- Peer Support / Rewards and recognition / Peer Support Awards 2024
The annual Peer Support Awards took place on Thursday, 25 April 2024. We cheered on our amazing Peer Mentors, PASS Leaders, and Student Coordinators who dedicate their time to supporting first-year students to settle into Manchester.
The Peer Support Team took centre stage in Whitworth Hall to award Outstanding Contributions Awards to individual students, as well as to Outstanding PASS and Peer Support Schemes.
Peer Support plays a crucial role for new students, providing guidance from higher-year students from the same course of study who have walked in their shoes, as well as giving students a chance to take on leadership roles.
Award winner Ayush Kumarfrom the Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) Foundation Studies Peer Mentoring Scheme said: “I’m really grateful for the Academic Coordinators, my fellow Student Coordinators and the Peer Mentors who have helped us run this scheme for the first time. I was lucky enough to be nominated, and hopefully going into next year we can make more progress and boost the probability of Foundation Year students getting into first year.”
We owe our success to the dedication of students. A massive thank you to all the Peer Support leaders and supporters for their fantastic work. Our dynamic Peer Support community consists of over 1,700 student volunteers and dedicated staff members.
Our student volunteers are the heartbeat of Peer Support, always going the extra mile to make our University feel like home.
The full list of winners, and their schemes is below:
Anna Pirie (English, American and Creative Writing Peer Mentoring)
Eoin Muller (Mechanical Engineering PASS)
Ben Mansfield (Law Peer Mentoring)
Chenyun Zhu and Sarah Zulkernain (School of Biological Sciences PASS)
Imman Anas (Commuters Peer Mentoring)
Dr Martin Simmons (MACE PASS)
David Ruiz (FSE Foundation Studies Peer Mentoring)
Arianna Martin (BSc Education Peer Mentoring)
Yan Wen and Minji Kim (Sociology PASS)
Nina Xie (French Peer Mentoring)
Oliver Perez (French Peer Mentoring)
Rayan Albhlal (Aerospace Engineering PASS)
Muskan Longani and Kim Godinho (Commuters Peer Mentoring)
Nikita Saini and Hannah Byrne (Mechanical Engineering PASS)
Ayush Kumar (FSE Foundation Studies Peer Mentoring)
We also presented schemes with Outstanding Scheme Awards, celebrating excellence in specific areas. We received an outstanding 33 nominations across the 5 categories and the standard of the nominations this year was very high so the awards panel, once again, had some very tough decisions to make! We are delighted to announce that the winners of the Outstanding Scheme Awards are as follows:
Resilience: Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology (Runner-up: Physics)
Innovator: Optometry (Runner-up: Computer Science Y1)
Collaboration: BSc Education (Runner-up: French)
Legacy: Aerospace Engineering (Runner-up: Chemical Engineering)
Community: Mechanical Engineering (Runner-up: Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Check out the stunning photos from our awards night below, or visit our Instagram post for more event highlights. A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has supported Peer Support this academic year!
