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2009's front-runners are poised for October's revelations
10 September 2009
The shortlist for Times Higher Education's fifth Awards ceremony has been unveiled
The 2009 Times Higher Education Awards have marked their fifth year by attracting an impressive 600 entries from 137 of the UK's higher education institutions. The individuals and universities that have made it on to our shortlist should be proud of the achievements that have made them stand out from their peers.
The line-up this year recognises outstanding achievement in 18 areas, with three new categories that recalibrate the awards to focus on the academy's core mission of research and teaching.
In terms of research, we have added the Serendipity Award, sponsored by Research Councils UK, and the Outstanding Engineering Research Team of the Year, sponsored by BAE Systems.
In teaching, it was heartening to note that the Most Innovative Teacher of the Year category attracted more than 80 entries in its inaugural appearance.
This year, the Lifetime Achievement Award became the Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award in honour of Ron Dearing, an inspiration to the sector and author of the landmark 1997 report into higher education, who died in February.
As always, shortlisting has been fiendishly difficult and time-consuming. The names on our roll of honour represent excellence in an inspirational sector. Now all that remains is to hand the even more demanding task of choosing the overall victors to our panel of specially selected judges.
The winners will be announced at the Awards evening at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London, on 15 October.
JUDGES
Patrick Finch, bursar and director of estates, University of Bristol, and chair, Association of University Directors of Estates
Paul Ramsden, chief executive, Higher Education Academy
Wes Streeting, president, National Union of Students
Ian Diamond, chair, Research Councils UK
Hugh Tollyfield, special adviser on employer engagement, Higher Education Funding Council for England
Dianne Willcocks, vice-chancellor, York St John University, and chair, Widening Access and Participation Strategic Advisory Committee, Hefce
Chris Cobb, pro vice-chancellor, Roehampton University, and member, Organisation Support Committee, Joint Information Systems Council
Philip Esler, chief executive, Arts and Humanities Research Council
Ann Mroz, editor, Times Higher Education Phil Baty, deputy editor, Times Higher Education
Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers - Sponsored by Research Councils UK in association with Vitae
- University of Cambridge
- Durham University
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Manchester
- University of Nottingham
- University of Oxford
Outstanding Support for Students - Sponsored by Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education
- Aston University
- Bucks New University
- University of Chester
- Harper Adams University College
- University of Leicester
- Oxford Brookes University
Outstanding Employer Engagement Initiative - Sponsored by Foundation Degree Forward
- University of Glamorgan
- Greater Manchester Strategic Alliance
- Lancaster University
- University of Lincoln
- Stockport College
- Teesside University
Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology - Sponsored by Elsevier
- University of Bath
- Birmingham City University
- De Montfort University
- University of Greenwich
- Imperial College London
- University of Leicester
Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development
- University of Bradford
- Durham University
- University of East Anglia
- Nottingham Trent University
- University College London
- University of the West of England
Excellence and Innovation in the Arts
- Brunel University
- University of Dundee
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Oxford Brookes University
- University of Portsmouth
- University for the Creative Arts
Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community
- Birkbeck, University of London
- University of Central Lancashire
- University of Derby
- Glyndwr University
- Newcastle University
- University of Strathclyde
Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year - Sponsored by Joint Information Systems Committee
- Bucks New University
- Cardiff University
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- Queen's University Belfast
- University of Reading
- St George's, University of London
Most Improved Student Experience
- Canterbury Christ Church University
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Essex
- Queen Mary, University of London
- Southampton Solent University
- Staffordshire University
- University of Sussex
Research Project of the Year
- Bournemouth University
- University of Bristol
- Institute of Education
- Lancaster University
- Queen Mary, University of London
- University of York
Widening Participation Initiative of the Year
- University of Brighton
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- University of Northampton
- The Open University
- Royal Veterinary College
- University of Ulster
Outstanding Engineering Research Team of the Year - Sponsored by BAE Systems
- University of Greenwich
- University of Leeds
- Loughborough University
- Newcastle University
- University of Plymouth
- University of Southampton
Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development - Sponsored by Leadership Foundation for Higher Education
- University of Derby
- University of Central Lancashire
- Institute of Education
- University of Leeds
- University for the Creative Arts
- University of York
Entrepreneurial University of the Year - Sponsored by National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship
- Coventry University
- University of Hertfordshire
- University of Portsmouth
- Queen's University Belfast
- University of Surrey
- University of Strathclyde
Serendipity Award - Sponsored by Research Councils UK
- Cardiff University
- King's College London
- University of Oxford
- University of Nottingham (Professor Sir Peter Mansfield)
- University of Nottingham (Dr Edward Lester)
- Queen Mary, University of London
Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award
There is no shortlist. The winner, chosen by Times Higher Education's editorial board, will be announced on the night of the Awards ceremony.
Most Innovative Teacher of the Year
- Leslie Arthur, Nottingham Trent University
- Sarah Baillie, Royal Veterinary College
- Paul Curzon, Queen Mary, University of London
- Penny Green, King's College London
- Nick Halafihi, Leeds Metropolitan University
- Catherine Sanderson, Leeds Metropolitan University
University of the Year - Sponsored by Iskandar Malaysia
- Bournemouth University
- University of Nottingham
- Queen Mary, University of London
- Teesside University
- University of Warwick
- University of Winchester.
Readers' comments
go King's College London
Go Sussex......... Together we can, we will !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
go Queen Mary, University of London!!!! Uni of the Year!!
What no London Met?
Serendipity Award - University of Nottingham (Professor Sir Peter Mansfield) ...he graduated from Queen Marys, UoL. The noble peace prize goes to the scientist and the university they graduated from not where they currently working.
Unfortunately this isn't the noble (or indeed, the Nobel) peace prize. As the Serendipity Award is sponsored by Research Councils UK, one suspects that it is awarded for current or recent research. Attribution to the nominee's current organisation (where said research is/was conducted) is therefore entirely appropriate.
cum on!!!!!!!! QUEEN MARYY!!!!!!! QUEENS ON ENGLAND!!!!! INSHALLAH
well done Teesside for getting shortlisted for 2 prizes including university of the year! this place doesnt get half the recognition it deserves!! yay go Teesside!!!
Good going Queen Mary University of London
What! No Imperial College for 'Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers' or 'Outstanding Support for Students'. Have the judges decided to look at the facts rather than the hype! How refreshing.
Come on Teesside we totally deserve this award. We are top of our league for Media and it's a fab university. Come on Teesside for University of the Year!!! Yes I'm a student there.
::My vote for Teesside University !!! You already make us proud !! University of The Year !!!::
Teesside University is a brilliant place to work - I am proud to be connected to this amazing institution as an academic member of staff. Everyone is passionate about what we do , Good luck at the award ceremony!
I can't wait til tomorrow to see how my fantastic employer gets on- goooo Teesside!
Well done Teesside!!
Congratulations to Teesside University.
its all about Queen Mary UoL... Go on Queen Mary...
Well done colleagues at Teesside. We all work hard, our students love being here and these two awards are extremely well deserved. :-)
Teesside University one of the finest Universities in England. People should try to go to Teesside University and see what the professors, senior lecturers and staff have got to give. It is an amazing university, and I am quite certain give it few years, it is going to top the table in the best universities league in Britain. Although Middlesbrough where it is situated is a small town, the University makes the town lively and attractive. It is a university feel with energy, and I am proud to mention that the North East of England has one of the best universities to be in the top 5 in the near future, so watch out Cambridge and Oxford, Teesside is coming for you, and this is not a joke by the way, it is possible, any university in England is capable to be number 1. well done Teesside and go Teesside University......Teesside University forever.....
Well done senior management at Teesside. Your employees have been on the Net for a few days as you intructed them to do. The carrot and stick persuation has really helped. But the posters here have at least some education and they can read behind their postings. Now having won this gong (only from the THE) and have done singing and dancing all the weekend, could we now see Teesside climbing up the The Times UK University league table, from its current pathetic position at 81 to somewhere near 50+ say near Robert Gordon's at 51? You see at the moment Teesside is recruiting the students with 2, 1 or no A2 levels, literally from the streets to fill the numbers. No need to challenge Oxbridge (which recruits students with 360 UCAS points compared to Tesside with 40 or even 0), challenge the likes of Robert Gordon's and Oxford Brookes. As for the Middlesbrough town see: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204127/Middlesbrough-really-worst-place-live.html. The fact that this town has to be introduced says a lot, unlike Cambridge and Oxford. No one knows about this town outside NE and no one cares. Finally, do me a favour. take a poll of the members of the staff in Teesside and ask them how many of them are sending their own sons/daughters to Teesside. You have some surprise waiting there ( it will remind you of Labour Party MPs sending their kids to independent schools and selective grammar schools, while saying how wonderful comprehensives are for others)
The mean-spiritedness of people like Sanderson is quite breath-taking. So Teesside won an award. Let them have their day in the sun. It's no skin off your nose. Why be so nasty? You must be one unhappy bastard. Not everyone can go to Oxbridge, and what's the betting that Sanderson didn't either?
To The THE Editor: Please check this person "Richard's" language. It is breaking the THE rules. Should this stay undeleted? A warning sign would be appropriate here.
@Richard. Could you not post without using nastier language and calling "Sanderson" names? Looking at 8 posters who say how good Teesside is "Sanderson" has put a different point of view. Tell us what is factually wrong in the postion of Teesside at 81 in The league table, its recruitment policies in respect of entry requirements or the report from the news paper about the town which also appeared in Daily Mirror i n 2007?
Queen Mary University of London will always be my University of the year....ALWAYS. :) LONG LIVE QMUL.
I am so happy that Teesside won university of the year now I can show my dad that I have not wasted me time going there. True it is in the 80s in the league tables but who cares! It is a brilliant university with excellent facilities, great teaching and a friendly atmosphere. I greatly believe that a degree is a degree and society's prejudices do not detract from the value of a degree. Why should a 2:1 from Teesside be any different than a 2:1 from Kings College London say? Did the students from Teesside not work as hard? Teesside takes students from all backgrounds with a range of experience and qualifications because why should others be excluded from university and getting a degree just because they didn't get the "necessary" 3 As required for our older insitutions. A degree is a degree no matter where you get it from the differences between Oxbridge and Teesside when you boil everything down, looking past the prejudices of society and culture, is Teesside did not turn its back on those who did not do as well as they hoped and can recognise that everyone has potential and can do anything if put the work in. In the words of Alan Bennet those people who turn their nose up at Teesside are "confusing learning with smell of cold stone".
TEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSIDE !!! UNI OF THE YEAR!!
well done teesside!!!!!!
James (from Hong Kong, CHINA)---9 December, 2009 I must lift my "academic" hat off to Teesside University and commend it on its achievements in 2009. This year has certainly been a tremendously successful one for the university. I think it's also important to realise that this is not just a one-off success. I do know that the university has many past success stories which could be told by ex-graduates and Alumni. Perhaps now is an appropriate time for some of us to speak up. I should explain that I am a former student, Lecturer and now member of Alumni of Teesside University. Equipped with my knowledge and academic qualifications gained from Teesside, I've been able to compete at the highest level of academia internationally. However, this message is not about me. At this time people like me (i.e. ex-graduates, Alumni, etc.) feel very proud of the university and consequentally will lend support, where possible, for its future success.
James (from Hong Kong, CHINA)---9 December, 2009 I must lift my "academic" hat off to Teesside University and commend it on its achievements in 2009. This year has certainly been a tremendously successful one for the university. I think it's also important to realise that this is not just a one-off success. I do know that the university has many past success stories which could be told by ex-graduates and Alumni. Perhaps now is an appropriate time for some of us to speak up. I should explain that I am a former student, Lecturer and now member of Alumni of Teesside University. Equipped with my knowledge and academic qualifications gained from Teesside, I've been able to compete at the highest level of academia internationally. However, this message is not about me. At this time people like me (i.e. ex-graduates, Alumni, etc.) feel very proud of the university and consequentally will lend support, where possible, for its future success.