Across the world, the UCL alumni community is doing incredible things: shaping the future of industries, standing up for shared values, and giving back generously to UCL.
The UCL Alumni Awards celebrate these remarkable achievements, and the individuals behind them, highlighting the many ways our alumni make an impact through innovation, creativity and service to the UCL community.
We know there are so many inspiring stories out there, and to help us discover them, we need nominations from across UCL. You must be a UCL alum, staff member or student to submit a nomination.
If you’re a UCL alum, you can:
- Nominate yourself
- Nominate another inspiring alum
If you’re a member of staff or a student, you can:
- Nominate an alum whose work or impact you admire
There are three UCL Alumni Award categories. These include: the Discovery Award, the Global Impact Award and the Citizens Award. Find out more about each category below before submitting a nomination.
Make a nomination
If you are a UCL alum doing great things, or you know an alum who is, please submit a nomination via our form.
Complete the formNominations close 30 June 2026
UCL alumni are out in the world making a difference – and making things happen. That’s why we’ve launched the UCL Alumni Awards: to recognise and celebrate the outstanding achievements and impact our global alumni community is having. And what better time to do this than during UCL’s 200th anniversary year, as we come together to celebrate the people who make up our community.
This award recognises alumni who are making innovative contributions, translating ideas into action, and improving lives through their work.
Areas/sectors of work could include, but are not limited to: academia, research, and entrepreneurship, as well as STEM, sustainability, and the not-for-profit sector.
They are asking big questions, discovering meaningful answers, and turning ideas into impact.
Through their work, these alumni shape how people understand the world, challenging perspectives and shifting culture in meaningful ways, using their voice, ideas and creativity to make an impact on society wherever they are based across the globe.
This may include, but is not limited to: writers, journalists, artists, creatives, communicators, influencers, community organisers, or activists – whether their platform is large or small.
This award celebrates alumni who generously give back to UCL and strengthen our global community through their time, expertise or philanthropic support.
This may include alumni who support UCL as mentors, volunteers, global group leaders, scholarship supporters and legacy pledgers.
Submit a nomination for the Discovery Award
Are you a UCL alum – or do you know one – creating change in a field or industry?
Submit a nomination for the Global Impact Award
Are you a UCL alum shaping culture and driving positive change, wherever you are in the world – or do you know someone who is?
Submit a nomination for the Citizens Award
Are you a UCL alum – or do you know one – making a difference by giving back to UCL?
- All nominees must be UCL alumni.
- All alumni are eligible for nomination, regardless of when they studied at UCL.
- To make a nomination, you must be a member of the UCL community: a current member of staff, student, or alum (alumni can self-nominate or nominate another graduate for an award).
- The term alumni refers to anyone who studied at UCL for 100 days or more.
- The Alumni Awards judging panel reserves the right to make a final decision on any individual’s eligibility for the awards.
- Complete our form to submit a nomination
- You may submit more than one nomination across different award categories.
- Each nomination must be for one award category only. The judging panel reserves the right to reassign nominations to a more appropriate category where necessary.
- We anticipate a high volume of nominations and will not be able to respond to all applicants. If your submission is shortlisted – whether you have nominated yourself or someone else – we will be in touch.
- If you have been nominated by someone else and are shortlisted, we will contact you to confirm that you are happy to be considered for an award.
- An awards selection panel will consider all eligible applications and select up to three winners for each category.
- 1 May: Nominations open
- 30 June: Nominations close (at 5:00pm BST)
- August: Judging panels convene
- October – November: Winners announced
