It’s great to be able to launch the UHR Awards 2022. As you know, a key UHR aim is to enable HR innovation and learning from each other, and to build our professional skills base: these awards give a great opportunity to do this, and to highlight creativity and success. We want to show the sector and the HR professionals beyond HE that our HR practitioners introduce cutting edge practices that have real impact, and which enhance organisational culture and performance within UK universities. The UHR Awards are a great opportunity to encourage and motivate the HR team, even in preparing an entry – and even more so if you win. Make sure your team gets the recognition you deserve.
After another extraordinary year we’d love the hard work of your teams to be reflected in your nominations. We’ll be announcing the winners during UHR Conference 2022: its theme is Everyone Onboard! During a year when we’ve all been thinking about Covid, and hybrid working, how will you make sure your entry stands out? How did you work with the specific challenges and constraints your team faces, and what can other university HR teams learn from the thinking, practice and process your nomination describes?
The nominations form can be downloaded online and you have until noon on Friday 11 March to return your nomination. We look forward to hearing from you!
The winners of the UHR Awards 2022 will be announced at the UHR Conference 2022 - thankyou to all involved in making our conference a success each year, including this year's premium partners, Alumni and Workday.
There are four UHR Awards – here are the categories and criteria.
At a recent Showcasing Good Practice event, an illustrious panel of former winners gave us their top ten reasons to enter for a UHR Award.
The deadline for entries is noon on Friday 11 March 2022.
Winners will be announced during the UHR Conference 2022.
Entries are made by downloading the entry form and completing all sections. As the form is a simple Word document you can save it, come back to it after conferring with colleagues, and we often find the best entries are those that pull in several viewpoints to describe the achievement. That makes entering for an award both a constructive and an easy process.
Evidence of measurable achievement and impact should be clearly demonstrated, as the purpose of the awards is to be able to spread good practice that actually produces results. It’s important that your entry is a project, initiative or combination of activities that has already been implemented and had a real effect, rather than a good idea with potential that hasn’t yet made a demonstrable difference. Any UHR member HEI, regardless of size or type can enter, but it’s vital to provide evidence of your activity being cutting edge or innovative in the way it’s been implemented, and of its impact.
A range of people with experience and knowledge of good people management practice within and beyond higher education.