We have put together 12 categories which make us Proud to be Beds. Use these definitions to best place your nominations in the Vice Chancellor's Awards.
This award is given to the individual or team who embodies the spirit of ‘Proud to Be Beds’ through their outstanding contribution to our University community.
The winner of the Vice Chancellor's Beds Champion will be selected from the winners of the other award categories.
This award is for an individual or team who demonstrates that inspirational teaching can transform a course and inspire students. This may be through innovative and inclusive curriculum, pedagogy or assessment, creating learning community, or challenging students to develop new skills.
An individual or team whose efforts have impacted positively on the student experience – personal or academic – by helping students to be successful and able to realise their potential. This may include the successful delivery of projects or initiatives which make a positive student experience possible.
This award celebrates the commitment and achievements of new members of staff to the university. It is open to employees who have completed their probationary period and have up to two years’ service. Nominees will have exceeded the expectations of their position and demonstrated their commitment to the mission of the university. This person will have made a huge impact in their team through introducing new initiatives that may have improved efficiency or reduced costs as well as innovative and creative approaches to the way we do things.
This award recognises and celebrates an individual or team who has gone above and beyond to exemplify our values. In particular the values of inclusion, excellence, collaboration and sustainability.
This award recognises an individual who acknowledges contribution from all, providing positive reward and reinforcement. They understand individuals' motivations and provide support in a fair and consistent manner.
This individual builds trust and rapport by showing genuine interest in others. They understand and acknowledge feelings, concerns and ideas. They encourage constructive questioning and promote challenging discussion and steer towards an effective solution. They encourage, recognise and celebrate high performance and desired behaviours, developing staff to be the best they can be.
This award recognises an individual or team who focus on initiatives that equips students with the skills they need for the job market. This could be through providing networking opportunities to creating new opportunities for work-based learning or creatively integrating employability into the curriculum.
This award recognises a team or individual who has delivered a project which resulted in reciprocal knowledge exchange that had a transformative effect on the University and a non-academic partner by addressing new and emerging challenges. This need not involve income but can include areas such as consultancy, graduate placement, funded/ co-funded Masters or PhD, KTP or a student project, and it may involve public or private sector collaboration.
This award is for an individual or team who has made the most imaginative connections with our communities, locally, nationally and internationally, and made positive change which has a lasting impact. This could be, for example, through engaged research, partnerships with community groups or work with schools and colleges.
This award recognises an individual or a team whose research has demonstrated, or has the potential to have, far reaching impact on academic or non-academic communities. This might include ground breaking academic research that has shaped a field of enquiry or research influencing public policy or projects that are of measurable benefit to society. Judging will take account of the career stage of those submitting entries.
This award recognises a team or individual whose efforts, above and beyond their normal duties, have made a significant contribution to our international impact. This could include, but is not restricted to, the fields of research, education, knowledge exchange or the student experience.
This award is for an individual or team who has made the University more sustainable, or has inspired others to make change. The project or initiative will have had a significant impact on our energy usage, reduced our waste or lessened our environmental footprint.