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UCL East Engagement Awards

The UCL East Engagement Awards celebrate staff, students, partners and projects that have exemplified mutually beneficial engagement between UCL and our east London communities.

Nominations open NOW!

Nominate yourself, a colleague, a partner or a project for one of our 5 awards. All awards are focused on mutually beneficial, reciprocal engagement activity with people who live work or study in east London. The UCL part of the collaboration can be based anywhere in UCL, not just UCL East, but the community involvement must be east London based. Individual awards are for single members of UCL staff or student body. Team or project awards must include named people from UCL and the east London community.

Deadline: 11 November 2024

    Download the guidance for nominators (PDF).

    Nominate now!

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    About the UCL East Engagement Awards

    The UCL East Engagement Awards aim to celebrate the outcomes, collaboration, and engagement between UCL and our east London communities, to raise the profile of engagement within UCL, and strengthen the support for engagement at all levels of work in UCL East.

    Five awards are available in the following categories:

    1. Engagement Leader Award.
    2. Engagement Rising Star Award.
    3. Excellence in Co-creation Award.
    4. Amplifying Voices: Engaged Event or Exhibition Award.
    5. Outstanding Community Engaged Learning Award.

    What criteria do award nominated projects or people need to fulfil?

    Nominations will need to demonstrate the following about the project/team/individual:

    • They fit into the category specific criteria (see the nomination guidance document below).
    • The nominated work involved mutually beneficial collaboration between a UCL staff member or student and an external - east London based - partner or community.
    • It may be that multiple external people are involved, but the main focus should be on people based in east London.
    • The staff or students involved must have had a contract of employment or activity student status while participating the work.
    • The main external community involved should not be a for-profit company.

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      How to nominate

      We welcome nominations from anyone. You may nominate yourself or someone else. Nominators may be UCL staff or students or external partners

      Please use our online form. The deadline is 11 November 2024.

      Please only fill this out once you have read the Nomination Guidance Document, linked below. The questions from the form are outlined on the guidance document to help you draft your answer.

      Download the UCL East Engagement Awards guidance for nominators (word).
      Download the UCL East Engagement Awards guidance for nominators (PDF). 

      If you need the forms or guidance in a different format, please let us know and we will do our best to accomodate.

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      If you want to talk to the UCL East Cultural and Community Engagement team before you make a nomination, please email the team.

       

       

       

       

      Get in touch

      You can email the UCL East Engagement team at engagement-east@ucl.ac.uk