Birmingham Business School Student Impact Awards

You can nominate yourself for the following categories: UG Student of the Year, PG Student of the Year, Placement/Internship Student of the Year, and Graduate Student of the Year. Your nomination should reflect one (or more) of the five values below, which serve as the judging criteria.

A panel will shortlist ten of the best nominations for each award, and three overall winners will receive £500 each. The remaining nominations will be shortlisted according to the values categories, with winners receiving £250. All shortlisted nominees will be invited to the event, where winners will be announced.

You can use any experience from the past 12 months as evidence for your nomination. Reflect on your time at university, including work experience, part-time jobs, involvement in societies or sports teams, ambassador roles, personal projects, or community volunteer work. If the experience was completed while you were a student at the University of Birmingham, it counts!

Your application should showcase your extra-curricular achievements in one (or more) of the following categories:

Innovation: Your creative ideas or solutions have made a positive impact or improved processes. You embrace challenges with a positive attitude and think outside the box.

Collaboration: You demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively and communicate complex ideas to diverse audiences, boosting group productivity and creativity.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (ED&I): You show outstanding dedication to promoting diversity and inclusion within our school and university community, advocating for marginalised groups and promoting social justice. This could include involvement in community outreach programs, societies, or extracurricular activities that promote cultural awareness.

Social Impact and Responsibility: You exhibit responsible business practices and create positive social impacts through innovative or collaborative efforts. You may have started your own business or worked for another company, focusing on sustainability or community initiatives.

Ambition: You pursue goals with exceptional ambition, pushing boundaries and making an impact despite obstacles.

Watch our short video for some top tips! 

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All BBS students and graduates, both undergraduate and postgraduate, are eligible. Graduates must have completed their programme within the past year.

Your experience can be anything at all! We love to recognise a diverse range of experiences in these awards.

This could include work you have done in a society, sports team, or during work experience. It might be a project you have worked on, an ambassador role, or part-time work. It could also be a personal achievement, such as balancing your university studies with caring responsibilities, or volunteer work and giving back to the community.

The experience you feature must have been completed within the past 12 months from the date of submitting your nomination.
If you are a first-year student, you can also include experiences completed before you came to university, as long as they are within the past 12 months.

If you are unsure on what you would like to feature in your nomination, please contact us at bbs-careers@contacts.bham.ac.uk 

Yes, you can! Use different evidence for each nomination if possible.

Yes, as long as the experience is from the past 12 months. Highlight different types of experience from your previous nomination.

Of course! Please email bbs-careers@contacts.bham.ac.uk