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