Welcome!
It’s been another great year at Sheffield Students’ Union, and here we celebrate all the excellent achievements throughout 2016/17...
Activities Awards
Cultural or National Society of the Year:
African Caribbean Society
Creative or Performance Society of the Year:
Dance Society
Faith Society of the Year:
Christian Union
New Society of the Year:
HackSheffield
Inclusions Officer of the Year:
Will Dyson-Sutton, SUDSS
Social Secretary of the Year:
Jess Edwards, The Bar Society
Best Society Volunteering Initiative:
History Society
Outstanding Society Charitable Fundraising:
UNICEF
Most Improved Society of the Year:
African Caribbean Society
Most Improved Committee of the Year:
Volunteering Committee
Outstanding Commitment to Societies Bronze:
Katharine Swindells, Sheffield Labour Students
Nicholas Hare, Surgical Society
Fionn McGurl, Medieval Society
Outstanding Commitment to Committees Bronze:
Jodie Stilgoe, RAG Committee
Stephanie Lee, RAG Committee
Sam Costello, SUTCo
Departmental Society of the Year:
Architecture Society
Academic Society of the Year:
Women in Engineering Society
Commitment to Ethical and Environmental Practice:
Vegetarian & Vegan Society
One World Award for Internationalisation:
Arab Society
Best in Digital:
BMS
Secretary of the Year:
Freya Gill-Stevens, Sheffield Labour Students
Treasurer of the Year:
Daniel Anderson, SUDSS
Webspace of the Year:
SUPAS
Most Enterprising Society:
Music Players Society
Outstanding Commitment to Societies Silver:
Anthony James, The Bar Society
Miles Benjamin, Sheffield Academic Medicine Society
Frankie Morshead, Photographic Society
Outstanding Commitment to Committees Silver:
Hari Krishna, RAG Committee
Jamie Blakeman, Forge Radio
Elsa Vulliamy, LGBT+ Committee
Political, Campaigning or Volunteering Society of the Year:
Sheffield Marrow
Special Interest, Media & Technology Society of the Year:
Yoga & Pilates Society
Commitment to Inclusion:
Swing Dance Society
Commitment to Collaboration:
Conservation Volunteers
Most Creative Publicity:
SUTCo
Event of the Year:
Volunteering Committee
President of the Year:
Megan McGrath, Vegetarian & Vegan Society
Chair of the Year:
Tom Mason, Forge TV
Outstanding Commitment to Societies Gold:
Sam Ambler, Pokemon Society
James Ingram, EEE Society
Maria Digby, Dance Society
Outstanding Commitment to Committees Gold:
Emma Rani, Disabled Students' Committee
Jenni Annoh, Film Unit
Siung Ghai, Volunteering Committee
Representative Committee of the Year:
Mature Students' Committee
Working Committee of the Year:
Film Unit
Society of the Year:
Sheffield Marrow
SU Achievements Outlets
- Bar One sold over 25,000 burgers since September/Sold over 125,000 pints of beer/cider
- Coffee Revolution have served 15,000 filter coffees so far this year
- New Leaf have served over 8000 wraps so far this year
- Our Sheffield donated £1500 to fund South African Scholarships
- We introduced scan on entry to club nights giving students a better experience
- 35 student groups (1600+ students) were specially trained or supported by the Specialist Development team
- 71,261 votes were cast in SU elections throughout the year
- Over 600 “Give it a Go” sessions were run for students this year
- Over 60 clubs and societies have shared their passion and skills with the community by running their own volunteering activities
- 204 attendees to Baby Bummit to Brighton raised over £15,000 making it one of the biggest Baby Bummit’s yet!
- We had over 33 students through the door for each minute that the Freshers Fair doors were open (11033 footfall and open for 5 ½ hours)
- Student Advice Centre advisers have completed 12,248 items of work for students so far this year
- 2,715 photos with Rory the Tiger
Volunteering Awards
New-bee of the year award:
Mimi Oluwande
(Edward Bramley Law Society)
Long-standing commitment award:
Natalie Jones
(Girlguiding Sheffield)
Ambassador of the year:
Inez Ying Tung Lau
Project Leader(s) Of The Year:
Arron Lord and Abigail Hutchings
(SIBS)
Outstanding Contribution Award:
Dedipya Immadisetty
(Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind)
Co-operation Award:
Science Alive
Originality Award
History Society Oral History Project
Community Impact Award:
Engineers Without Borders
Voluntary Organisation Of The Year:
Roshni Sheffield Asian Women's Resource Centre
Project Of The Year:
Flourish
RAG Initiative Award:
Kieran Berry
Bummit Award:
Ben Shaw, Sam Rogers and Robin Chapman
Academic Awards
Outstanding student contribution:
Tanya Waqanika
Outstanding teaching:
Joshua Forstenzer
Outstanding feedback:
Garrett Brown
Innovation in Digital Teaching:
Emma Nagouse
Best Postgraduate student who teaches:
Cyd Sturgess
Most Supportive Non-academic Staff Member:Daniel Tudhope
Best Personal Tutor:
Caroline Bland
Best Postgraduate Supervisor:
Nigel Harwood
Best Academic Mentor:
Daniel Barrow
Employability Award:
Trish Mellars
Academic Skills Award:
Rachel Staddon
Best Academic Representative:
Alexander Hamilton
Best Academic Representative Team:
Ed Robinson & Luutsche Ozinga (Arts & Humanities)
Best Student Led Academic Event or Activity:
Tareq Omairi
Liberation & Diversity Award:
Minna Shkul
Academic Communities Award:
Helen Cameron
Sports Awards
Coach of the year:
Martin Cook, Athletics
Volunteering Initiative:
Rowing
Social Sport Member of the Year:
Rhianna Owen and Emma Davies, Netball
Intra Mural Award:
Women’s Football
Commitment to Inclusion:
Tennis
Team Captain of the Year:
Sarah Stewart, Equestrian
Sporting Achievement of the year:
Jack Haslam, Diving
Club Sport Member of the Year:
Joel Gandhi
Team of the year:
Table Tennis Men’s First Team
Sports Personality of the Year:
Leona Awoyele
Most Improved Club:
Men’s Football
Outstanding Contribution to Sport:
Jacob Atkinson
Club of the year:
Rugby League
Officer Achievements
Dom, President
- Worked on developing the SU's relationship with local bus companies, helped introduce the new post Poptarts Saturday Night Bus
- Worked to secure another year of £1 bus fares
Michael, SU Development Officer
- Developed, ran and launched the Wellbeing Cafe: A weekly pay-as-you-feel cafe with regular attendance of 80+
- Successfully lobbied the University to develop a Sustainable Campus Development Fund, subject to final approval.
- Helped organise the inaugural and highly attended Students' Union Vegan Food Festival
Ana, International Students’ Officer
- Worked with the University on an Accommodation Guarantor Scheme
- Forged a Global Citizen identity through cultural celebrations including World Week, International Cultural Evening and World Food Festival
- Empowered International students through educational projects: the first International Entrepreneurs Programme, the Sexual Awareness Campaign and the Plagiarism survey.
Em, Sports Officer
- Secured Social Sport funding from the University to ensure beginner level opportunities across a range of different sports and classes.
- Engaged sports clubs with both the #WeAreInternational campaign and the #thisgirlcan campaign
- Won Varsity for the 5th time in a row! While also raising over £700 for the Special Olympics charity, and hosted a record breaking Ice Hockey final with over 8100 attendances.
Anna M, Welfare Officer
- Launched the Prioritise Our Mental Health campaign, promoting self-care and running a survey on mental health and wellbeing which received 2,079 responses
- Developed, ran and launched the Wellbeing Cafe: A weekly pay-as-you-feel cafe with regular attendance of 80+
- Introduced Time Out, securing an area during some SU club nights where students can take a break from their night.
Serena, Women’s Officer
- Secured approximately £150k to be spent on student safeguarding efforts, bystander intervention education, and training for supporters.
- Ran strong and inclusive liberation campaigns such as our 16 Days Against Gender-Based Violence, which engaged over 170 students and locals across a events including the biggest ever city-wide Reclaim the Night march
- Ran two leadership conferences for women and BME students, the Liberate My Curriculum event, the Forge tampon drive and the International Women’s Day Screening, collecting over 1000 sanitary products and raising over £1.1k for local women’s charities.
Ali, Education Officer
- Ran one of the largest campaigns against the TEF in the UK, saved current students over £7,000,000 and successfully boycotted the NSS which pressured the government into conceding to an independent review to look into the link between TEF, the NSS and fees.
- Lobbied for study space to be available in the university residences. This has been made available for the summer exam season and permanent solutions are also being considered for the future.
Anna B, Activities Officer
- Expanded the Participation Grant for the first term ensuring that involvement in societies and sport is as inclusive as possible
- Successfully organised the largest Activities Fair to date which saw over 9,000 visit the Octagon alone
- Secured more rehearsal space for societies around campus
