Informatics Staff Awards – December 2022
The Informatics Staff Awards 2022 were announced on Thursday 14th December 2022.
Winners
Team Awards
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A significant number of nominations for professional services staff and teams recognizing the extraordinary efforts and impact of recent People & Money and Diversity Travel launches. All professional services staff have been impacted but the following teams have had their roles significantly changed and had to navigate unclear guidance and system deficiencies: |
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Margaret Blake and Lindsey Fox |
For their extraordinary efforts in ensuring PGR student stipends have been paid |
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Donna Bolland, Abbey Morgan, Aneta Bos |
For their extraordinary efforts navigating entirely new finance processes and new organisational structure |
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Karolin Reh and Craig McKenzie-Smith |
For their extraordinary efforts, again navigating new finance systems and processes |
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Fraser Yuill and Valsamis Paraskevopoulos |
For their extraordinary efforts navigating new procurement systems and processes |
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Caroline Hastings, Carrie McNamee, Laura Rich, Ruta Bader, Fiona Williams, Barry Turner |
For their extraordinary efforts navigating new systems and processes |
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Kasia Stoinska, Linda Hope, Jodie Cameron, Heather McCartney, Sheona Wharrie, Steph Smith, Euan Morse |
Both for their extraordinary efforts working through difficulties with Diversity Travel to support academic and research staff and PGR students with their travel arrangements, and for working through issues associated with ordering goods and services via People & Money; |
| Student Support team – Marjorie Brewer, Chloe Downing, Jose Garcia, Beth Hughes, Sophie Mills, Suzanne Newall, Patricia Mizurova, Veronica Silvestre, Doug Mccorquodale who have worked tirelessly to implement the new student support model within the School, navigating through the various unknowns to support our students. |
| Research Staff Society Leads – Guillermo Romero Moreno, Luc Jaulmes and Chris Vasiladiotis for their work to reinvigorate the Informatics Research Staff Society, which is a great community-building activity for a group that often feel marginalised. The success of the IRSS is entirely dependent on the effort of individuals and Guillermo, Luc and Chris have made a great start on this and are doing a terrific job of fostering a greater sense of inclusion for the research staff as well as representing them. |
Individual Awards
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Octave Mariotti – for going above and beyond in working with the Machine Learning Practical (MLP) team to ensure course continuity between 2021/22 and 2022/23 by providing support to a new TA |
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Amos Storkey – for stepping in to undertake additional duties at short notice to cover for an absent colleague. |
Thanks also to all our other nominees:
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Carol Dow |
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Eilidh Guild |
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Emily Martin |
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David Sterratt |
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Oisin Mac Aodha |
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Liita Cairney |
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Antonio Barbalace |