Criteria and guidance

The information required to nominate depends on the category of award sought:

The University seeks to honour a colleague who might be from any staff group (academic, professional services, technical or other, including in those in our subsidiary companies) whose outstanding contribution has delivered exceptional service and/or impact in supporting and serving the University community and mission, and consistently demonstrated the University’s Values set out in the University’s Strategy 2030, or who has made a demonstrable contribution to society - globally or locally.

On the nomination form please provide:

• A brief statement that sets out how the candidate has demonstrated exceptional support for the University’s mission and has consistently demonstrated the University’s Values set out in the University’s Strategy 2030 (no more than 1500 words / 1-2 pages).

Please note: it is important to identify how the University and its strategic priorities substantially benefitted from this nominee's exceptional service. For example, around the themes of discovery, education, people, equality and inclusion, international, knowledge exchange, outreach, professional experience/excellence, business. How has the nominee’s service beneficially impacted the University over an extended period of time? Only impact that has occurred in the past 5 years will be considered.

The University seeks to honour a colleague who has enhanced the research reputation of the University through a particularly significant, world- leading contribution to the progress of research in the last 5 years, and/or whose outstanding research has made a demonstrable impact and contribution to society, globally or locally outside direct academic recognition.

On the nomination form please provide:

• A brief statement that sets out the major contribution (no more than 1500 words / 1-2 pages).
• Please attach a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae, limited to two pages.

Please note: in principle just one piece of research work carried out in the last 5 years could be sufficient for a nomination, and only research that has been carried out while under the employment of the University will be considered.

The University seeks to honour an early career colleague, including postdoc fellowship holders, appointed to the University in the last five years, who has not previously worked for more than five years in a similar broad discipline, and who has in this time made a significant contribution in either teaching or research as described above.

On the nomination form please provide:

• A brief statement that sets out the major contribution as set out in the criteria above (no more than 1500 words / 1-2 pages).
• Please attach a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae, limited to two pages.
• A note of the year of the nominee’s appointment to the University.

Please note: in principle just one piece of research work could be sufficient for a nomination and only research that has been carried out while under the employment of the University will be considered.

The University seeks to honour a colleague who has recently enhanced the teaching reputation of the University, through a significant contribution to improving or invigorating student learning at any level.

On the nomination form please provide:

• A brief statement that sets out the nominee’s major contribution (no more than 1500 words / 1-2 pages).
• A copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae, limited to two pages.

Please note: nominees should currently be teaching at Edinburgh and have been teaching here for a minimum of two years.

The University seeks to honour an early career colleague, including postdoc fellowship holders, appointed to the University in the last five years, who has not previously worked for more than five years in a similar broad discipline, and who has in this time made a significant contribution in either teaching or research as described above.

On the nomination form please provide:

• A brief statement that sets out the nominee’s major contribution (no more than 1500 words / 1-2 pages).
• A copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae, limited to two pages.
• A note of the year of the nominee’s appointment to the University.

Please note: nominees should currently be teaching at Edinburgh and have been teaching here for a minimum of two years.

Alternative format

• The criteria and guidance document is downloadable as a PDF here:

• The nomination is available as a Word document from the following web page: