Arts Awards

For the staff members who:

• Inspire students to develop their knowledge, understanding, and passion of their subject area; are imaginative and creative in their teaching, and empower students to be the same;   
• Inspire students to develop their knowledge, understanding, and passion of their subject area; are imaginative and creative in their teaching, and empower students to be the same;   
• Are engaging, informative and knowledgeable, and encourage students’ creative development;   
• Use their knowledge of cutting edge development in their field and contemporary topics to enrich the curriculum;   
• Surpass traditional ways of teaching to make their subject accessible, diverse, inclusive, and sustainable;   

For the technicians who:

• Give and enable outstanding technical support by working with students and staff; 
• Exceed expectations to equip students with expertise in and aside from curriculum; 
• Use innovative methods to find creative solutions and enhance the student experience; 
• Foster a sense of community; 

For the staff members who:

• Actively supports postgraduate students throughout their postgraduate journey; 
• Supports postgraduates with their personal and career development, as well as with research projects; 
• Has a pioneering approach to supervision; 
• Goes the extra mile to help postgraduates navigate their student experience and get involved with the student community.;
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For the staff members who:

• champions community building at UAL to develop communication and collaboration;   
• facilitates student’s involvement in building community at UAL;   
• develops new or continuing student community initiatives or projects;   
• foster belonging by actively reducing barriers for students who face isolation, ensuring community-building reaches those least connected;   
• establishes creative ways to develop student community and foster a collaborative environment.   

For the staff members who:

• Facilitate positive conversations with students’ online and/or in-person to understand and act on their feedback;  
• Work with students, Course Reps, School Reps and/or College Officers to continuously review and adapt creative, academic and/or technical practice to improve the student experience; 
• Liaise with fellow staff to investigate challenges and implement improvements to UAL systems and processes to enhance the student experience.;
• Demonstrate to students that they understand their individual as well as collective needs.; 
• Provide opportunities for students to contribute their own ideas, reflections and insights into course content for co-developing aspects of the curriculum  ;

For the staff members who:

Have truly exceeded expectations within their role and are therefore recognised outside of the other categories. This category could include exceptional individual support or a project that makes a significant impact. 

For the staff and students who:

• Have collaborated on a project, campaign or event, which could be related to teaching, wellbeing, community, or something else that has contributed to improving the student experience;  
• Used formal or informal student feedback to inform the direction and aims of their project;  

For the students who:

• Champions community building at UAL to develop communication and collaboration; 
• Develops new or continuing communities in either their course, school, college, or liberation group; 
• Fosters an inclusive and accessible environment in their community; 
• Establishes creative ways to bring their community together and foster a collaborative environment.; 

For the Course Reps or School Reps who:

• Go above and beyond to champion the views and interests of students in the school or on their course; 
• Work with staff and students collaboratively to escalate and resolve issues affecting the student experience; 
• Communicate updates and information to students to close the feedback loop; 
• Consult a variety of students in their school or on their course to ensure they can represent the whole student voice.; 

For the students or group of students who:

• Identified a key issue affecting a particular group of students and initiated a campaign to resolve it;  
• Organised and led their own campaign, mobilising their fellow students by coordinating activity that advocates for change;  
• Raised awareness of an underrepresented issue and took action to bring it to the wider attention of UAL staff and students;  
• Embeds inclusivity, accessibility, and sustainability into their campaign.; 

This award does not have any set criteria, and will be awarded to a member of staff, or team, at the discretion of the Arts SU elected officers.

For the non-teaching staff members or team who:

• Make a positive impact on students’ daily experience by providing insightful, practical and/or empathetic support, either digitally or in-person.; 
• Respond to students and/or student representatives feedback, to review and adapt university services to improve the student experience.; 
• Communicate with students by proactively signposting them to opportunities, services and systems of support that add value to their university experience.; 
• Are friendly and welcoming, making students feel comfortable to approach them. ;
• Empathetic to the challenges and pressures students face and/or recognising students’ individual needs.; 
• whilst this is not an exhaustive list, examples of staff that can be nominated for this award are student services, careers, counselling, catering, security, bar, estates and cleaning. ;