VC Awards celebrate the work of our staff whose creativity, passion and exceptional skills bring our strategy to life.
This year's award categories are listed below. You can view a detailed description of each category here.
Twelve awards will be presented including new award categories for 2021:
- Early Career
- Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange (new for 2021)
- Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
- Everyday Heroes (two awards available) (new for 2021)
- Keeping Our Community Together (new for 2021)
- International Engagement
- Public Good
- Research Impact
- Student Experience
- Teaching
- Teaching Innovation (new for 2021)
| Category | Name | Faculty/Professional Service |
|---|---|---|
| Early Career | Austin Taranta | Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences |
| Early Career | Izzy Housego | Professional Services |
| Early Career | Niamh Herman | Professional Services |
| Early Career | Shengjie Lai | Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences |
| Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange | Future Worlds Team |
Professional Services and Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences |
| Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange | Nicky Marsh | Faculty of Arts & Humanities |
| Enterprise and Knowledge Exchange | NBIC Operational and Interdisciplinary Research Fellow Team | Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences |
| Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion | Ignite Team | Professional Services |
| Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion | Eleanor Wilkinson | Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences |
| Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion | Emma Rowsell | Professional Services |
| Everyday Heroes | Exams, Awards and Graduation Team | Professional Services |
| Everyday Heroes | Jenny Russell | |
| Everyday Heroes | Student Hub Team | Professional Services |
| Everyday Heroes | Teaching Space Team | Professional Services |
| Everyday Heroes | The Early Years Centre Practitioners | Professional Services |
| Everyday Heroes | University COVID-19 Operational Response Team |
Professional Services, Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences, and Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences |
| International Engagement | BRECcIA Leadership Team |
Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences and Faculty of Social Sciences |
| International Engagement | Pathway Provider Project Team |
Professional Services, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences, and Faculty of Arts & Humanities |
| International Engagement | The World Rankings Project Team |
Professional Services, Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Faculty of Arts & Humanities and Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences |
| Keeping Our Community Together | Kelly Aubrey-Harris | Professional Services |
| Keeping Our Community Together | Raymond Skinner | Professional Services |
| Keeping Our Community Together | WPSM/PERu Team |
Professional Services, Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences, and Student |
| Public Good | COVID-19 Saliva Testing Programme |
Professional Services, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences, and Faculty of Engineering & Physical Sciences |
| Public Good | Hosam Al Kaddour | Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Public Good | Parkes Institute Team | Faculty of Arts & Humanities, and Professional Services |
| Research Impact | Max Crispin | Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences |
| Research Impact | RIS REF Core Team | Professional Services |
| Research Impact | World Class Laboratory Equipment Team | Professional Services |
| Student Experience | Curriculum and Timetabling Team | Professional Services |
| Student Experience | Enabling Services Team | Professional Services |
| Student Experience | Elliott Nikdel | Professional Services |
| Teaching | Rebecca Smith | Faculty of Arts & Humanities |
| Teaching | Reem Alasadi | Faculty of Arts & Humanities |
| Teaching | Physiotherapy Team |
Faculty of Environmental & Life Sciences and Faculty of Medicine |
| Teaching Innovation | iSolutions Education and Infrastructure Teams |
Professional Services and Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Teaching Innovation | Scott Border | Faculty of Medicine |
| Teaching Innovation | The Company at Winchester School of Art | Faculty of Arts & Humanities |
Watch some of our previous nominees explain what being nominated meant to them.
Nomination hints and tips
Read the results of previous Vice-Chancellor's Awards, as well as previous shortlisted nominees.