WATE Nomination Process

About the Nomination Process

This website provides information for anyone thinking of nominating staff, team, or self for any of the WATE Awards.

Nominations open on the 24th Nov 2025 and close on the 28th Jan 2026. They involve two stages: Stage One and Stage Two.

NOTE | The nomination form asks about the evidence base for your claim (i.e., whether such evidence exists), not for the evidence itself at this stage, however, judges may request evidence at any point.

Before you nominate

We invite all Warwick students and staff to nominate (or self-nominate) staff, PGRs Who Teach, or teams who demonstrate teaching excellence.

To see what we mean by excellence, view our criteria: WATE - Faculty Awards - Criteria.

We invite you to:

• Nominate as many people or teams as you like (as long as you only nominate each person/team once). Also, please note that previous winners are not eligible to be nominated again.
• Nominate for any award listed here: WATE - Categories & Criteria

Students - we invite you to nominate staff who (currently or in the past (e.g., in the previous academic year)) positively impacted your learning.

Colleagues – we invite you to nominate colleagues, teams, or yourself for current or recent practice(s) demonstrating excellence as per our criteria.

Stage One

How to Nominate

Submit Stage One nomination via our webform [link coming soon] before the deadline, in one of the below formats:

• Written Nomination: up to 150 words statement (approx. 50 words per criterion) OR
• Oral Nomination: up to 2 minutes audio/video recording (approx. 40 seconds per criterion)

Please ensure your nomination addresses all three criteria: WATE - Faculty Awards - Criteria.

All nominations remain anonymous, your name will not be disclosed or publicised. However,

you can choose to share your text with your nominee anonymously.

What Happens Next

Once the Stage One nominations close, the WATE team will seek your nominee's Head of Department endorsement.

With endorsements in place, the WATE team will inform the nominees of their nominations. This will be followed by staff and student judges reviewing the nominations to shortlist three nominees per faculty per award (that’s nine per award (Staff, PGR, Team)), to go through to Stage 2.

Stage Two

Stories of Excellence

Shortlisted candidates submit a Story of Excellence via a webform shared with them, signed by their HoD, before the deadline.

The Stories of Excellence can be submitted in either of the two below formats:

• Written Story: up to 1,500-word narrative
• Oral Story: up to 12 minutes audio/video recording.

Support

The WATE team will provide the submission support throughout Stage Two.

What happens next

Judges review submissions and select winners by mid-May 2026.

Runners-up receive feedback and may be featured as Spotlight Stories of Excellence on the WATE website.

Winners are celebrated at the Warwick Education Conference and invited to join the Post-Award Community.