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UCL’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team are delighted to announce the shortlist for UCL’s Inclusion Awards 2026!
This year, we received around 100 nominations, recognising the inspiring work of UCL staff and students who are driving forward equality, diversity, and inclusion across the institution.
With six award categories, the Inclusion Awards 2026 celebrate a wide range of impactful contributions from colleagues and students alike. Our dedicated judging panels carefully reviewed each nomination and selected an exceptional shortlist in each category.
This year also marks the introduction of a new category, the ‘Community Impact Award’, recognising individuals or teams whose current EDI beaconing work strengthens UCL’s long-term ambitions and builds on 200 years of institutional growth towards a more inclusive future. A shortlist for this award has been selected by one of the judging panels, with the winner to be chosen by members of UCL’s EDI Community of Practice.
The full list of nominees for each award can be found here.
The winners will be revealed at our highly anticipated awards ceremony on 8 July 2026. We look forward to celebrating these remarkable achievements and the individuals and teams making a meaningful difference across UCL.
Here are the exceptional staff and students who have been shortlisted:
Provost’s award for embedding equality, diversity & inclusion (staff only)
- Adam Cresswell, RIGE
- Jonathan Roiser, Brain Sciences
- Laura Pallett, Medical Sciences
- Wilton Lodge, Institute of Education
Sarah Guise Award for Catalyst for Change (staff and students)
Students
- Galila Khougali, The Bartlett
- Georgina Wilson-Cousins, The Bartlett
Staff
- Urban Listening Room, UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
- Mazal Oaknin, Arts and Humanities
- Natasha Bradley, Faculty of Brain Sciences
- Laila Kadiwal, Institute of Education
- Carney Battenti, Professional Services
Sir Stephen Wall Award: Inspiring Role Model (staff and students)
Students
- Rebecca Ogbonna, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
- Danilo Paganelli, Arts and Humanities
- Clement Renton, Arts and Humanities
Staff
- Elaine Pimentel, Engineering Sciences
- Henal Ganatra, Professional Services
- Simon Liu, Institute of Education
Inclusive Culture Award (UCL departments, divisions or teams only)
- GOS ICH EDI Committee, Population Health
- RIGE EDI Committee, Research, Innovation and Global Engagement
- The Strategic Planning team, OVPS
Community Impact Award (staff only)
- Bartlett Promise Scholarship Team (The Built Environment)
- Matthew Grech Sollars (Engineering Sciences)
- Safia Malik (Brain Sciences)
- Simon Lock and Emma Jones (MAPS)
Intersectional Impact Award (staff only)
We received a limited number of nominations for this category and, as the panel was only able to select a winner rather than create a shortlist, we’ll be keeping the result under wraps for now. The winner will be revealed at the awards ceremony in July.
Panel members
Three separate panels convened to agree the shortlists. The panels were made up of the following representatives across UCL:
- Carol Rivas, EDI CoP Lead
- Michael Sulu, Co-Chair of UCL’s Race Equality Steering Group
- Elise Crayton, Co-Chair of UCL’s Disability Equality Steering Group
- Mazal Oaknin, Co-Chair of UCL’s Gender Equality Steering Group
- Simon Lock, Co-Chair of UCL’s LGBTQ+ Steering Group
- Jon Clayden, Vice Dean of EDI, Population Health Sciences
- Safia Chaudhry, Chair of UCL’s Muslim Staff Network
- Simon To, Students Union
The panels were chaired by Kae Ohene-Yeboah, Head of EDI (Programmes & Charters)