Staff Awards and Celebration Event FAQs

There are six award categories that you can nominate in, they are:

• Student experience
• Staff experience  
• Inclusion  
• Team of the Year  
• Research Culture  
• Sustainability   

More detailed information on these categories can be found on our Staff Awards and Celebration Event page. 

Please nominate through this form by 31 October 2025. 

All CSE staff and CSE-affiliated staff. 

CSE-affiliated staff are those tho work within the College but may be employed by another department within the university, e.g. College HR and Finance Partner Team Staff.

All CSE staff and CSE-affiliated staff.

You may also nominate staff who may work at our campuses or buildings but are not technically CSE staff such as cleaners, servitors, catering staff, security etc.

No, sorry! You can only nominate your colleagues.

Yes, you can nominate multiple times.

You can also nominate the same nominee in multiple categories if you like, however you can't nominate the same person more than once in the same category. 

No, all nominations will be anonymous. 

We also ask that when writing your nomination(s) that you do not refer to your nominee by name but by using something like  'X' or 'my nominee'. This is to remove any potential bias during the judging process.

We plan to share all the nominations received with those who were nominated later in the year – so they know that someone is recognising their work. This will be done without revealing who nominated them.

We plan to close nominations on 31 October 2025. 

We have launched a call for volunteer judges which closes on 31 October 2025. In November we will select our volunteer judges from around the College and they will score nominations using a secure automated scoring system. Judges will be asked to assess the nominations against the judging criteria for each category and nominations will be anonymised to avoid bias.

We have developed an online scoring system to minimise the amount of time that each judge will have to commit. However, it is hard to know for sure until we know the volume of nominations we receive. Our aim will be to keep the workload to a reasonable level for all judges and to increase the number of judges if required to manage that.

Please apply through this form by 31 October 2025. 

As well as the glory of being recognised by your peers, winners will also receive a small prize.

We awarded 16 members of staff and teams in our first Staff Awards in 2024. Congratulations to all of the winners!

We wanted to do something to recognise and celebrate our amazing staff. We also see it as a great opportunity to foster more of a community spirit and to take time out to recognise and celebrate each other.

Awards will be given to the winners at an event in the Nucleus Building on 9 December 2025. There will also be catering and an opportunity to network with colleagues. Tickets will be available later in the year.