College Officer of the Year (Undergraduate)
Awarded to an officer or group of officers on a College undergraduate committee who have positively contributed to the College community. This could be by hosting a great event or introducing a new initiative, campaigning work on an issue impacting students within the college, or commitment to the remit of their role.
The winner of this award could have lobbied their College to improve an aspect of student experience, strengthened relationships within the student community, or engaged other students in their work.
College Officer of the Year (Postgraduate)
Awarded to an officer or group of officers on a College postgraduate committee who have positively contributed to the College community. This could be by hosting a great event or introducing a new initiative, campaigning work on an issue impacting students within the college, or commitment to the remit of their role.
The winner of this award could have lobbied their College to improve an aspect of the student experience, strengthened relationships within the student community, or engaged other students in their work.
your 2024 award winners
Undergraduate Winner: Andre Pancholi
Andre is one of the welfare officers at Homerton College. He has gone above and beyond in creating an incredible term card of welfare events throughout the year, including pumpkin carving, five pet therapy sessions and a bob ross painting tutorial night! One student noted that he is “truly one of the kindest, most welcoming people I have met”.
Postgraduate Winner: Emily Quin
As President of Pembroke’s Graduate Parlour, she has successfully pushed for improvements to college storage facilities, brought about the ‘Student Special’, a cut-price, incredibly popular option available at lunch and dinner, and launched an ‘Initiatives Scheme’ whereby the Graduate Parlour fund the student community
your 2023 award winners
Undergraduate Winner: Tom Moran
Tom has gone above and beyond in their role. They have taken on the mammoth task of improving the formal bookings system and are in charge of issues regarding all the rooms in the college.
They have visited college residents individually to see how any issues can be addressed and single-handedly visited each room with a tape measure to ensure fairness in sizing. As well as this, they sent out surveys to improve the students’ college experience, lobbied to create cheaper meal deal option.
Postgraduate Winner: Srijit Seal
Srijit has contributed to the student community at their college like no other in the last two years. They support all students with their unique inside knowledge of the inner workings of the college and the university.
They have provided a successful 24/7 mental health phone line cover for students, the removal of alcohol charges for non-drinkers at Formal Halls, and the introduction of halal meat on the menu at Friday dinners.