What?
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Is your PI an excellent supervisor?
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Do they actively support you and your colleagues throughout your postgraduate journey, including your personal and career development, as well as in your research project work?
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Would you like to show your appreciation for their excellent postgraduate student supervision and support?
Why?
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Winners will be honoured with this Award, which comes with an honorarium of £1000, to be spent on a social, team building activity by the winning supervisor’s group.
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Your nomination will also help raise department-wide awareness of excellence in postgraduate supervision.
How?
Nominations open in August and close in September/October.
Nominations for 2024 are open now please click here to submit your nomination.
You will be asked to select options against the set criteria and provide a written statement to highlight how your nominated PI provides excellent postgraduate supervision and support. For more information on the criteria and assessment process, refer to this document.
Winners will be agreed upon by our Departmental Postgraduate Education Committee and Head of Department.
Who?
All postgraduate students can submit only one nomination: winning PIs will be excluded from future competitions for 4 years.
Award Winners
2020 - Professor Ian Paterson
2021 - Professor Dominic Wright
2022 - Professor Angelos Michaelides
Pictured Above: Angelos and his research group celebrated the award with a trip to London to see Wicked.
2023 - Professor David Spring
Pictured: David and his group at the Outstanding Supervisor Award 2023 social event (22/05/2024).
Pictured Above: David used the prize money on an escape room event with his research group.
2024 - To Be Announced January 2025