About the Stage Two nominee statement

Each nomination for Faculty, Postgraduate, Collaborative, Community & Culture award will be evaluated against the relevant criteria. Shortlisted nominees will then be invited to submit a statement of practice which will be evaluated by the Stage Two judging panel. This part of the process will be looking for evidence that practice is:

• reflective;
• evidence-informed;
• has ongoing impact.

All three elements are fundamental to teaching excellence and the development of expert practitioners. They are introduced at stage two because although crucial components of excellence, they are not always visible from the ‘outside’ by those who experience excellent teaching.

Format

The statement of practice can be submitted as a written document, or recorded using audio or video.

Recordings should be approximately 15 minutes long, and you should include a transcript (for accessibility purposes).

The statement must be signed by the Head of Department or equivalent prior to submission.

We would also like you to upload a short bio (50 words), a brief synopsis of your statement (100 words) and a photograph that we can use to publicise your success.

Reflective

Evidence-informed

Ongoing impact

Writing your statement

Please use the template below to prepare you submission. Your statement should be no longer than 2000 words, including citations. You can include diagrams and figures but text appearing in the diagram will contribute to the final word count. Content accessed via hyperlinks within your document will not be taken into consideration in the review process, and you should not therefore rely upon evidence that you link to as judges will not follow these.

You should include a list of references that you have drawn upon in the statement. You should not include any publications/presentations that is not directly linked to the material in your claim. References are not included in the word count. References are not 'scored' and are included to enable reviewers to identify sources.

Nominee Statement Documents

Faculty Award - Nominee Statement

Postgraduates who teach Award - Nominee Statement

Collaborative Award - Nominee Statement

Community and Culture Award - Nominee Statement

Writing workshops

The WATE team will be running two workshops to support nominees to draft their statement, for more information on the writing workshops and to book please click this link.

WATE 2025 | Winners Form

We'd love to celebrate the WATE winners by publishing their bios, photos, and a summary of your Statement. If you win, are you happy for us to share those on the WATE winners’ website (see examples here (WATE 24 Arts winnersLink opens in a new window)

• 50 word biography
• 100 word synopsis of your statement
• recent photograph (min 300 dpi, 270 x 470 pixels, 1MB max)

WATE Winners Form.docx