Union Awards 2026 Nominees | Imperial College Union

Nominations have now closed and our panels are underway deliberating your Union Award winners for 2026.

Congratulations to all our nominees on their hard work across the year, and for being recognised by their peers in the Imperial community! Your work does not go unnoticed and makes Imperial the amazing place it is to study.

We’d love to celebrate with you all at this year’s Union Awards on Friday 29 May. Tickets are free and make sure to RSVP here. All members of the Imperial community and guests of Imperial are welcome to attend.

Here are your nominees for the 2026 Union Awards:

Student and Joint Awards

Campaign of the Year

Ollie Newbould
Amy Lloyd-Evans
Comfort Oluwakoya

Club or Society of the Year

Turkish Society
Indian Society
Hockey
Fellwanderers - Imperial Hiking Society
Sailing
Taekwondo
Water Polo
RAG
Teddy Bear Hospital
Women in SET
A Cappella
Neurotechnology
Rail and Transport Society
Medical Women's Federation
Boat
ICSM Netball

Event of the Year

RSM Mascot Centenary
Housing Initiative in Life Sciences
Tech for Good Hackathon
ICSM's Annual Halfway Dinner
UH Sports Night
ICSM RAG Fashion Show
RCSU Alumni Career Panels
IDEA
She Leads Conference
Trauma Conference
CGCU Makeathon
Faculty of Medicine Sports Day
Mastering Your Medical Application (MMA) Day
Muslim Medics Conference
NHLI postgraduate event
RCSU Autumn Ball
Teddy Bear Hospital

Inclusivity Award

Amy Woolverton
Ash Shaikh
Amy Lloyd-Evans
Nadeen Daka
Medical Women's Federation
Grace Wiggall
Charlotte Bailey

Most Improved Club or Society of the Year

Teddy Bear Hospital
Taekwondo
Padel
TEDx
MedTech
Funkology
Medical Women's Federation

New Club or Society of the Year

MedTech
Bioeng Society
Padel
Medical Women's Federation
Sign Language

PG Representative of the Year

Paulina Gordina
Emil Huseynli
Hannah Liu
Leo Liu
Shedrack Nwaokocha
Sia Gbondo
Philippe de Saint-Seine
Dawood Khan
Claudia Blanco Toral
Alexander Taylor

Student and Staff Partnership Award

Emily Wagner (Faculty of Medicine) & Martina Fisk (Student Support Coordinator)
Julia Mitra (Department of Chemical Engineering) & Jess Money (Sustainability Engagement staff)
Shedrack Nwaokocha (School of Public Health) & MOVE Imperial

Sustainability Award

Marketa Simkova
Julia Mitra

UG Academic Representative of the Year

Vasily Vanifatov
Lili Gyopar
Zanira Ismaili
Harshil Patel
Madhulika Mandavilli
Rohan Shenoy
Elaine Ng
Zoe Hall
Aqsa Syed
Shimona Clington Fernando
Yeline Idir
Safaa Qazi
Eli Liu
Rama Aowidah

UG Wellbeing Representative of the Year

Jakob Hammerschmidt
Iolanthe Georghiou
Anna Murray-Leslie
Kevin Jang
Aatmaananda Nagar Nayak
Apollo Yang

Staff Awards

Outstanding Contribution to Student Community and Wellbeing

Vijesh Bhute
Emma Mattin
Nikiaisha Thompson
Chandler Bray
Cristebel Groves
Annie Willmot
Luke Degun
Danny Lee
Daniel Gellai
Driss Matine
Nivethitha Ganapathiram
Aaron Lett

Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant

Ayham Al-Saffar
Avyay Jamadagni
Matt Scott
Dawood Khan
Binghuan Li
Iva Koci

Outstanding Personal Tutoring

Paul Dauncey
Audrey Gaulard
Maria Valera-Espina
Fanny Mozu-Simpson
David Mann
Julia Schroeder

Outstanding Professional Support Staff

Ho Yee Dorothy Chan
Clodagh Li
Sharad Patel
Joel Eustaquio
Cristebel Groves
Sharad Patel
Luke Degun
Daniel Gellai
Rebecca Middleton
Joanna Fownes
Paschal Egan
Iain Boyd

Outstanding Research Supervision

Mikael Sodergren
Angeliki Menegaki
Laura Lennox
Joseph van Batenburg-Sherwood
Barbara Bravi
John Tregoning
Milo Shaffer
Nima Haghdadi
Vaclav Pavlicek
Pierre Pinson
Elena Dieckmann

Outstanding Teaching

Euan Doidge
Steven Sivek
Steven Cook
Fangce Guo
James Barlow
Pietro Ferraro
Nima Haghdadi
Savitar Sundaresan
Danielle Lyssimachou
Sam Cooper
Marta Vazquez-Ortiz
Giselle Farrer
Josh Hodge
Mark Oxborrow
Euan Doidge
Riccardo Passeggeri
Pelin Demirel Liu
Travis Schedler
Weston Baxter
Mark Pope
Julie Hoang

Shortlisted nominees will be announced closer to the event date. Make sure to come along and celebrate with us on the night and to find out if you’ve won!

Union Colours and Union Fellowship awardees will be announced on the night of the event.