BEAMS Professional Services Awards - Winners & Nominees!

• Staff could be nominated for an award in any of the following six categories:
• Giving our students the best support, facilities and opportunities
• Valuing our staff and delivering on equality and diversity
• Financing our ambitions
• Delivering excellent systems and processes in support of UCL’s vision
• Maintaining a sustainable estate to meet our aspirations
• Communicating and engaging effectively with the world

Of these six awards, three were won this year by MAPS staff - these were:

Giving our students the best support, facilities and opportunities:
Winner: Philippa Elwell, Senior Postgraduate Teaching and Learning Administrator, Department of Space and Climate Physics

“Philippa… always carefully overseas how each student is doing and interacting with their supervisor. She starts her action well before someone asks or even before the other people notice, which helps identify any sign of difficult situations some students are facing, and resolving them before it gets worse. She always takes care of every students very much equally and in a very supportive way. The research students also trust her and often they speak to Philippa their personal issues. She keeps such confidential information very carefully always, and takes an appropriate action to mitigate them.”

Philippa received the award for:

• Going beyond the scope of her role when supporting students. She works on a remote campus and made sure all students had a safe place to be when Ariel House closed due to Covid-19. She provides pastoral care as well as departmental support.
• Proactively creating and improving good practice and process documentation to a highly professional level.
• Engaging with students for feedback on processes and redesigning them from a student experience perspective.

Financing our ambitions:

Winner: Soheni Francis, Deputy Departmental Manger, Department of Mathematics

“This past year has required a considerable shift in working processes and an injection of creative thinking, to provide the best support for our students and staff. Soheni has proved one of the best examples of how to adapt and maintain a high-level professionalism and work ethic during this period. She is also renown for her ability to find items required by the department for the best price available. The pandemic caused a shortage of equipment that was urgently required for our staff to work from home. She played a big part in sourcing equipment, ensuring it was value for money and having it quickly shipped to staff so that they could work at home and minimise delays. Soheni’s involvement in this process was crucial to our success at this difficult time.”

Soheni received this award for:

• Paying attention to detail for financial transactions to ensure all grant regulations are met and records are maintained to a level required for auditing no matter how small or complex the grant is.
• Ensuring clarity on financial matters across the department that builds a culture of trust and helps colleagues to understand complex financial processes and information.
• A consistent commitment for getting value for the department across procurement and purchasing, as well as detailed budget tracking that underpins budget decision making.
• Acting as a My Finance superuser and sharing experience and good practice beyond her department.

Maintaining a sustainable estate to meet our aspirations

Winner: Matthew Lougher, Safety & Facilities Manager, London Centre for Nanotechnology

(Also won in 2017 & 2018, showing a sustained high level of performance.)

“While playing such a significant role in our pandemic response, Matt has continued to find time for other activities serving the LCN community (and UCL more widely). In particular he serves on UCL's central Safety Committee, and also as the LCN's Green Champion, in which role he is leading our participation in the LEAF sustainable laboratories programme and has implemented significant changes to the way our laboratory waste is handled. He acts as the main point of contact between the LCN and UCL Estates, juggling an exceptionally wide range of maintenance and project activities in our complex building and regularly coping with emergencies such breakdowns in the LCN's process cooling circuits. He has shown an exceptionally cool head in dealing with these stressful events.”

Matthew received this award for:

• Managing the safe close down and reopening of the LCN laboratories in a pro-active way that gave surety of safety and was praised as model planning by safety services.
• Being able to influence the building users remotely through having already established himself as an authority to be respected by balancing the enforcing of rigorous safety measures without being obstructive.
• The care he takes in all his interactions with individuals.

In addition, four members of MAPS staff were runners up in the above categories. These were:

Giving our Students the best support, facilities and opportunities - Runner up: Helena Wong (Chemistry)

Delivering excellent systems and processes in support of UCL’s vision - Runner Up: Andrew Gormanly (Physics and Astronomy)

Communicating and engaging effectively with the world - Runner Up: Sarah Jeal (IRDR)

Maintaining a sustainable estate to meet our aspirations - Runner Up: Lee Bebbington (Physics and Astronomy)

The full list of nominees for each category can be read below.

Giving our students the best support, facilities and opportunities

Thomas Abbs Bartlett School of Architecture

Satinder Bhamra Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management

Ian Calder School of Management

Hallie Cook Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Sharon Cooney The Bartlett Development Planning Unit

Jo Donkin Institute for Materials Discovery

Harry Donnelly Mathematics

Philippa Elwell Space and Climate Physics

Steve Etienne London Centre for Nanotechnology

Sienna Griffin-Shaw Bartlett School of Architecture

Beth Hills Chemical Engineering

Sam Hopkins Mathematics

Sarah Jeal Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction

Philip Jeavons Mechanical Engineering

Helen Jones BEAMS

Mike Kelly Chemistry

Peter Kelly Mechanical Engineering

Katy Le Lion Chemical Engineering

Karen Leport Statistical Science

Zak Liddell MAPS Faculty Office

Selina Lovell Physics and Astronomy

Robin Mather Bartlett School of Architecture

Gerald McBrearty Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Lisa Medici Physics and Astronomy

Sarah Murphy Physics and Astronomy

Mae Oroszlany Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources

Barry Reid Chemical Engineering

Randalle Roberts Science and Technology Studies

Rachel Smith Mechanical Engineering

Kerry-Anne Tarlton Engineering Science Faculty Office

Sukh Thiara Mathematics

Richard Thorogate London Centre for Nanotechnology

Michelle Tinsley School of Management

Nicola Townsend Mathematics

Carol Trent The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

Andy Wilkinson Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management

Helena Wong Chemistry

Valuing our staff and delivering on equality and diversity

Kate Fraser Mathematics

Yukiko Fujimoto Institute for Global Prosperity

Emma Grant London Centre for Nanotechnology

Katy Le Lion Chemical Engineering

Nkenji Okpara The Bartlett Development Planning Unit

Nicola Phillips Chemistry

Maija Powell Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources

Hab Salik Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Rosanna Seels Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources

Lana Shiel Mathematics

Rebecca Sibley MAPS Faculty Office

Michelle Tinsley School of Management

Financing our ambitions

Celine Ahmed Earth Sciences

Paul Bennett Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Graca Carvalho Computer Science

Soheni Francis Mathematics

Emma Grant London Centre for Nanotechnology

Nadia Jackson Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction

Jo McHugh London Centre for Nanotechnology

Laura Pullen Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Poilcy

Sarah Ritchie Space and Climate Physics

Philip Ross Mechanical Engineering

Philippa Shallard Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources

Sean Tonkin Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

Susan Walsh Science and Technology Studies

Delivering excellent systems and processes in support of UCL’s vision

David Alabaster      Chemical Engineering

Dawn Bailey      Computer Science

Ruksana Begum      Clinical Operational Research Unit

Ibrahim Bulime      Mathematics

Bonita Carboo      Physics & Astronomy

Graca Carvalho      Computer Science

Olivier Delacroix      Computer Science

Vijay Devineni      IT for The Bartlett, ISD

Georgios Drakontaeidis     Bartlett School of Architecture

Robert Ebsworth      Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Poilcy

Steve Etienne      London Centre for Nanotechnology

Russell Evans       Statistical Science

Donat Fatet      Bartlett School of Architecture

Taslima Ferdous      Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management

Andrew Gormanly      Physics and Astronomy

Richard Hoyle      Mathematics

Helen Jones      BEAMS

Michael Kaminski      MAPS Faculty Office

Rohit Khanna      London Centre for Nanotechnology

Rhiannon Lloyd      Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Matt Lougher      London Centre for Nanotechnology

Yael Moscou      Chemistry

Helen Pascoe      Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management

Peter Petrou      Engineering Science Faculty Office

Jenny Post      Bartlett School of Planning

Wendy Richardson     Computer Science

Maria Vaughan      Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management

Valeria Vercesi      Office of the Vice-Provost (Research)

Verity Whiter      Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources

Maintaining a sustainable estate to meet our aspirations

Lee Bebbington      Physics & Astronomy

Emily Jennings      Bartlett School of Environment, Energy & Resources

Ben Lee      Bartlett School of Architecture

Matt Lougher       London Centre for Nanotechnology

Karen Stoneham      Physics and Astronomy

Communicating and engaging effectively with the world

Mark Bernardes      Chemical Engineering

Georgina Cade      Institute of Healthcare Engineering

Penny Carmichael      Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy

Mark Fuller      UCL Observatory

Rita Goncalves De Pinho      Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy

Florence Greatrix      Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy

David Heymann       The Bartlett Development Planning Unit

Sarah Jeal      Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction

Sadiq Kadifachi      Physics and Astronomy

Erin Manning      London Centre for Nanotechnology

Zoe Ohman      Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering

Karen Stoneham      Physics and Astronomy

Dan Taylor      Institute of Healthcare Engineering