Our University Awards winners showcase amazing staff effort right across the University: from inspirational leadership and unsung heroes to service excellence and community contribution. You now have the opportunity to spend the day, or half a day, with a winner; learn from another area of the University and understand how things work in a department different from yours.

Spending time with colleagues outside of your department can provide a unique opportunity to understand more about others’ work.

Now is your chance!

The programme is open to all staff - academic, professional services and commercial - from grades 1a to 9 and we're looking for participants from right across the University to get involved.

Apply online by noon on Tuesday 1 August 2017 

If you'd like to take part, please discuss with your line manager or Head of Department in the first instance. If they are happy for you to be involved at this time, please complete the brief form here. All applicants will then be contacted in early August to advise if they've been put forward to take part at this time (as it may not be possible for all submissions to be taken forward at this time).

You can look at previous work shadowing experiences online, to give you an idea of what to expect.

Which winners are available?

The following winners have indicated that they have availability before the end of September:

Robert Spooner, Senior Teaching Fellow in School of Life Sciences Winner of the Student Experience Award Read Robert's full profile and post awards interview
Collaborative Wellbeing Activities Team Winners of the Student Experience Team Award Gemma Marakas, Community Engagement Manager (Postgraduates) in the Library Read the post award interview from Gemma Marakas and Hannah Hickman from the Library, on behalf of the Collaborative Wellbeing Activities Team
Biomedical Research Unit in Reproductive Health Winners of the Research Team Award Sascha Ott, Associate Professor in Bioinformatics, Computer Science Omar Khan, Software Engineer in Institute of Digital Healthcare, WMG Read the post award interview from Sascha and Omar, on behalf of the Biomedical Research Unit in Reproductive Health View Sascha's homepage
Helen Spencer-Oatey Director/Professor in Applied Linguistics Winner of the Global Contribution Award Read Helen's full profile and post award interview
Warwick in Africa Winners of the Global Contribution Team Award Ruth Dorrell, Programme Manager (Warwick in Africa), Maths Sarah Walker, Development Executive, External Affairs
Rachel Edwards Associate Professor (Reader) in Physics Winner of the Public Engagement Award Read Rachel's full profile and post awards interview Please note - you will need to be available on Tuesday 8 August, 2pm-5.30pm to take part in this work-shadow.
Creative Learning Team Winners of the Public Engagement Team Award Kate Sayer, Head of Creative Learning, Warwick Arts Centre
Charlotte Ridley, External Affairs Winner of the Inspirational Leadership Award

Benefits for both

• Helps to break down barriers and myths about how others work
• Provides a ‘hands on’ opportunity to observe good practice elsewhere
• Encourages both staff members to understand that other people and departments work in different ways and that there is lots to learn from other areas

Benefit for Warwick

• Improves communication within the organisation
• Brings together people who might not normally meet and provides networking opportunities
• Broadens knowledge and understanding of others’ roles, teams and departments, and potentially broader HE issues
• Increases understanding of the wider institutional goals and objectives