About the President's Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement

The winners of these awards have gone above and beyond 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.
  
• Inspirational Partner Award - recognises those who collaborate with us from outside our Imperial community to make engagement happen.
  
• 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.

Staff and students recognised at the 2023 President’s Awards

Science cafes, podcasts, schools outreach and polystyrene balls representing nanomaterials – these are just some of the tools deployed by the 2023 winners of the President’s Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement.

#CelebratingEngagement with Victoria Male

Our #CelebratingEngagement series continues with Victoria Male, who won the 2022 President's Medal as part of the President's Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement. Victoria took time to talk to the Public Engagement team about her valuable work, why engagement is important to her, and how it has influenced her future projects.