Christine Donald

People-Oriented: Christine has supported many of the faculties outreach programmes over the years. Namely - The Gambia Solar Project, Mukti Project and Tamil Nadu Project. Christine's tireless enthusiasm for these projects has been instrumental in their longevity and continued success in promoting the values of our institution, and in providing students with genuinely life changing and career inspiring opportunities to see the difference they can make to society and the lives of others as engineers. Christine has been largely responsible for raising awareness of these projects and their aims, both inside and outside via press coverage. Also, Christine's fund-raising skills have ensured that the projects operating under the University's charitable status have been made possible year on year. Her dedication to these causes and her determination that Strathclyde should be leading by example in these areas, I believe would make her a deserving recipient of a Strathclyde Medal Award

Margaret Lowe

People-Oriented: Margaret is extremely conscientious and personable and obviously takes pride in a job well done. She is constantly on the go and other cleaners never have a bad word to say about her. It would be really nice if someone like Margaret is recognised for all she does behind the scenes. Margaret is a well known and liked person who regularly goes above and beyond to ensure that the building is clean and well maintained. Margaret is described by colleagues an exceptional, highly committed member of the University, who takes pride in her job and strives to ensure that those in her team perform to the best of their abilities and is always friendly, approachable, courteous and interested in colleagues. Always greets you with a smile even at 6:30 am

Aileen Wilson

People-Oriented: As Events & Communications Co-ordinator in SEES, Aileen provides vital support to her colleagues in managing a host of communications and events which support the student experience and communicate the work of the Directorate widely. Aileen Is an excellent ambassador for the SEES Directorate in her work with the Learning Enhancement Framework initiatives and her support for for Get International Week and, notably in relation to her Management of our Children's University (CU)

Lizann Bonnar

People-Oriented: Lizann is a key member of staff here and her work displays all the above values. She is recognised as being people-oriented and in particular student-focused. She takes time to listen to, and help students with any difficulties they are experiencing. She won a USSA Teaching Excellence Award for 'Passion for the Subject' in 2011, and 'Best Overall Teacher' in 2012 and was shortlisted again for this award in 2013. She has also acted as our School Disability Coordinator, a role which she carried out with great commitment and to her usual high standards. She is a great team member. Having played a major role in delivering Psychology's excellent NSS results, she happily took on the role of University Assessment and Feedback champion to collaborate across the institution and share her innovative ideas, leading to development of the University's principles of assessment. Most recently she organised the British Psychological Society Undergraduate Conference. Her vision for organising this at Strathclyde was bold as she wanted to hold it in our fabulous new TIC building. The budget for this fairly low-level conference did not stretch to it as it is free to attend, but typically Lizann did not give up on this idea. She gained additional sponsorship funding and held the biggest, most popular UG conference that they've had so far. It was a great market place for the University as UG students were overheard to say they now wanted to come here for PG. Lizann is always keen to suggest ambitious new activities that she will take forward. She will never say that she is too busy, although she most definitely is. She is a 'can-do' person, always looking for innovation and bold new ways of doing things better I believe Dr Lizann Bonnar emobodies the values very well.

Lynsey Shaw

People-Oriented: I believe this candidate to be an excellent example of the core values that strathclyde university strives to achieve. Having been employed by the university on a contract basis for a number of years, i feel that all too often, she has been asked to undertake certain roles outwith her initial job description and she has risen to occasion every single time, often outshining her peers in higher positions. I feel that it is because of her exceptional work ethic, that the majority of her achievements in the centre go unnoticed by her peers and it has since come to be accepted, that her high level of delivery be as "standard" where others would surely struggle. She has recently been given the task of counselling our students with any immediate concerns about our course and i know first hand from student comments, that they feel reassured and happy to have her in that role. A role which wouldn't come easy to countless people, myself included. I believe that it is long overdue that her accomplishments during her time at strathclyde be recognised in some small way. She is an absolute pleasure to work alongside and having been at this university as an undergraduate and postgraduate, she is since transitioned to a well respected employee and i can think of no other staff member in my department who would be better deserving of this nomination. Thank you

Janette Birnie

People-Oriented: Janette is a wonderful Colleague. I have worked with her for several years and in every situation she has been considerate, responsive and extremely constructive. As HoD I have worked with Janette on some very tricky HR issues, including forced redundancies, Colleagues dealing with very difficult health matters and some awkward (former) Colleagues. In every single case Janette has been courteous, focussed and incredibly helpful. One of her greatest attributes is the way she can immediately understand a situation and how this might affect the person concerned. She has an intuitive grasp of how people think and feel about their job and this insight always allows her to create a supportive space for discussion in which people feel they are valued and leads her to tactfully defuse situations which could easily become confrontational. She also knows what is the best professional decision and has no trouble in reinforcing University policies but always in a way that Colleagues feel they have been listened to and dealt with as individuals. I often consult Janette on tricky HR issues and greatly value her advice; she always makes time for any question regardless of how busy she is. Janette has been our HR representative on most appointment panels in the last few years and I am always glad that she is there as she creates such a good impression of Strathclyde to candidates. Janette’s role in supporting new Colleagues joining the University is vital to demonstrate that they are joining somewhere that cares about them as people and cares about their successful transition to a new institution. When trying to recruit new Colleagues to Strathclyde, Janette is one of the Colleagues in Professional Services I highlight to show that things are different here. Janette is one of the hidden gems of the University; she is incredibly modest herself, and probably doesn’t realise how much she is valued, but she quietly makes all sorts of problems disappear whilst retaining her sense of humour and her commitment to making Strathclyde a better place to work in. Janette is our most long standing member of HR staff. She is dedicated, collegiate and has a people oriented approach in all that she does. She supports the Science Faculty in ensuring that their recruitment, contract administration and staff management runs smoothly; this is a significant job with a large volume of complex work. She does this without any complaint, being constantly supportive of her Science Faculty Colleagues and having a customer focused approach in all that she does. She has particular expertise in dealing with international staff; she is incredibly patient in her dealings with those for whom English is not a first language, explaining carefully and slowly what are often complex UK Visa and Immigration requirements. Janette is one of Strathclyde's 'unsung heroes', quietly working away and delivering support for her Faculty without fuss or complaint, regardless of often a very high volume of complex work with tight turnaround times. She is a popular, reliable Colleague within the HR Directorate itself, always willing to support other team members; Janette 'mucks in' without any questioning or moaning, regardless of what level the work needing done is at. I commend her to the Medals Nomination panel.

Rachel Clark

People-Oriented: In May 2015, Strathclyde won the first Horizon 2020 award as part of a collaboration with Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities. This award was to deliver, for the first time ever, European Researchers Night - a mass-participation, public engagement with research event across Scotland. Rachel project managed this event and went above and beyond, doing much of this in her spare time and at the weekends, including training of the volunteers. Without doubt, Rachel made the biggest single contribution to the smooth running and outstanding success of this first-of-its-kind event and, in the process, clearly demonstrated all of Strathclydeas Values.

David Cunningham

People-Oriented: David Cunningham is currently Director of Operations in DMEM. He joined the Department from industry around 2004 and since then has been a major force in supporting a number of key initiatives affecting not just the Department but the Faculty and University as a whole. In terms of Departmental responsibilities these have developed from initially leading the technical and safety aspects in the Department to leading all operational activities (IT, admin, technical etc.). In these roles he has adopted a strong collaborative approach focussed on developing and enhancing the Department’s research, KE and teaching profile but with an eye on integration with the wider context of the Faculty and University. An example of this is the way he has innovatively developed the Departments additive layer capability in the Digital Design and Manufacture Studio through offering an innovation service to industry and researchers - bringing in funds to reinvest in state of the art equipment, positively impacting on KE turnover and providing researchers with the latest in 3D printing capability. More recently he has been spearheading the ambition Faculty plans to establish a skills academy in the James Wei. David though, whilst, undertaking these departmental roles has become involved in a broad range of ambitious initiatives such as the establishment of the AFRC, the Weir Advanced Research Centre (WARC), and the UK Centre for Hydraulic Fracturing amongst other initiatives. In each of these through his people oriented and diligent approach he has played a pivotal role. For example, he was asked to support the AFRC building construction project from the client perspective and quickly became central to dialogue between Estates , the architects, construction company and the end users ensuring successful completion of the AFRC build. Likewise, he became involved in the Weir Advanced Research Centre initiative in a project management capacity and quickly became key to coordination of research activity, future planning and liaison with the company. The success of this latter initiative in down in no small part to David’s drive and initiative. Indeed from the WARC activity a number of new opportunities have arisen and been driven forward through David’s coordination, management and leadership, namely the successful bid to BIS to establish the UK Centre for Hydraulic Fracturing and the Strathclyde involvement in the recently announced National College for Onshore Oil and Gas to be centred at Blackpool and the Fylde College. As VDKE, I have observed him work on and operate in a number of departmental, faculty and university activities and roles. David Cunningham undertakes all of this work with a natural enthusiasm which characterises his relationship, getting the best from his colleagues and he has gracious approach towards all with whom he deals. He exemplifies the university values and embraces them in all he does. I therefore commend him to the review panel for the award of a 2014 Strathclyde Medal.

Susan Anderson

People-Oriented: Susan is the go-to person with any questions on the Universities Research Costing Tool (pFACT). The importance to the University of having grant applications properly costed goes without saying and Susan’s advice and interventions have ensured that numerous applications have covered all the necessary items, satisfied the rules of funders and met deadlines. Susan is highly collaborative in how she works with people both internally and externally, with integrity and in an open, respectful way. One of Susan’s key strengths is her ability to quickly make confident decisions, based on an indepth knowledge and expertise, and her innovations and boldness invariably deliver the necessary results, with deadlines met and grants properly costed and going beyond expectations

Tanya Kay

People-Oriented: Tanya has demonstrated over many years her tireless commitment to helping the University of Strathclyde staff work together more collaboratively - both internally and with a wide range of external partners. For example, when she drove the University's Research Day (URD) initiative for many years, she ensured that the management committee for the event was composed of academic staff from the four faculties, professional services staff ranging from SEES to Estates, and students; a truly One Strathclyde approach. This brought together individuals from across the campus (and across the job grades) that would not have otherwise had the opportunity to work together. The event itself was of course designed for the sole purpose of creating collaboration opportunities and Tanya always ensured that we had representation from across the university departments in addition to external partners. The URD was part of the Bridging the Gap (BTG) initiative. Under BTG Tanya once again put in a huge number of hours into working with individuals from across the university who had nascent collaboration plans; helping them to form these into proposals to be put forward for university funding, helping them to make links with people they could collaborate with, and helping them to go on to attract external funding support. The BTG and URD initiatives have run for around 8 years and Tanya’s efforts have played a significant part in the cultural changes at Strathclyde that have taken place over this period to ensure that collaboration is one of our values. Tanya has also demonstrated her expertise and commitment in establishing new external collaborations in her time as Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) project manager. In this role she had to work with both Strathclyde staff and external companies (both UK based and international) to understand what they wanted to achieve, to describe to them the role of the IAA, and to then work as a team to put together an IAA proposal. Her work didn’t stop there of course and she would continue to work with each partnership to ensure that at the end of the IAA funded period they were fully prepared to apply for the next phase of funding. I can say that in all of the above activities Tanya has been the consummate professional; she has a positive relationship with everyone she has worked with, she always listens to the full range of views before forming plans, and always makes herself available to those seeking her advice. So it is my great pleasure to recommend Tanya to the panel as a member of our staff who very clearly lives our values.

Tracy Morse

People-Oriented: Tracy Morse is an employee of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the University of Strathclyde, based in Blantyre, Malawi, and runs the Scotland Chikhwawa Health Initiative (SCHI). Her attitude and her work exemplify most of the Strathclyde values, but the following examples particularly highlight her innovative and collaborative approach. SCHI operates in an extremely impoverished area of Malawi to improve preventive health for families and young people, to limit the prevalence of diarrhoea, malaria, and STDs . Working collaboratively with the District Health Office in Chikhwawa SCHI has trained health workers to work more effectively with communities for the past 10 years. Working directly with communities and village leadership, Tracy and her team of Malawian trainers have improved understanding of the importance of health monitoring during pregnancy and early engagement with midwives, building trust with Traditional Birthing Attendants. This work has directly affected the rate of maternal mortality and infant mortality in the district. Responding to the challenges of enticing health professionals to work in remote communities, Tracy has gained the support of Scottish organisations, including the University’s Malawi Millennium Project (MMP), and FROM Scotland, to provide housing for health workers. She also linked up with Strathclyde staff in EEE to provide solar panels for remote clinics and schools and worked with Alumni Development to secure donations of motorbikes for health workers from Phoenix Honda. She clearly invests time and energy to identify solutions to the significant challenges faced in Chikhwawa. Tracy’s collaborative attitude extends well beyond her own project. While based in Malawi she has supported a large number of Strathclyde staff and students to engage effectively with Malawian partners. Many students of Environmental Health, Civil Engineering and Education have been relieved to see Tracy’s welcoming smile at Blantyre airport at the start of their Malawian research projects. Student volunteering organisations have also benefitted from her local knowledge and presence of mind to help them deal with unforeseen challenges. The MMP, which has delivered a range of university supplies from Strathclyde to Malawi, has been dependent on Tracy’s prodigious organisational capability to ensure that all goods from Scotland reach the intended beneficiaries. Academic staff have also gained an enormous advantage in developing partnerships in Malawi, based on Tracy’s local reputation for delivering on her promises. Even in situations where Strathclyde academic teams are effectively competing against each other for external funding, Tracy has consistently provided support and advice to all her Colleagues. During the visit of Scottish Ministers to Malawi last year, she co-ordinated a wide-ranging exhibition of Strathclyde’s work in Malawi for the visit. All of the current Strathclyde projects in Malawi have relied to some extent on Tracy’s help either in the introductory stage or in dealing with unexpected difficulties. In January 2015, Malawi was hit by severe flooding, leaving roughly 175,000 people homeless and many more struggling to access food or health services. Chikhwawa district was one of the areas severely affected by the flooding, with over 50,000 people displaced and many communities cut off from all external supplies. Within a week of the initial disaster, Tracy had mobilised fundraising in Malawi and in Scotland and coordinated the distribution of food, medicines and blankets to 5 evacuation camps throughout the district, working with the District Commissioner’s Office in Chikhwawa. Nearly 3000 people received temporary relief through these emergency deliveries. It is hard to choose which of the Strathclyde values are most applicable to Tracy, as she is completely people oriented, bold and innovative in her search for solutions, and generously collaborative in all her work.

Walter Galbraith

People-Oriented: Walter has spent 30+ years at Strathclyde working first as a technician and in recent years as an Experimental Officer in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. During this time his attitude, abilities, and delivery to students and staff has been exemplary. He is widely known in the Department, and despite retiring and now working part-time his input remains of the highest quality and standard; and in fact the time and effort spent would lead many Colleagues to think he was in fact still full-time! Walter's two main areas of responsibility were as a technician in the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering, and as an Experimental Officer in EEE undergraduate labs. Walter is very popular with students, and in undergraduate labs students will invariably look for Walter for help over anyone else in the lab. He always has time for students, never seems to get frustrated, and will always take the time to explain concepts, theories and technologies to anyone needing support. His participation in Outreach activities in the Dept is also another excellent example of his “People Oriented” attitude. In the last 10 years he has been a core member of the very successful Space School team which delivers engineering and science experience to school leavers. Walter has developed, presented and engaged with many 100s of Space Academy students and I would be very confident many chose to study engineering based on his efforts. He has also supported many other OutRteach activities such as the DG Smith Communications Week, China Summer Schools, the Mini-Space Academy, and he is always the first port of call to ask to show school students around, or help with setting up activities. In addition to the above, Walter has also spent almost 30 years providing technician support to the Centre for Ultrasonic Engineering. His line manager (Prof Tony Gachagan) describes him as a fundamental and core part of the research team, and once again his accommodating attitude and extensive knowledge makes him the first port of call for the researchers in the lab. Walter is one of the best known members of staff in EEE. He is well loved by all and therefore we wholeheartedly put him forward for a Strathclyde Medal and we believe he is thoroughly deserving for his 30+ years of exceptional service – always delivered with a smile.

Project Search Buddies

People-Oriented: Project Search at the University of Strathclyde is an ambitious project which provides young people in Glasgow who are on the autistic spectrum with job-related skills and experience with the aim of securing paid employment. Project Search is hosted by the University and works through a collaborative partnership including Glasgow City Council, the Scottish Consortium for Learning Disability and the City of Glasgow College to provide tailored training, work experience, life skills development and education leading to improved employment outcomes and independent living skills, a more positive attitude to life; improved mental health and positive relationships. Project Search is particularly innovative, in comparison with other initiatives, as its primary focus is on work-based experience and preparing the interns for the workplace with success defined as securing employment in a competitive environment Interns report daily to the University, learn employability skills in the classroom ,supported by a Tutor from City of Glasgow college, and job skills, supported by a Job Coach from Glasgow City Council while participating in three ten-week internships to gain work experience during the year. Interns participate in monthly progress meetings to define their career goal and plan necessary steps to achieve this. The ultimate objective upon programme completion is to secure competitive employment utilising the skills learned on the internships and throughout the programme. Project SEARCH started at the University of Strathclyde in August 2014 and our programme supports 11 interns who have worked in real jobs during the past nine months including HaSS and Pure & Applied Chemistry in a variety of administration roles and Estates Services in a number of operational roles (e.g. cleaning, catering, works management, residences, helpdesk and the Centre for Sport & Recreation). Interns have been partnered up with a workplace ‘buddy’ within each role who has responsibility for training and supporting the intern. Each buddy receives training related to understanding autism, expectations of their responsibilities in their role and the support available to them. This nomination seeks to recognise the tremendous contribution that the workplace buddies have made to the programme and to the student’s development through their tireless commitment to the training, development and support of the Project Search interns. This effort often goes above and beyond the call of duty demonstrating their desire to make a real difference to the lives of the interns and their families which truly reflects the people-orientation value that is synonymous with the University. Buddies, in additional to undertaking their normal regular duties, train and support the interns on a daily basis providing them with continuity and real-time feedback and support. The relationship between the individual interns and buddies is central to the progress of the interns and supplements the work done in the classroom. The interaction between the buddies and interns has helped to drive continuous improvement in the workplace both though increasing capability and developing confidence which is of particular importance for young people with autism.As a direct result of the commitment and support provided on a daily basis by the buddies we are already celebrating as 3 out of the 11 interns have gained employment (1 internally, 2 externally) before the programme has ended which shows fantastic progress in a new and developing project.

Nourish Catering Team

People-Oriented: I would like to make a strong recommendation for the University Nourish Catering Team. The team has in the past couple of years has gone out of the way to provide culturally sensitive diets and facilities to support diversity events. The team took an ambitious step in 2013 in participating in Cultural diversity training courses. From the knowledge gained they connected with a range of external suppliers including a company specialising in kosher food. They used the latter provision to support the Israeli women's netball team which stayed on campus for the World Youth Netball Championships 2013. The Nourish team received high praise from the Israeli team for their handling of food and showing sensitive understanding. It was said to be the best they came across on their world travels. Similar sensitivity was shown by the Nourish team for the Muslim Students Association’s interfaith dinners and ones that involved the equality and Diversity Office and the Mature Students Association. Students, staff and visitors that attended the events had only but high praise and compliments for the Nourish team. I am also impressed by the high quality of food, customer service, courtesy and accommodation provided. Indeed the team has gone of the way to support equality and diversity events by providing in-kind matched provision. In short the team deserves recognition and award for making a positive impact and difference on campus. Therefore I have no hesitation in making a strong recommendation.

Portering Team

People-Oriented: Always carry out tasks as timeously as them can, willing to help everyone and very pleasant to work with.

REF team

People-Oriented: The whole REF team deserve a medal for the way they went about all aspects of our preparations for the REF submission. Without their dedication, we would not have had such an outstanding result. They were always people-oriented - encouraging and supporting UoA leaders, Faculty staff, and individual staff who were needing support - especially with the narrative parts of the submission. Their attitude was exemplary and set standards on how PS and academic departments can work well together. They were collaborative - always working in partnership with Colleagues in the academic departments, never being overbearing or unreasonable in their requests. They set a tone for collaboration which was central to the way we went about our preparations - something that worked all the way through the 3-4 year period. Academics responded and it meant we had a one -Strathclyde ethos throughout. They were bold - there were times when they could have backed off and let individual UoAs go on with their own approach, but the REF team worked on a policy of collective preparation, something that had not been done at scale before in previous RAEs. This could have backfired, but did not. They were ambitious - for the institution, believing that with the correct preparation that significant improvements could be made across the university. They set high personal standards in how they conducted themselves and in their relations with academic Colleagues. They believed we could do well if we got it right in our Environment and Impact narratives. They were Innovative - using different approaches to get different people and groups involved. They also had to be inventive when it came to preparing Impact Case studies, simply because this element was new and no-one knew for sure what a good case study looked like. They also invented innovative tools to help UoA leaders track progress and make strategic decisions especially regarding submission tactics and GPA quality thresholds. I cannot think or a more deserving group.

Team-Wellbeing volunteer group and Safety Services

People-Oriented: Both the Wellbeing Group and the Safety Team have excelled in improving the University's arrangements for safety, health and wellbeing. This has recently been demonstrated by the University submission for both Silver and Gold healthy Working Live awards( announcement imminent), these awards can only be awarded if the highest standards are in place across all areas of safety, health and wellbeing. It has also been seen through the events such as Wellbeing Week in March, which was a success; which shortly followed the inspection report by the University insurer stating the University's H&S arrangements are excellent. The latter includes our written arrangements, our environement, our programmes of health surveillance and our evidenced management of staff/student occupational health and safety. The position of this composite committed team working together is unique; I believe it is rare to see such a wide ranging group of staff work so well in collaboration and I believe that this is a strength of Strathclyde which should be celebrated. The Wellbeing group is voluntary and combined with the work of Safety Services it has built up a superb framework and environment for staff which has really developed significantly over the last 3 years. They have met in forums to plan activity and ensure all staff are involved and they have worked with a set of obectives each year and continually delivered, and in many cases gone beyond what was expected. I think this whole team of people truly deserve to be held up and recognised by their Colleagues as oustanding citizens. As part of this submission I am able to forward portfolios of work and photographs of the events they have organised to evidence what they have done. I provide a list of the key staff that have taken an active role that would be part of the team. Alison McLean Andy Baillie Barbara Manson David Young Denise McElroy Fiona Buchan Jan Duke Janet Milne Jill Kyle Jo McFarlane June Hayes Kirsten Munro Lindsey Whiteford Monica Porciani Naseem Anwar Pamela McDaid Sarah Hunter Seona McKenzie Susan Lynch Yvonne Brown Louise McKerrow Mairi MacVicar Jacqui Gordon Arnold Clements Pamela Loughlin Gillian Simcox Wes Boulstridge Liz Tate John Constable Lorna Millar Irene Bryson Charlotte Millar Jo Hamilton