment to the role and achieved real impact for students whilst in office
- This award is open to all PTOs
Kevin Gately Award for Student Activism
- This award is for the great student activists within Warwick who develop change and inspire students to do the same
- These students are a big force on campus and ensure that students are prioritised within the Warwick Community
- This award can be for an individual or a collective of students
- It celebrates those who embody passion and dedication to drive meaningful change
Academic Staff of the year
- This award is for an outstanding all-round academician who is enthusiastic about their subject
- This academician is committed to developing and empowering students
- This academician is dedicated to exploring and embedding new pedagogies
Decolonise and Liberation Award
- This student/member of university staff/academic has championed students who are working on decolonise matters, both within the university and outside of it
- This student/member of university staff/academic may have supported student-led initiatives to expand the curriculum in light of EDI values
- This student/member of university staff/academic may have supported student-led campaign initiatives related to decolonisation
- This student/member of university staff/academic is embedded
- This student/member of university staff/academic has taken their own initiative in practicing and embedding decol matters into their work
- It may be an initiative or a project
PG Supervisor of the Year
- This award is for a supervisor who has gone above and beyond to offer outstanding support to one or more PG students.
- The award celebrates an individual who has made a lasting impact on their student’s success, exemplifying excellence in research supervision and postgraduate mentorship.
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award: Outstanding Contribution
- This award is open to GTAs only.
- This award is for outstanding teaching or support from a GTA.
- This award is for GTAs who have supported their students, delivered excellent teaching, or contributed greatly to the PG community.
Support Staff Member of the Year
- This award is for a hard-working member of staff working hard behind the scenes.
- It recognizes an outstanding support staff member who has made a significant and positive impact on the student experience.
- The award can be for exceptional dedication, kindness, or going above and beyond in their role; the staff member will have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to supporting students and enhancing their university experience.
- Staff from University Professional Services and the Students’ Union are eligible.
Biggest Sustainable Impact
This award is for the individual/student group that has had a major impact in terms of sustainability on campus. From reducing carbon to cutting waste whatever the commitment by the member we want to hear it!
The Together at Warwick Award
The Together at Warwick Award is presented in collaboration with the university’s Student Community Experience Team. This award would recognise an individual student or society who have made a meaningful contribution to:
- bringing people together
- creating connections across campus
- building community and belonging at Warwick
Academic Staff of the Year
James MacDowell
Iain Pirie
Rinkal Desai
Cornelia Juengst
Alexander Dixon
Saran Shantikumar
Dr. Angela Clarke
Erin Fillmore
Reece Goodall
Jochem Hummel
Academic Rep of the Year
Freddie Stevenson
Nikhil Kumar
Reddy Kannari
Callum Meggitt
Michael Cavaliere
Kosuke Kamada
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award: Outstanding Contribution
Sukhdev Ahluwalia
Lauren Wilkinson
Student Voice Champion / Department of the Year for Student Experience
Enci Chen
Reece Goodall
Support Staff Member of the Year
Alpha Coyle
Morna Woods
SSLC of the Year
WBS SSLC
WMG Applied Professional Engineering Programme (APEP) SSLC
English Department SSLC
Jacquie Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to Democracy
SU Questions
RAW’s Big Decision
SU Democracy Assistants
James Varney
Benjamin Cavasi
Part-Time Officer of the Year
Gursimar Kaur
Summer & Ariane
SU Forum Member of the Year
Dan Villano
Michael Cavaliere
Matt Jackson
SU forum of the Year
Societies Forum
Academic Forum
Student Wellbeing Champion
Blessing Khumbula
Susie Cleverley
Eleanor Milburn & Eszter Gyorgy
Lauren Wilkinson
Tanya Gurung
Kevin Gately Award for Student Activism
Warwick Stands with Palestine
Gavriel Hyams
Grace Fisher
Oscar Renton
Biggest Sustainable Impact
Aaron Levy
Rebecca Fulford
Raj Hacker
Ashi Singh
PG Supervisor of the Year
Dr Jagjeet Jutley-Neilson
Dr Sina Saffaran
Decolonise Advocacy Award
Warwick Stands with Palestine
Shahnaz Akhter
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SU Decolonise Advocates
Academic Staff of the Year
Rinkal Desai
Academic Rep of the Year
Michael Cavaliere
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award: Outstanding Contribution
Lauren Wilkinson
Student Voice Champion / Department of the Year for Student Experience
Reece Goodall
Support Staff Member of the Year
Morna Woods
SSLC of the Year
English Department SSLC
Jacquie Page Award for Outstanding Contribution to Democracy
James Varney
Part-Time Officer of the Year
Summer & Ariane
SU Forum Member of the Year
Dan Villano
SU Forum of the Year
Societies Forum
Student Wellbeing Champion
Blessing Khumbula
Kevin Gately Award for Student Activism
Gavriel Hyams
Biggest Sustainable Impact
Rebecca Fulford
PG Supervisor of the Year
Dr Jagjeet Jutley-Neilson
Decolonise Advocacy Award
Shahnaz Akhter