MPLS ED&I Awards 2025 - call for nominations
We are thrilled to announce that the MPLS Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I) Awards are now open for nominations! These awards recognise staff and students in MPLS who have gone above and beyond in their efforts to advance ED&I within our communities, celebrating individuals and teams that have accomplished amazing things to make our workplaces a better place for all of us.
This is an important way to showcase the incredible work that MPLS colleagues and students undertake, which may otherwise go unnoticed. At the same time, the awards aim to foster and raise awareness of impactful and innovative activities in all areas of equality, diversity and inclusion (including disability, neurodivergence, LGBTQ+, race/ethnicity, gender, mental health and wellbeing, and more).
The MPLS ED&I Awards have the following four categories (details below):
- Best Initiative
- Best Team Effort
- Outstanding ED&I Champion – Staff (this includes academics, researchers, and professional services)
- Outstanding ED&I Champion – Student (this includes undergraduates and postgraduates)
Selected recipients or the project they are working on will receive £1,000 (which will be subject to tax). Awardees will be invited to the MPLS Annual Reception (date to be confirmed) and will be celebrated through upcoming communications and a divisional ED&I event (date to be confirmed).
Nominations procedure
Please complete this Microsoft Form by 4pm on Friday 6 June 2025.
If for any reason you are unable to use the Form or need support to complete it, please contact us directly on diversity@mpls.ox.ac.uk where we will be able to help. Self-nominations are also accepted.
Heads of Department and Heads of Finance and Administration may be invited to comment on and/or endorse all applications from their department before the deciding panel make a decision.
You can see previous winners here. If you have any comments or questions, please get in touch via: diversity@mpls.ox.ac.uk.
Award categories
Category 1: Best Initiative
For a successful activity or initiative aimed at increasing equality, diversity and inclusion in a department, group, or subject area.
Category 2: Best Team Effort
To recognise effective collaboration between team members howsoever comprised (teams may be within a department or across departments) working together on an equality, diversity and inclusion related activity or initiative.
Category 3: Outstanding ED&I Champion – Staff
An award made to an academic, researcher or professional services member of staff who has shown outstanding dedication, sustained commitment, and effective leadership or impact in advancing equality, diversity and inclusion.
Category 4: Outstanding ED&I Champion – Student
An award made to a postgraduate or undergraduate student who has shown outstanding dedication, sustained commitment, and effective leadership or impact in advancing equality, diversity and inclusion.
Use this Microsoft Form to make a nomination.