Inclusive Impact Awards 2023
Nominations are now open for the Inclusive Impact Awards 2023.
These awards showcase and celebrate individuals, teams and initiatives that are already advancing purposeful change at York around EDI - from research projects and inclusive education practices to collaborations, partnerships and community-building initiatives.
The inaugural Inclusive Impact Awards took place on 2 November 2022 and marked the launch of the University's EDI Exchange. Find out more about last year’s Inclusive Impact Awards, including the nominees, highly commended nominations and winning entries.
Award categories
The 2023 Inclusive Impact Awards has eight categories:
This award recognises a successful project or initiative that demonstrates a new, or innovative approach to promoting and advancing inclusivity within an area of the University of York. This could be an activity within a particular Academic Department or Professional Service, across a Faculty or Directorate or within a smaller team, network or collective. We are particularly keen to receive nominations in this category for initiatives that are taking an intersectional approach to inclusivity.
This award recognises a group of staff and/or students that has played a strategic, bold and proactive role in advancing inclusivity at the University of York and a positive impact in terms of building a more inclusive university community. This could be a recognised staff or student network, a formal society or a grassroots collective.
This award recognises an individual, a group or a particular activity or initiative that has advanced social inclusion for an identified, marginalised or under-represented group. This could be an activity that has had a positive impact on the staff and student community at the University of York, but it could also be an activity that has improved social inclusion more broadly for marginalised or under-represented groups across the city or beyond.
This award recognises an individual, a group, an initiative or a project that is promoting and advancing our disability inclusion agenda at the University of York. This could be someone who has been a champion for disability inclusion, a group or project that has had a positive impact on university practice or policy, an initiative that has addressed an identified challenge for this community, an event that has raised awareness or brought people together - anything that has lead to positive change, making the University of York a more inclusive place to work and study for our disabled staff and students.
This award recognises an individual, a group, an initiative or a project that is promoting and advancing our LGBTQ+ inclusion agenda at the University of York. This could be someone who has been a champion for LGBTQ+ inclusion, a group or project that has had a positive impact on university practice or policy, an initiative that has addressed an identified challenge for this community, an event that has raised awareness or brought people together - anything that has lead to positive change, making the University of York a more inclusive place to work and study for our LGBTQ+ staff and students.
This award recognises an individual, a group, an initiative or a project that is promoting and advancing our race inclusion agenda at the University of York. This could be someone who has been a champion for race inclusion, a group or project that has had a positive impact on university practice or policy, an initiative that has addressed an identified challenge in this space, an event that has raised awareness or brought people together - anything that has lead to positive change, making the University of York a more inclusive place to work and study for our staff and students from minority ethnic groups.
This award recognises an individual, a group, an initiative or a project that is promoting and advancing our gender inclusion agenda at the University of York. This could be someone who has been a champion for gender inclusion, a group or project that has had a positive impact on university practice or policy, an initiative that has addressed an identified challenge in this space, an event that has raised awareness or brought people together - anything that has lead to positive change, making the University of York a more inclusive place to work and study for all genders.
This award recognises an individual member of our University community who has been a catalyst for change and has led bold, innovative, and impactful activity that has and is advancing York’s inclusivity agenda. This award will go to someone who has gone above and beyond and shown continued outstanding commitment to building a more inclusive University community for our staff and students.
Judging panel
The Inclusive Impact Awards will be considered and judged by a panel of staff and students, drawn from the diversity of our University community. The confirmed list of judges will appear here later in September 2023.
Key Dates
- Nominations open: Monday 11 September 2023
- Deadline for nominations: 5pm Wednesday 25 October 2023
- Shortlisting: Thursday 26 October to Wednesday 1 November 2023
- Shortlisted nominees notified and final invites confirmed: Thursday 2 November 2023
- Awards presentation event: evening of Tuesday 21 November 2023
Awards event
The winners will be announced at our Inclusive Impact Awards event which will take place at the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall in York City Centre on the evening of Tuesday 21 November 2023 (exact times TBC).
- Any current member of staff or student at the University of York can submit a nomination for the Inclusive Impact Awards.
- Any current member of staff, student, team, Department, Faculty, group or network can be nominated.
- Members of staff who have a formal EDI responsibility as part or all of their role can be nominated, however, nominations must be able to demonstrate the impact this individual has had beyond the standard requirements of their role.
- We will not be accepting self-nominations this year.
- We are particularly keen to receive nominations for collaborative or interdisciplinary initiatives, or individuals who have worked collaboratively/in partnership with others.
- We are also particularly keen to receive nominations for initiatives that have been co-created by staff and students.
- The judging panel is only able to assess nominations based on the information provided, so please do not assume any prior knowledge, and include as much detail as possible. Suggested maximum word counts are provided on the nomination form to guide you.
- Nominations that clearly and thoroughly address the award criteria will be looked upon favourably by the judging panel.
- We would welcome as much information as possible about the impact the nominees and/or nominated initiatives have had. Nominations that include evidence, evaluation and/or testimonials will be looked upon favourably by the judging panel.