Nominations 2025

Alum of the Year

• Jenna Ross
• Leeona Dorrian
• Ogutu Okudo

Alumni Volunteer of the Year

• Corey Cowan
• Kyleigh Kirkland
• Stephen Evans

Philanthropy & Alumni Engagement Award 

• Vadym Kapliuk
  

Young Alum of the Year

• Giulia Marzetti
• Ogutu Okudo
• Victoria Kinkaid

Excellence in Assessment and Feedback 

• Faye Hendry
• Heidi Mehrkens
• Kirsty Kiezebrink

Excellence in Digital Education

• Derek Scott
• Katrina Foy
• Kirsty Kiezebrink

Excellence in Employability and Skills Development 

• Dawn Thompson
• Heather Morgan
• James Hislop

Excellence in Inclusive Education 

• Alyaa Mostafa
• Alyson Young
• Aravinda Guntupalli

Excellence in Innovation

• Adam Smith
• Barbara Barreiro Leon
• Susan Elphinstone

Excellence in Student Support

• Gordon Stewart
• Malcolm Harvey
• Richard Cowan

Excellence in Creativity & Innovation

• Francesca Soldati
• Nicole Cochrane
• Sandra Morrison

Excellence in Customer Service

• Annmarie Young
• Graeme Mutch
• Janine Whitfield

Excellence in Equality, Diversity & Sustainability

• Ellen Minshull
• Georgi Chichkov
• Heather Crabb

Excellence in Leadership

• Fiona Urquhart
• Nicola Pearce
• Scott Reid

Excellence in Partnership Working

• Christine Kay
• Jennifer Salmond
• Lucy Leiper

Outstanding Contribution to a Team or Role

• Lauriel Simpson
• Rachel Elliott
• Sarah Miller 

Outstanding Team

• HR Organisational Development Team
• Content Management System Procurement & Implementation Project  
• Summer Graduation Team 2024

Rising Star

• Amy Gill
• Gayle Thomson
• James Allan

Best Overall Course

• Barbara Barreiro Leon
• Flora Gröning 
• Lourdes Parra Laczano

Best PGT Lecturer

• Kate Smith
• Kirsty Kiezebrink
• Monika Gostic

Best Student Ambassador

• Hannah Cowie
• Lily Macdonald

Best Student Class Rep

• Ali Al-Batat
• Edward Shatipamba Hifivali
• Helena Fine

Best Support Service

• Go Abroad Team
• Multi-faith Chaplaincy
• Roman Catholic Chaplaincy

Best Support Staff

• Jacqueline Armstrong
• Rhona Gibson

Best UG Lecturer

• Daniel Pedersen
• Iain Greg
• Maria Sanchez Ortiz

Best UG Supervisor

• Federico Luzzi
• Takashi Kubota

Funniest Lecturer

• Colin Christie
• Doug Martin
• Sara Heim

Mental Health Champion

• Margaret Jackson
• Katie Cross
• Katrina Foy

Most Accessible Lecturer

• Aravinda Guntupalli
• Jonathan Hicks
• Jonathan Pettitt

Most Creative Assessment

• Gerry Hough
• Steve Tucker

Most Inspiring

• Katie Cross
• Daniel Johnstone
• Derek Scott

Personal Tutor of the Year

• Douglas Bain
• Edouard Fromageau
• Jonathan Pettitt

The Emily Drouet

• Anar AlRuwaie
• Haojing Gong
• Katie Ivany
• Mantasha Tamheed

Interdisciplinary Research Award

• Just Transition Lab
• Isabelle Gapp 
• Data 4 Net Zero Project

Outstanding PGR Supervisor

• Clare Sutherland
• Eddy Wifa
• Waheed Afzal

Outstanding Research Award

• Matyas Bodig
• Jie Wu
• Leonel Herrera-Alsina
• Rebecca Walker
• Catherine Sheard

Public Engagement with Research Award

• Constanze Hesse & Mauro Manassi
• Valerie Speirs

Public Engagement with Research Early Career Award

• Emma Berry
• Jennifer Riley

Research Impact Award

• Justin Borg-Barthet
• Rachel Shanks
• Burcu Yüksel Ripley

Success in Engagement with Industry Award

• Marcin Kapitaniak
• Amy Irwin
  

Alum of the Year

• Umberto Giuseppe Carriero
• Leeona Dorrian
• Ruth Dunster
• Suzanne Edge
• Stephen Evans
• Ogutu Okudo
• Anurag Rai
• Jenna Ross
• George Youngson

Alumni Volunteer of the Year

• Peter Fisher
• Corey Cowan
• Stephen Evans
• Kyleigh Kirkland

Young Alum of the Year

• Shara Arasaratnam
• Firas Bazzari
• George Bellamy
• Anna Gill
• Isabel Hall
• Victoria Kinkaid
• Giulia Marzetti
• Lucky Okudo
• Mae Rodriguez

Philanthropy Alumni Engagement

• Tom Greggs
• Vadym Kapliuk
• Simon Parson
• Thomas Weber

Emily Drouet Award

• Thomas Alexander
• Rageed Almousawi
• Anar AlRuwaie
• Hannah Ferry
• Haojing Gong 
• Jack Inglis
• Katie Ivany
• Shanivi Kaushik
• Mohsen Lalehparvar
• Abigail Meissner
• Lizeth Moreno Marquez
• Arya Patel
• Michele Robb
• Shahida Shahana
• Fionn Sparrow
• Mantasha Tamheed

Excellence in Assessment and Feedback Award

• Gloria Alvarez
• Catherine Francis
• Faye Hendry
• Jacqui Hutchison
• Kirsty Kiezebrink
• Heidi Mehrkens
• Amir Siddiq
• Judith Sijstermans
• Marius Wenzel

Excellence in Digital Education Award

• Catriona Cunningham
• Katrina Foy
• Panagiotis Kechagiopoulos
• Kirsty Kiezebrink
• Derek Scott
• Lorna Stewart

Excellence in Employability and Skills Development Award

• Stuart Durkin
• Victoria Faulkner
• Ian Fleming
• James Hislop
• Heather Morgan
• Fiona Murray
• Sam Newington 
• Adam Smith
• Dawn Thompson
• Nikolaos Vlassis

Excellence in Inclusive Education Award

• Euan Bain
• Archie Graham 
• Aravinda Guntupalli
• Kirsty Kiezebrink
• Alyaa Mostafa
• Mohammed Sheta 
• Helen Vosper
• Alyson Young

Excellence in Innovation Award

• Barbara Barreiro Leon
• Susan Elphinstone
• Nevena Jevremovic
• Kirsty Kiezebrink
• Aaron McGregor
• Adam Smith

Excellence in Student Support Award

• Tanya Argounova-Low
• Sam Bennett
• David Clough
• Richard Cowan
• Tommy Daly
• Mhairi Freeman
• Malcolm Harvey
• Richard Hepworth
• Alex Mackrell
• Samantha May
• Lenka Mbadugha
• Oleksandr Menshykov
• John Mynott
• Amir Siddiq
• Gordon Stewart
• Thanga Thevar 
• Pauline Williams

Excellence in Contribution to a Team or Role Award

• Jacqueline Armstrong
• Nicole Cochrane
• Tracy Collier
• Katherine Cross
• Jennie Dick
• Kit Dunster
• Rachel Elliott
• Karen Forrest
• Dawn Foster
• Anna Goldhawk 
• Deniz Gulen
• James Hamilton
• May Holbrook
• Christine Kay
• Annji Kinoshita-Bashforth
• Stefan Kyriacou
• Stephen Law
• Clare Livingston
• Pam Maclean
• Roy MacQueen
• Sarah Miller
• Karen Moir
• Amanda Rose
• Jennifer Salmond
• Karen Scaife
• Lyndsey Scott
• Derryck Shewan
• Lauriel Simpson
• Kate Smith
• Sharon Smith
• Craig Stewart
• Jenny Styles
• Lorna Thomson
• Alice Toulson
• Fiona Urquhart
• Melanie Viney
• Susan White
• Helen Wilcox
• Debbie Wilkinson
• Jackie Willox

Excellence in Creativity & Innovation Award

• Nicole Cochrane
• Alison Davidson
• Javier Martin-Torres
• Sandra Morrison 
• Gayle Slorach 
• Francesca Soldati

Excellence in Customer Service Award

• Jeanette Adams
• Wendy Arthur
• Rossiter Avril
• David Bremner
• Shona Carr
• Lisa Clydesdale
• Corinna Dingwall
• William Donald
• Gillian Duncan
• Graeme Euington
• Lydia Gahr
• Lyn Grant 
• Deniz Gulem
• Rebecca Hills 
• Robert Jackson
• Aileen Johnston
• Lee Kiloh
• Annji Kinoshita-Bashforth
• Gordon Layt
• Fiona Levett
• Karen Moir
• Graeme Mutch
• Matthew Norrie
• Wanda Petrie
• Kim Richmond
• Anne Rickard
• Jennifer Salmond
• Janine Whitfield
• Ashley Whyte
• Heidi Wong
• Annmarie Young

Excellence in Equality, Diversity & Sustainability Award

• Georgi Chichkov
• Heather Crabb
• Lucy Drysdale
• Marc McNaughton
• Ellen Minshull
• Rhiannon Thompson

Excellence in Leadership Award

• Inma Alhambra-Ross
• David Blackbourn
• Jaye Carr
• Owen Cox
• Stacey Dawson
• Mark Elrick
• Linda Engles
• Dawn Foster
• Anna Goldhawk
• Aravinda Guntupalli
• Leoni Illingworth
• Christine Kay
• Laura Kruitbos
• Clare Livingston
• Alex Mackrell
• Louise McKenzie
• Nicola Pearce
• Scott Reid
• Karen Scaife
• David Stoll
• Emma Tough
• Fiona Urquhart
• Alyson Whyte

Excellence in Partnership Working Award

• Vivienne Amakiri
• Owen Cox
• Christine Kay
• Wendy Laing
• Lucy Leiper
• Robert McGregor
• Yu Qi
• Jennifer Salmond

Outstanding Team Award

• ABDN Internship Team
• Alumni Relations & Regular Giving
• Campus Services Chefs
• Careers & Employability Service
• Central Timetabling Team and Invigilators for Additional Support Exams
• Classroom Support Team
• Clerk of Works
• Content Management System Procurement and Implementation Project - CMSPI
• Curriculum Team
• Custodians, Library Services
• Digital Communications
• Digital Marketing
• Disability Team, Student Support 
• Education Deans
• Employment Services
• Environmental Analytical Services Unit (ASU)
• Environmental Sustainability
• Executive Support PA & Administrative Support Team
• GPCME Administration Team
• Grounds Team
• IAHS Administration Team
• Iain Fraser Cytometry Facility
• MBChB Admin team
• MEDSCI Admin Team 
• National Energy Skills Accelerator team
• Online Education
• Online Education Team
• Operations Management Team
• Organisational Development
• Partnership Unit
• Partnership Unit School of Education 
• Philanthropy
• Psychology Admin Team
• Residences teams - including Site Services, Domestic services, Administration and Residents Assistants.
• School of Education Administration Team
• Site Services, Hillhead
• Student Services 
• Summer 2024 King's College Graduation Combined Services Teams
• Sustainability
• The DaSH Research Coordinator Team
• Toolkit
• UG and PGT Teaching Admin Support Team 
• UK Recruitment Team 
• University of Aberdeen Security Team
• Wellbeing Team

Rising Star Award

• Jamie Allan
• Emily Blake
• Amy Gill
• Jessica Hippey
• Oleksandr Menshykov
• Ijeoma Obiagwu
• Kieran Petrie
• Gayle Thomson

Outstanding Research Awards

• Matyas Bodig
• Jie Wu
• Marcin Kapitaniak
• Mehmet Kartal
• Isabelle Gapp
• Mehmet Kartel
• Just Transition Lab - Tavis Potts, Daria Shapovalova, John Bone, Keith Bender, Clare Bond, Alfonso Martinez-Felipe
• Tavis Potts 
• Malcolm Stone
• Ricky Ellis
• Leonel Herrera-Alsina
• Aliu Moomin
• Michelle Sader
• Catherine Sheard
• Wenceslaus Sseguya
• Rebecca Walker
• Yi Yang
• Mohammad Moradi

Research Impact Award

• Sumeet Aphale
• Justin Borg-Barthet
• Aravinda Guntupalli;  the BUILD Research Partnership
• Goutham Indukuri
• Amy Irwin
• Marcin Kapitaniak
• Sara MacLennan
• Wendy Russell & Madalina Neacsu
• Umair Shahid
• Rachel Shanks
• Shane Strachan
• Zoe Strong
• Burcu Yuksel Ripley

Public Engagement with Research Awards - Early Career Researcher Prize

• Barbara Barreiro Leon
• Emma Berry
• Vince Chukwu
• Francesca Farrington
• Sophie Greenwood 
• Illusion Night Support Committee 
• Buse Keskindag
• Jennifer Riley
• Yeshui Zhang

Public Engagement with Research Award - Main Prize

• Dr Mauro Manassi and Professor Constanze Hesse
• Constanze Hesse and Mauro Manassi
• Illusion Night Support Committee
• Mauro Manassi & Constanze Hesse
• Valerie Speirs

Outstanding PGR Supervisor

• Mehmet Kartal
• Waheed Afzal
• Rebekka Allgayer
• Sumeet Aphale
• Patric Bach
• Will Barlow
• John Behr
• Maggie Bolton
• Brian Brock
• Rama Chakravarthi
• David Clough
• Katie Cross
• Angel Cuesta
• Neil Curtis
• Ines Graca
• Nathaniel Greene
• Tom Greggs
• Aravinda Guntupalli
• Katherine Hockey
• Margaret Jackson
• Kenneth Jeffrey
• Mehmet Kartal
• Karl Kinsella
• Manu Lekunze
• Barbara Leon
• Fabio Manfredini
• Lenka Mbadugha
• Michael Morgan
• Madalina Neacsu
• John Paterson
• Daniel Pedersen
• Helen Pierce
• Amudha Poobalan
• Candice Quin
• Jennifer Riley 
• Colette Savage 
• Patience Schell
• Daria Shapovalova
• Srinivas Sriramula
• Clare Sutherland
• Sandra Telfer
• Léon Van Ommen
• Vahid Vaziri
• Flurina Wartmann
• Eddy Wifa
• Yingfang Zhou

Success in Engagement with Industry Award

• Amy Irwin
• Marcin Kapitaniak
• Richard Neilson

Best Student Ambassador Award

• Max Charles Vallarino
• Hannah Cowie
• Santosh Kumar Kalivarapu
• Kirsten Koss
• Lily Macdonald
• Abigail Meissner

Best Overall Course Award

• Tarek Abdelghany
• Barbara Barreiro Leon 
• Flora Groening
• Lourdes Parra Lazcano
• Jonathan Pettitt
• PH354P (2023-24): Junior Honours Research Project
• Agathe Rouaix
• Owen Walsh 
• Alyson Young

Best Postgraduate Taught Lecturer Award

• Lorna Stewart
• Waheed Afzal
• Leigh Bjorkvoll
• Val Bremner 
• Bennett Collins
• Agni Connor 
• Rossana Ducato
• Kat Foy
• Catherine Francis
• Santosh Gaihre
• Monika Gostic
• Alan Grieve
• Aravinda Guntupalli
• Mehmet Kartal
• Kirsty Kiezebrink
• Alex Mackrell
• Alessandro Moura
• John Paterson 
• Hossein Radmard
• Joost Rommers
• Derek Scott
• Zeshu Shao
• Amir Siddiq
• Kate Smith
• Lorna Stewart
• John Storm
• Kenneth Weir
• Alyson Young
• He Zhang

Best Student Class Rep Award

• Ali Labib Al-Batat
• Vipul Baberjee
• Rishabh Chaudhary
• Qi Chen
• Gladys Cleland
• Ifeoluwa Esan
• Helaena Fine
• Laura-Joy Gborjoh
• Edward Shatipamba Hifivali
• Rania Husain
• Elizabeth Illana
• Santhosh Kumar Kalivarapu 
• Mayur Kuppathil 
• Junxuan Li
• Hazel Newman
• Joel Odili
• Annalisa Ristivojevic
• Charlie Trupo

Best Supervisor: Undergraduate Award

• Takashi Kubota
• Mark Law
• Federico Luzzi
• Brian Mathias
• Sriskandarasa Senthilkumaran
• Ian Stansfield
• Kejian Wu

Best Support Staff (Individual Award)

• Waheed Afzal
• Marylee Anderson
• Jacqueline Armstrong
• Mark Barnett
• Tracy Collier
• Gillian Cursiter
• Rhona Gibson
• Carmen Guadalupe 
• Aravinda Guntupalli
• Mandy Innes
• Annji Kinoshita-Bashforth
• Rhea Lilchev
• Joost Rommers
• Alex Ross
• Avril Rossiter
• Joanne Saripanidis
• Kate Smith
• Alyson Young

Best Support Team or Service Award

• Marylee Anderson
• Melanie and Chris from The Go Abroad Team
• Roman Catholic Chaplaincy for Universities of Aberdeen

Best Undergraduate Lecturer Award

• Tarek Abdelghany
• Alfred Akisanya
• Shane Alcobia Murphy 
• Shannon Babbie 
• Barbara Barreiro Leon
• John Barrow
• Brad Bow
• Mirijam Brady-Van den Bos
• Graeme Brown
• Marcus Campbell Bannerman
• Luci Carey
• Catriona Cunningham 
• Peter Dunning
• Cameron Flint
• Fen Glover
• Iain Greig
• Flora Gröning
• Malcolm Harvey
• Anthony Heywood
• Jonathan Hicks 
• Gerard Hough
• Alison Jack
• Liliyana Kalinova/Zhivkova
• Karl Kinsella
• Alexander Lorenz
• Catriona McAra 
• Ross McPherson 
• Heidi Mehrkens
• Elham Moonesirust
• David Muirhead
• Carol Munro
• Samantha Newington
• Seren Nolan
• Lourdes Parra Lazcano
• Daniel Pedersen
• Hussein Radmard
• Devin Ray
• Thereza Sales de Aguiar
• Maria Sanchez-Ortiz
• Arabella Sinclair
• Sarah Smith
• John Storm
• Clare Sutherland 
• Andy Taylor
• Kathrin Thomas
• Bruno Tribout
• Tim Tricker
• Steven Tucker
• Nancy Wachowich
• Ilia Xypolia

Funniest Lecturer Award

• Shane Alcobia Murphy
• Colin Christie
• Phillip Cooke
• Catriona Cunningham
• Jenny Gregory
• Sandro Guli
• Sara Heim
• James Hislop
• Ross MacPherson 
• Doug Martin
• Steve Tucker

Mental Health Champion Award

• Katie Cross
• Katrina Foy
• Margaret Jackson
• Alison Lumsden

Most Accessible Lecturer Award

• Irene Couzigou
• Aravinda Guntupalli
• Jonathan Hicks
• Marcin Kapitaniak
• Daniel Pedersen
• Jonathan Pettitt

Most Creative Assessment

• Gerard Hough 
• Steven Tucker

Most Inspiring Award

• Lateef Akanji
• Ewan Bottomley
• Luci Carey
• Katie Cross
• Cathy Francis
• Daniel Johnstone
• Mitchell Lennan
• Sairuna Liwanda
• Derek Scott
• Daria Shapovalova

Personal Tutor of the Year Award

• Douglas Bain
• Phillip Cooke
• Catherine Francis
• Edouard Fromageau
• Malcolm Harvey
• Marcel Jaspars
• Suk-Jun Kim
• Mauro Manassi
• Amy Mcfarlane
• John Paul Mynott
• Jonathan Pettitt
• Lorna Stewart
• Clare Sutherland
• Tim Tricker