Warwick Research Celebration

Nominate for the 2027 Warwick Research Celebration Awards

Do you know an individual or team who deserves recognition? Nominations are now open for the 2027 Warwick Research Celebration Awards. Deadline 21 October.

The awards celebrate the diverse contributions that support excellent research, including work that can be less visible through traditional research assessment. Self-nominations are not permitted.

Nominations are invited across six categories:

Research Impact

This category celebrates individuals and/or teams who have made significant contributions to achieving research impact at Warwick. For this award, research impact means an effect on, change or benefit to society, health, culture, the economy, public policy or services, the environment or quality of life, at regional, national or international levels, beyond academia.

Collaboration and Partnerships

This category celebrates individuals or teams who have developed lasting and successful academic and non-academic external collaborations or partnerships at regional, national or international leve

Research Communications, Storytelling and Publicity

This category celebrates individuals or teams who have communicated research in creative and engaging ways, helping to connect research with wider society and enhance understanding and trust in research.

Research Enabler

This category recognises individuals or teams in professional services, technical, research professional and other roles who have made a significant contribution to research at Warwick over the past year. Colleagues in these roles are a vital part of Warwick's research community, but their contributions are often less visible. Their work may involve providing specialist expertise, leading projects and programmes, developing services and infrastructure, improving systems and processes, building research capacity, strengthening research teams and partnerships, driving innovation, solving complex challenges, or creating more effective and efficient procedures.

Research Culture

This category celebrates individuals or teams who have made significant contributions to enhancing research culture at Warwick over the past five years. Research culture encompasses the behaviours, values, relationships, practices and systems that shape how research is conducted and experienced.

Excellent Supervision

This category celebrates supervisors who make an exceptional contribution to the success of postgraduate researchers at Warwick. Outstanding supervisors enable excellent research while creating inclusive and empowering environments in which postgraduate researchers can thrive. This category is open to nominations from PhD students only.

Looking back at our last celebration

The 2026 Research Celebration Awards kickstarted our Research Culture Week (23 - 26 March 2026), featuring a networking afternoon tea and opportunities to explore the stories behind the nominations, the event highlighted the importance of reward and recognition for a positive research culture.

Thank you to everyone who took time to nominate their colleagues across six categories, and to all who attended the event.