It’s the most exciting time in the SU calendar: award season.

Know a lecturer that goes above and beyond on Zoom? Has a creative campaign caught your eye? Is there a society committee that have made your Uni experience amazing? Got a radio show you tune into every week?

Let’s celebrate the people who’ve made Manny marvellous. From legendary lecturers, and creative campaigners to dedicated DJ’s and society stars, make someone’s year by letting them know they’ve made yours!

We want to celebrate the students and staff who have gone above and beyond in all aspects of University life and made a difference in the wider community.

Know someone who deserves an award? Nominate them now!

Nominations open 23 April at 10am and close 13 May at 8pm.
We’ll be announcing our nominees 1 – 4 June.
We’ll be hosting our awards ceremonies 14 – 17 June.

Nomination & Award Process

Interested in how the awarding process works?

Awards and their criteria are made available to all students and staff at the University of Manchester on the manchesterstudentsunion.com website.

Each awards panel is led by a member of Students’ Union staff as well as a member of the Student Executive Officer team. Each panel is then made up of other relevant staff from across the Students’ Union and the University.

All students are notified when nominations open through the Students’ Union website as well as through direct emails and social media channels.

Any student can retract their nomination at any time by contacting the Students’ Union directly via info.su@manchester.ac.uk.

Once nominations are closed, awards panel members meet and spend an allocated time deciding on what criteria nominations meet. Decisions regarding who should be awarded what are made via voting. If there is a tie in votes, the elected Student Executive Officer has the casting vote.

A full list of nominees and a shortlist are announced on the manchesterstudentsunion.com website and across the Students’ Union social media channels.

Awards are presented at individual events (i.e. Education, Halls & Societies, Student Media, Campaigning, Volunteering & Fundraising).

How is bias kept to a minimum in the awarding process?

Panel members must follow these rules to reduce any chance of bias:

The Panel’s decisions on awards are based solely on the evidence provided on the submitted nomination forms. Panel members are not allowed to contribute additional information to a nomination even if they know of achievements or facts extra to that submitted that would help a student group or an individual fulfil an award’s criteria.

It is the responsibility of those submitting nominations to include all relevant evidence on each nomination.  

We may have panel members associated with nominees either directly or in-directly. Panel members associations with nominees will be made noted at the beginning of each award category discussion.  

For any award, panel members are not allowed to draw information from different nominations for different awards for the same nominee. They must consider nominations on an award by award basis and not allow nominations for other awards affect their vote.