How to write a great nomination
Discover how to write the best nominations by looking at our guides below. These guides outline eligibility for each of the awards and outline the questions you'll need to answer as part of the nomination forms as well as the scoring system we use to decide the winners.
- Achievement Award guidance 2025
- Leadership Award guidance 2025
- Partner Award guidance 2025
- Student Award guidance 2025
- Top tips for President's Awards
The next nomination period will open in January 2026.
About the President's Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement
The winners of these awards have demonstrated an outstanding contribution to deliver inspiring engagement activities (with school, community, public and patient groups) or to support the development of a culture of societal engagement at Imperial. There are five awards available for societal engagement:
- President's Medal - awarded to an individual whose engagement activities have been truly outstanding.
- Achievement Award - for both individuals or teams who have delivered excellent engagement activities or programmes.
- Leadership Award - for individuals who have supported other staff and students in their own engagement endeavours.
- Partner Award - recognises those who collaborate with us from outside our Imperial community to make engagement happen. This could include patients, residents, community members and partner organisations in the public, private and third sector.
- Student Award - awarded to student teams or individuals who have delivered excellent engagement activities.
The awards recognise achievement in:
- Improving the learning opportunities of less-advantaged young people, as part of our widening participation and schools engagement aims.
- Engaging the public with research, through a process of two-way engagement.
- Working in close partnership with local community and/or patient groups in response to a social and/or research challenge.
Past winners
Lindsay Dewa: Nothing about them without them
We speak to 2023 Presidents Medal winner Lindsay Dewa as part of our Celebrating Engagement series.
Kelly Gleason: The Simple Act of Listening
Read about the Achievement Award winner Kelly Gleason and her inspiring work involving patients in research.
Invisible Warriors: Highlighting the Unseen
Celebrating Engagement continues with the award winning work of Linda van Keimpema and the Invisible Warriors.
Past winners
Faysal Farah: Increasing visibility in science
Read about the amazing range of initiatives that saw Faysal nominated for his Student award in 2023.
Engaging Children with Nature and Urban Wildlife
The Celebrating Engagement series highlights the Student Award winners: Urban Wildlife SSCP DTP Challenge Team.
Celebrating Engagement with Victoria Male
Our Celebrating Engagement series continues with Victoria Male, who won the 2022 President's Medal.
Past winners
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Celebrating Engagement with Louisa Thompson
Our Celebrating Engagement series continues with Louisa Thompson and Linda van Keimpema. Louisa won the 2022 Inspirational Partner Award in Societal Engagement.
Celebrating Engagement with Jackie Bell
We speak to 2022 Leadership Award winner Jackie Bell as part of our Celebrating Engagement series.
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Celebrating Engagement with Hamza Ikhlaq
We talk to Hamza Ikhlaq, winner of the 2022 Student Award in Societal Engagement as part of the Celebrating Engagement series.
Past winners
Celebrating Engagement and Communicating COVID-19
Celebrating Engagement continues with Imperial College London's Communications team, who won the President’s Award for Achievement in Societal Engagement in 2021.
Celebrating Engagement with Ugur Tanriverdi
We speak to 2021 Student Award winner Ugur Tanriverdi as part of our Celebrating Engagement series.
Celebrating Engagement with Alyssa Gilbert
As part of our series for Celebrating Engagement, we talk to Alyssa Gilbert - the 2021 winner of the Leadership award in Societal Engagement.
Past winners
Celebrating Engagement with Bella Spencer
For Celebrating Engagement, we hear from Bella Spencer - the 2021 winner of the Inspirational Partner award for the President’s Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement.
Celebrating Engagement with Dr Sunday Popo-Ola
Our Celebrating Engagement series starts with Dr Sunday Popo-Ola, who was awarded the President's Medal for Excellence in Societal Engagement in 2021.
Winners from 2021
From engaging global audiences with Imperial's research to de-mystifying higher education among underserved groups, meet the award winners of 2021!
Past winners
Winners from 2020
From a citizen science project with a local school to inspiring global audiences with volcanoes, we celebrate the achievements of this year’s winners.
Winners from 2019
From building educational centres in Borneo to raising awareness of women and minorities in STEM, read all about the 2019 winning achievements in societal engagement.
Fantastic outreach work recognised in 2018
Find out why Annalisa Alexander, Head of Outreach at Imperial, was awarded the President’s Medal for Excellence in Societal Engagement.
Find out more and apply for the awards
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