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Arts Awards 2025 Shortlist

Thank you to everyone who nominated a student and/or staff member for Arts Awards 2025, and to all those who joined us on Wednesday 21st May to celebrate our nominees, shortlistees and winners!

Scroll down below to see a list of all the award-categories for this year, the list of shortlistees and our 2025 winners!

For Arts Awards 2025 we received over 450 nominations across all four colleges. A shortlisting panel comprised of Arts SU Sabbatical Officers and UAL staff have put together this shortlist.

Outstanding Teaching Award (awarded per-college)

CSM:

  • Katharina Dettar
  • Winner: Cai Tuomivaara

LCF:

  • Andrew Tucker
  • Giles Pearson
  • Ronit Zilkha
  • Winner: Keren Brat
  • Stacia Bedford
  • Young-Jin Hur

LCC:

  • Keir Williams
  • Winner: Max Houghton
  • Claudia Nuzzo
  • Oliver Wrobel

CCW & CCI:

  • Adam Cole
  • Joshua Dobrik
  • Winner: Colin Priest

Student Rep of the Year Award (awarded per-college)

CSM:

  • Aditya Singh
  • Dalia Halwani
  • Winner: Madeleina Kay
  • Sarah Libman

LCF:

  • Phoebus Chen
  • Winner: Alix Damar
  • Sharon Rodrigues

LCC:

  • Adrianna Bednarz
  • Jackson Green
  • Winner: Crystal Zhang
  • Ekatarina Lesnaya

CCW & CCI:

  • Elanka Jiang
  • Winners: Pranith Yasa, Sunhui Ye & Yifan Xu (group nomination)

Outstanding Student Contribution to Community Award

  • Lee Howe-li-Rocchi 
  • Paula Dischinger 
  • Ying Huang 
  • Winner: Jolyn Jiaying Yin 
  • Valinnie Crasto 
  • Sophie Templer
  • Winner: Ramma Pande

Excellence in Student Services Award

  • Hilary Jimenez
  • Alyssa Becht
  • Winner: Betty Wong

Outstanding Contribution to Social Justice Award

  • Winner: Alejandro Martínez
  • Amita Nijhawan

Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability Award

  • Winner: George Barker
  • Alejandro Martínez

Outstanding Technical and Operational Support Award (awarded per-college)

CSM:

  • Winner: Barbara Paes
  • Paul Dewis

LCF:

  • Winner: Aiyana Phokeerdos
  • Jade Gellard
  • Frankie Lehmeier

LCC:

  • Marco Tarantino
  • Winner: Thom Kaczamarek

CCW & CCI:

  • Bridget Johnson
  • Winner: Hester Woodward
  • Winner: Eddie Niles

Outstanding Postgraduate Support Award

  • Winner: Mia Taylor
  • Duncan White
  • Sergio Fava
  • Winner: Alyssa Becht
  • Jekaterina Rogaten

Advocate for Student Voice Award

  • Winner: Alix Hanson
  • Thom Kaczmarek
  • Ronit Zilkha

Making A Difference Award

  • Jerome Ince-Mitchell
  • Leah Capaldi
  • Hester Woodward
  • Winner: Ronit Zilkha
  • Mo-Ling Chui
  • Laura Lovell Anderson
  • Winner: Jessica Chan
  • Stacia Bedford
  • Tanya Noor

Student and Staff Collaboration of the Year Award

  • Diana Ibáñez López
  • Thom Kaczmarek
  • Winners: Fotis Begklis, Eliza Salnikova & Heather Jarek (group nomination)
  • Ya-Hsin Luo & Mahalia Sobers
  • Esra Zamin Paima, Fengyi Wu, Finn Simon, Jiahuan Shen, Jiale Song, Karol Amrita Prakash, Leigh Ann Raines, Sama H M A Alhamdan, Santiago Ibarrola Mateos, Ssu-Chia Ho, Ting-Fei Hsu & Yunfan Zhang (group nomination)
  • Edselmari Deiparine, Ana Andriuskina, Julia Hadland, Julia Perrin, Alesha Bashier, Ronika Bhatia, Kyla Angelina Gani, Shannon Garnham, Siqi Huang, Toni Herda, Zaine Cowan & Zia Cater (group nomination)

Student Campaigner of the Year Award

  • Max Tickner
  • Farida Doss
  • Lumie Okado
  • Winner: Beatriz De Sousa Mendes Costa 
  • Siyi Zhou

Students' Union Special Recognition of the Year Award

  • Jonathan Carson 
  • Samantha Elliott
  • Carol Morrison 
  • Winners: Creative Shift team (Tessa Read, Lora Ghany, Sat Sehmbey, Decarla Phillip-Riley & Charline Caceres)
  • Tanyeem Hussain