Do you have an excellent colleague or work with an outstanding team that you would like to nominate?

The President’s Award for Excellence in Collaboration recognises an individual colleague or team who embodies our spirit of the Imperial community: one team working, planning, and delivering together towards our shared vision through effective networking, collaboration, and communication. This may include volunteering to assist with events, working on special projects, serving on committees, or programs outside of the normal work environment to deliver positive outcomes whilst demonstrating commitment to the College’s values and behaviours, Respect, Collaboration, Excellence, Integrity, and Innovation.

Nominations can be made by staff from all areas of the College. The awards are decided by a selection panel representing both support services and academic staff.

Eligibility Criteria

  • Staff in any role across the College are eligible to be nominated.
  • Nominations can be made by any Imperial staff member.
  • This award is open to individual and team
  • Self-nomination is not permitted for this award category.

The nomination must be completed by Friday 15 March 2024.

There is one individual and one team award available for this category, and the winning nominations will receive a prize of £250.

In addition, the winning nomination selected from the winners of the Leadership; Equality, Diversity and Inclusion; Collaboration and the Sustainability categories will receive the President’s Medal for Excellence in Culture and Community and a prize of £1,500.  The Medal winner/s are invited to attend a College graduation ceremony at the Royal Albert Hall to be presented with the Medal.

Nomination Information

You may nominate an individual, or a team to receive an award for Collaboration.  Please don’t feel constrained by these examples, but you might like to recognise staff and teams who:

  • Get involved in College wide activities and developments, either as an individual or a team, and often bring together different colleagues, students and/or external groups for the benefit of our community.
  • Take the time to listen and engage with others and to properly understand their needs and offer advice, encouragement, support and help to when needed.
  • Communicate regularly and effectively within, and across teams.
  • Support and promote staff wellbeing.

Entering the nomination (please additionally refer to the user guide document for the online awards system).  Please also note if you are accessing the system off-site, please make sure you are connected Zscaler and that the authenticate is turned on.

Important: The selection panel will ONLY draw on the evidence presented in the nomination form when making their decision, so please ensure a good case is presented for submission.

  • A single nomination form should be completed for individual nominations.
  • All nominations must be seconded before the Please refer to the online awards system user guide for more information.
  • Evidence should be provided, and this should be written for a non-expert audience and specific examples given where
  • There is a strict 300-word limit for each free text
  • Attachments are permitted.

Questions to complete

  1. Is this an individual or a team nomination? If this is a team nomination, please include the name of the team and the names of each team member.  You will need to select one individual name for the purposes of completing the online nomination.
  2. Please describe your relationship to the nominee (i.e., colleague, peer, line manager) and how you became aware of their contributions to Collaboration.
  3. Please describe what the nominee has done to merit the Collaboration Award and how they demonstrate the College’s values and behaviours. Please reference the Imperial Values to inspire your nomination.
  4. Please describe the key benefits they have brought to all parties involved providing clear evidence of cross team collaboration.

Please be aware of the strict word count of 300 words.