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Our new Sussex Awards programme recognises the brilliant work of our professional services and academic staff and our postgraduate researchers, along with groups of staff and students, across a range of award categories. We‘ve brought together the Education, Research Culture and Research Impact Awards and added new categories, giving us more opportunities to celebrate the breadth of work taking place across our Faculties and Divisions. 

There are 15 broad categories covering education and students, global and civic engagement, research and innovation, and other areas, providing opportunities to nominate colleagues across the many various roles in our community. The awards have been combined and extended to make them more inclusive for all Sussex staff, including professional services in Schools and Divisions, responding to feedback on previous awards programmes. 

You can nominate individuals or groups of staff in almost every category, and postgraduate researchers are eligible in many categories too. Students can nominate staff in several categories, and we are promoting the awards widely to our student community. 

Judging panels will review all the nominations, and shortlisted nominees will be invited to an awards ceremony at the Attenborough Centre on Tuesday 6 May 2025, where the winners will be revealed. All nominees will be informed of their nomination, but not who nominated them. 

The categories are: 

Education and student life

• Inclusive Education
• Education for Employability and World Readiness
• Community Impact, Scholarship and Social Responsibility
• Collaborative Learning and Innovation

Research and innovation

• Research and Innovation Excellence
• Open Research
• Research and Innovation Culture
• Research and Innovation Impact

Education and research

• Postgraduate Researcher Support

Global and civic engagement

• Global Engagement
• Civic Engagement

Sussex people

• Inclusive Sussex
• Contribution to Campus Life

Transforming Sussex

• Environmental Sustainability
• Institutional Improvement and Transformation

You can see the full category definitions on the awards page.

Nominations won’t take long and you can nominate multiple times for different people, but please don’t enter the same nomination in different categories – choose the most relevant.  

Nominate now - nominations close at midnight on Sunday 16 March 2025.

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