One day left to enter the Making a Difference Awards
31 Jan 2017
There's just one more day to go before the deadline for entering the University's social responsibility awards
The Awards are open to all staff and students at the University until Wednesday, 1 February 2017 and individuals or teams can submit an entry for themselves, or be nominated by a third party. The Awards aim to recognise and celebrate the many different types of social responsibility achievements of the University’s academic and professional support staff, students and alumni.
Culminating in a major awards ceremony hosted by the President and Vice-Chancellor in May 2017, the awards will celebrate and raise awareness of how individuals and teams across the University are making a difference to the social and environmental wellbeing of our communities and wider society.
The award categories include the following:
- Outstanding benefit to society through research
- Outstanding teaching innovation in social responsibility
- Outstanding contribution to social enterprise
- Inspiring communities
- Outstanding public engagement initiative
- Outstanding contribution to equality and diversity
- Outstanding Professional Support Services and library support for social responsibility
- Outstanding contribution to environmental sustainability
- Outstanding contribution to widening participation
- Volunteer of the Year Award
Read about some of the 2016 Making a Difference Award winners and find out how winning an Awards made a difference to their work.
Further information
Further information, award criteria and the entry form can be found on the Social Responsibility website.