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Pride of Newcastle Award

Pride of Newcastle University Awards

About

The Pride of Newcastle University Awards recognise your achievements and contribution to university life and the wider community through your extra-curricular activities. They celebrate students who have shone through in the ‘Celebrating Success Awards’.

These awards acknowledge students involved in activities such as clubs or societies, volunteering, fundraising, starting a new business, representing students or working on campus or beyond. This may be on any of our campuses, or reaching into the wider community on a local, national and international scale.

If you are a winner at any of the Celebrating Success Awards, you may be eligible to go forward to the Pride of Newcastle University Awards. You will then be invited to a celebration dinner where awards will be presented before an audience of students, university staff, graduate recruiters and city leaders. If you are an Undergraduate or Postgraduate Taught award winner, you will also receive formal recognition of your award on your degree transcript.

This year’s Awards Ceremony will take place on the evening of Thursday 8 June 2023 at 18:00 and will be hosted in-person at Newcastle Civic Centre.  You can view all of last year’s winners for the Pride of Newcastle University Awards on the 2022 Winners page.

Pride Awards 2023

How to enter

Any current Newcastle University student can enter or be nominated for the Celebrating Success Awards, either as an individual or as a member of a group. If the activity you have been involved in was accredited (eg a module or placement as part of your degree), you must demonstrate how you have gone beyond the expectations and requirements of the activity to be considered for a Celebrating Success or Pride of Newcastle University Award.

Winners from the Celebrating Success Awards will be considered for shortlisting for the Pride of Newcastle University Awards, where they could potentially win any of the 'Outstanding Contribution' categories. Visit the Celebrating Success Awards website for more details.

If you aren’t sure how your activity might fit into the Celebrating Success Awards, please contact the Students' Union.

Nominations for the Celebrating Success Awards open Monday 6 February 2023 and will close on Friday 31 March 2023.

 

Entry requirements and judging criteria

Entry requirements

To be shortlisted for the Pride of Newcastle University Awards: 

  • you will have nominated yourself, or been nominated by someone else, for a Celebrating Success Award 
  • you will have won a category at a Celebrating Success Awards level as an individual, part of a group or society at any Newcastle University campus, including our campuses in Malaysia, Singapore or London (special arrangements will be made for students outside of Newcastle to celebrate their success locally). Alternatively, you will have been put forward from affiliated University awards.
  • your contribution to the University or our wider community should be demonstrated
  • your activities must have taken place during the last 12 months
  • you must not have received academic credit for any part of this achievement, including those relating to work you have done on behalf of a business, whether employed, working as a volunteer, on placement, or setting up or running your own business (excluding The Contribution to the Workplace Awards)
  • students involved in the judging panel or organising the awards cannot be nominated for an individual award but can be part of a wider team that is nominated 

The decision of the judging panel is final and no feedback will be given on individual nominees.

Winning students, societies or projects cannot enter the same category of the following year.

Judging criteria

In assessing nominations, judges will be looking for evidence of how the nominee has made Newcastle University particularly proud within one of the category areas. This will be through outstanding: 

  • innovation
  • effort
  • contribution
  • skill development
  • enterprise
  • impact

Prizes

Prizes

For each 'Outstanding Contribution' award, the winning entry will receive £250 and the runner up will receive £50.

All Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught winners will also receive recognition of the award on their degree transcript.

For any society winners, prizes will go to the winning societies, not to the individual who completed the form.

Categories

For 2022/23, there are 10 different award categories to recognise our students' outstanding contributions through extra-curricular activity. Click on each category below to see the context and criteria for each award.

For details about eligibility, judging and prizes, see how to enter.

2023 Shortlist

We are delighted to announce that our Pride of Newcastle University Awards will be hosted in-person on Thursday 8 June 2023 at 18:00 at Newcastle Civic Centre.

The Awards will recognise the achievements and contributions that our students and alumni have made to university life, extra-curricular activities and the wider community.

View our shortlisted nominees for 2023 below.

2023 Winners

Congratulations to all of our students and Alumni who were shortlisted for the awards in 2023.

As always, so many of our nominees have gone above and beyond, demonstrating huge commitment and passion for their extra-curricular activities, the university and the wider community.  View this year’s winners below: