Rising Star

This award celebrates staff early in their public or community engagement journey who have started running/ supporting activities within the last 3 years. We want to hear about emerging talent, the people to watch, the public or community engagement stars of the future. There is one award available, worth £1000.

Developing Others

This award celebrates individuals who are making a difference to the culture of Public or community engagement at Warwick behind the scenes. This could be administrators or support staff who enable public or community engagement events to happen, people who are teaching public or community engagement to their students, those running training or development programmes for others in their department, people who give up their time to mentor others in public or community engagement, or anyone else who’s supporting other members of the Warwick community to do public or community engagement activities. There is one award available, worth £1000.

Making a Difference

This award celebrates individuals who are having a significant benefit on their chosen audience/ partners due to their public or community engagement work. There is one award available, worth £1000.

Outstanding Public Engagement

Undergraduate Award

This award celebrates the undergraduate students who have made the biggest contribution to public or community engagement at Warwick in the last year. There are two awards of £500 presented for this category.

Postgraduate Award

This award celebrates the postgraduate student who has made the biggest contribution to public or community engagement at Warwick in the last year. There are two awards of £500 presented for this category.

Available to current PGT, PGR and PhD students and those who have recently left applying related to activities carried out in their final previous year of study.

Staff Team Award

This award celebrates teams of staff, or teams of staff and students, who have worked together to deliver public or community engagement activities over the last year. We also welcome collaborative teams which also include members not based at Warwick. We want to celebrate the work you’ve done and the benefit this has had. A team is defined as between two and fifteen people and we would expect the majority of team members to be working/ studying at Warwick.

For teams of 2-15 collaborators from across Professional Services and Academic staff and students of the University.

Applicants involved in a Team award can also apply for an Individual award, but not for the same project.

One team award is available, worth £4000.

Student Team Award

This award celebrates teams of students who have worked together to deliver public or community engagement activities over the last year. We particularly encourage Student Societies, or groups of students who have worked together on public or community engagement activities for modules or the URSS to apply. There is one award of £2,000 award presented for this category.