Thank you to everyone who nominated a student or staff member for Arts Awards 2026. Scroll down below to see a list of all the award-categories for this year and the list of shortlistees.
For Arts Awards 2025 we received over 460 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)
CCW & CCI
- Jamie Sutcliffe
- Miriam Elgon
- Chandler Chang
- Rebecca Fiebrink
- Teo Dannemann
CSM
- Benjamin Cain
- David Preston
- Haemin Ko
- Heather Barnett
- Jonathan Kearney
LCC
- Konstantinos Pappas
- Montana Williamson
- Shannon Larkin
- Thom Kaczmarek
LCF
- Jane Bowler
- Jekaterina Rogaten
- Mason Silveira
- Stephen Spear
Pre-Degree
- Tom Legge
- Victoria Beardsall
- Benjamin Cohen
Outstanding Technical Support Award (awarded per-college)
CCW & CCI
- Ellen Witley
- James Duck
- Yuwei Chen
CSM
- Alex Young
- Barbara Paes
- Zoe Vanezis
- Gareth Jones
- Craig
LCC
- Alexander Collinson, Amy Melling, Jesse Slater (group nomination)
- Andrew Long
- Tony Yard
LCF
- Emilia Sutherland- Netto
- Jade Gellard
- Jessica Stonebrook
- Karen Colhoun
Excellence in Postgraduate Support Award
- Anna Troisi
- Rebecca Fiebrink
- Judith van den Boom
- Shushan Karapetyan
Outstanding Staff Contribution to Student Community Award
- WenShu Zhang
- Simon Donald
- Adam Ramejkis
- Christopher Bryant
Advocate for Student Voice Award
- Shaun Clark
- Elena Arzani
- Konstantinos Pappas
- Karen Manville
Making A Difference Award
- Simon Donald
- Hardarshan Aulakh
- Yuxin Jiang
- Ronit Zilkha
Excellence in Student Services Award
- Sabine Ernst
- Tiffy Bell
- Grant Ibbs
- Emma Price
- Ronit Zilkha
Outstanding Contribution to Social Justice Award
- Gareth Foote
- Hunter Brueggemann
- Lucy Sanderson
Outstanding Contribution to Sustainability Award
- Vida Vega
- Sabinna Rachimova
Student and Staff Collaboration of the Year Award
- Safia Enefer, Alessandro de'Costanzo , Daniel Griffin, Logan Davies , Sophie Mendes, Thomas Forrester, Will Bratt, Yana Nenkovo (group nomination)
- Farid Tan Bin Hasyim Tan
- Mia Marcondes Browning
- Caitlyn Bray and Stacia Bedford (group nomination)
- Mia Daher, Ella Cheung, Qian Lou , Fangshu Ye, Sabinna Rachimova ( group nomination)
Outstanding Student Contribution to Community Award
- Vicky Tang
- Crystal Zhang
- Iommi Taberner
- Marianne Carney
- Meher Shiblee
Student Rep of the Year Award (awarded per-college)
CCW & CCI
- Haoting Yu（Alexa）
- Marina Dopico Gasca
CSM
- Dianna Dai
- Gissell Leiva Valdivia, Natalie Lee, Nhadya Lawes; (Kiki) Wenqi Li (group nomination)
- Jerome Godfrey
- Mavi Plebani
- Zoe Jozsa
LCC
- Maria Bacelar Queiroz Valenca Bacelar Paiva
- Ruth Roxanne Daly
- Saksham Duggal
- Veronika Dimitriou
LCF
- Angelina Domenge
- Clara Aurelia Angus Lane
- Elise Meek
- Leyah Owusu
- Margaret Wong
Student Campaigner of the Year Award
- Georgia-Leah Simpson
- Rida Shah
- Social Justice For Palestine (SJP)
- Sasha Wiltshire, Hiranya Toor, Evanah Bennett, Maitreyi Devidas Mandrekar Mandrekar (group nomination)
Students' Union Special Recognition Award
- Jonathan Carson
- Sharna Piercy
- Qing Brown
- Fiona Cook
- Bunmi Ekundayo
- Hilary Jiminez
- Student Staff Assembly - Kevin Biderman, Nadine Monem, Rahul Patel, Tanveer Ahmed, Annie Goh & Students for Justice in Palestine