Warwick Technician Commitment Award for Outstanding Achievement

We are pleased to provide ongoing support to the Warwick Technician Commitment Award for Outstanding Achievement (which was launched in May 2023).This celebrates the fantastic work our technical staff do across research, teaching and within our infrastructure, without which Warwick would not operate.

We encourage any member of staff or student to nominate a technical member of staff for achievements big or small, or to celebrate work that is unsung but still immensely important.

Nominations can be made at any time. Twice a year (around May and November) we will select awardees from the nominations received. The successful nominees and those considered highly commended will receive a certificate and vouchers to celebrate their achievements and these will be awarded at the summer and winter Technician Commitment events.

Alongside this, we will welcome nominations for team awards. The expectation is that a team will have worked on a common goal to achieve success. The team will receive our Team Trophy, and will be rewarded with a congratulatory team lunch at the conference centres on campus.

We have provided eligibility, guidance and further information below the nomination form, but if you have any questions, please contact technicians@warwick.ac.uk.

To Nominate:

Use the form below to nominate. Individual (and team) nomination cut-off dates are listed, with any nominations missing a cut-off automatically carried into the next period for assessment.

• 14th November 2025

Eligibility, Guidance and Further Information

Eligibility:

• Individual nominees must be technical staff who are on our Technical Staff Job Family. Nominated teams must be predominantly made up of such staff. Contact technicians@Warwick.ac.uk if clarification is required.

• No self-nominations are allowed. Line managers are able to nominate their own teams.

• The nominee must be a member of staff at the time of award presentation.

• Nomination can be for a single body of work or multiple (potentially smaller) bodies of work.

• ·A nominee can only receive an individual award once in a 12-month period, with further nominations being recognised via letter from the Technician Commitment Steering Committee Chair.

• A team can only receive the team award a maximum of once in a 12-month period, with further nominations being recognised via a letter from the Technician Commitment Steering Committee Chair.

Guidance:

• The awards will be advertised via the TechNet webpages (https://warwick.ac.uk/research/technicians/) and via individual departments through their usual forms of communication.

• Only evidence included in the nomination (see below for advice on writing a nomination, will be taken into consideration, and the guidelines given on the submission form must be adhered to for the nomination to be valid.

• The decision of the judging panel is final.

• Individual and Team awards will run twice a year.

• Awards cannot be exchanged for any alternative.

Further information and guidance on writing a nomination

• Awards will be selected by a panel that includes technical, academic and professional services staff drawn from a range of departments. Panel membership will be diverse (gender, career stage) and the technical representation will be regularly rotated to provide a variety of outlooks.

• Panellists will not input into discussions regarding nominees from their own department.
• We will have coverage of the nominees via social media and on the TechNet website, to enhance the recognition and visibility of our technical staff, in line with our Technician Commitment Action Plan.

Nominations must be no more than 250 words and should include a brief outline of the work undertaken with bullet points including specific detail and evidence of why the nomination is being made. To ensure a fair review process, the review panel will use only the information and evidence included in the nomination in their decision making. Note, the awards are expected to be highly competitive and thus stating an individual / team is doing a really good job will likely not result in success. Nominations made without specific evidence of outstanding achievement being provided will likely score lower than those containing detail of achievements and the impact by the panel.

Below are some examples (not an exhaustive list) of what outstanding achievement might look like: Where processing time or cost savings have been made.

• Where work on development or introduction of new working practices have been proposed and implemented without prompting
• Where someone has gone over and above their daily tasks to make a difference (but how and why must be included in the evidence)
• Demonstrating success in solving an issue (outside of their normal role) that has helped a department or research group
• Demonstration of significant contribution in an area outside of normal role
• Demonstration of outstanding and proactive approach to work environment
• Attracting or contributing to funding applications where this is outside of normal role