The winners and nominees for the Inclusive Impact Awards 2023 have now been announced.

The Inclusive Impact Awards showcase and celebrate individuals, teams and initiatives that are already advancing purposeful change at York around EDI - from research projects and inclusive education practices to collaborations, partnerships and community-building initiatives. 

Find out about the winners and nominees of this year's awards.

This year's awards event took place on 21 November 2022 and followed the inaugural awards event last year, which marked the launch of the University's EDI Exchange. Find out more about last year’s Inclusive Impact Awards, including the nominees, highly commended nominations and winning entries.

Award categories

Find out about the eight categories in the 2023 Inclusive Impact Awards:

Judging panel

The Inclusive Impact Awards were considered and judged by a panel of staff and students, drawn from the diversity of our University community:

  • Kiran Trehan - Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Partnerships and Engagement
  • Maria Ayaz - Head of Equality & Diversity
  • Adam Dawkins - Former University Secretary
  • Jan Ball-Smith - Head of Inclusive Education
  • Jess Penn - Inclusive Learning Manager
  • Wayne Campbell - Academic Registrar
  • Karl Butler - DTEF
  • Deepika Srinivasan - External Relations Administrator
  • Rukmal Abeysekera - Knowledge Transfer Manager
  • Becky Christou - Senior Executive Officer to the Vice-Chancellor
  • TT Arvind - Head of Department, Law
  • Chris Murphy - Senior Lecturer in Laser-Plasma Physics, Rainbow Alliance rep
  • Duncan Petrie - Interim Dean of Arts & Humanities
  • Jan Hardman - Professor of Language Education & SREF rep
  • Freddie Newell - LGBT Officer, YUSU
  • Shareef Fang, Phoebe Durojaiye, Tiffany Agbobu, Katherine Macy - Student Expert Panel