On Wednesday 30 April we held an in-person awards ceremony to announce the winners of our prestigious staff, student group, and course representative awards.
On Wednesday 30 April, students and staff congregated at Stratford’s Great Hall for an evening of celebration at the Students’ Union Awards!
The Students’ Union Awards are our way of celebrating the people who make a positive impact to our campus community every day, with categories covering staff, student groups and course representatives. We had hundreds of student nominations, outlining stories of our staff providing exceptional teaching and support, and our students building communities, creating fun on campus, and working hard to represent students’ views.
It was a joy to read all the nominations, and an amazing evening of celebration featuring dinner, drinks, performances and dancing, alongside the presentation of our awards. We were also delighted to partner with Residential Life as they presented their own set of awards for halls residents.
Thank you to everybody who took the time to submit a nomination or to join us at the awards ceremony, and a huge congratulations to all of our winners. View the winners (marked **) and shortlists below.
STAFF AWARDS
Best academic advisor
- Paul Bombo (Architecture, Computing and Engineering) **
- Lynne McCarthy (Arts and Creative Industries)
- Diliara Mingazova (Business and Law)
Best professional services staff
- Teresa Duran (Arts and Creative Industries) **
- Zadie Francis (Estates and Facilities)
- Kevin Head (Childhood and Social Care)
Most creative teacher
- Gary Doyle (Health, Sport and Bioscience)
- Sara Rasero Vaquera (Health, Sport and Bioscience) **
- Ian Wells (Childhood and Social Care)
Most effective feedback
- Simone Gordon (Health, Sport and Bioscience)
- Christopher Ok’Onkwo (Architecture, Computing and Engineering)
- Sophia Semerdjieva (Health, Sport and Bioscience) **
Most effective supervisor
- Hisham AbouGrad (Architecture, Computing and Engineering)
- Luana Parisi (Architecture, Computing and Engineering) ** PG
- Miha Constantinescu (Health, Sport and Bioscience) ** UG
Outstanding teacher of the year
- Shaheen Khatoon (Architecture, Computing and Engineering)
- Prabha Parthasarathy (Health, Sport and Bioscience) **
- Graham Robertson (Childhood and Social Care)
STUDENT GROUP AWARDS
Best student group event
- Meet & Greet (Kerala Society)
- Meet & Greet (Nigerian Society)
- Pongal (Tamil Society) **
Best committee member
- Kshitiz Dwivedy (Indian Society) **
- Abhishek Roy (Kerala Society)
- Prithvi Suthagar (Tamil Society)
Best new student group
- Computing Society **
- Karnataka Society
- Racing Society
Student group of the year
- Indian Society
- Islamic Society **
- Nigerian Society
COURSE REPRESENTATIVE AWARDS
Architecture, Computing and Engineering
- Gangadath Ajikumar (BEng Biomedical Engineering)
- Muhammad Zarar Akbar (MSc Computer Science) **
- Khadijah Zaidi (MSc Big Data Technologies)
Arts and Creative Industries
- Myles Randall-Emeka (BA Animation) **
- Alexandra Ramm (MFA Theatre Directing)
- Theo Walls (BA Music Performance and Production)
Business and Law
- Gourav Bansal (BSc Business Management)
- Tania Morgan (LLM)
- Glory Williams (LLB Law with Criminology) **
Childhood and Social Care
- Islamiat Arowosaye (BA Social Work)
- Joshua Leppard (BA Youth Work) **
- Preethi Venkateshwaran (BSc Clinical and Community Psychology)
Health, Sport and Bioscience
- Sai Dheeraj Medavarapu (MSc Public Health) **
- Neha Tripathi (MSc Biomedical Science)
- Yulime Timaure (BSc Podiatry)