Business School recognises students, faculty and professional staff in annual awards

Arian Arjomandi Rad (Intercalated BSc) won the Dean's Community Award for Improving Society after volunteering as a medic in Italy during the pandemic and providing advice, guidance and support to peers working in UK wards.

Jessica Bosshard (MSc International Health Management) won the Dean's Community Award for Improving Society for furthering awareness, and promoting issues, around ageing.

Paras Arora (MSc Financial Technology) won the Dean's Community Award for Improving Society for excellence in his Staff Student Committee role and for his fundraising activity for Imperial’s COVID-19 Response Fund. 

Daniel Byrd, Anu Jain, Rhea Singhla and Chiara Vivaldi (MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management, MSc International Health Management and Full-Time MBA) won the Dean's Community Award for the Power of Innovative Thinking for organising the COVID-19 Recovery Challenge.

The challenge was a week-long hackathon to help individuals, businesses and industries generate sustainable solutions to post-pandemic challenges.

Nivaran Aojula, Arwa Hagana, Nour Houbby, Anannya Menon, Ridhaa Remtulla, Kajal Ruparell and Santhosh Thavarajasingam (Undergraduate Intercalated BSc) won the Dean's Community Award for the Power of Innovative Thinking for producing a range of comics and a thoughtful guide presenting scenarios in which psychological safety can be compromised in primary care settings.

Code to Care Student Conference organisers Beatrice Choremis and Tania Shetty (MSc International Health Management) won the Dean's Community Award for Inspiring Brilliant Minds for organising and delivering the virtual Student Conference during the pandemic.

Robert Vardanyan (Intercalated BSc) won the Dean's Community Award for Pioneering Practical Solutions for manufacturing 12,000 face shields following a crowdfunding campaign, as well as organising volunteers to distribute them to hospitals during the pandemic.  

David Watkins (Full-time MBA) won the Dean's Community Award for Pioneering Practical Solutions for his leadership of the MBA Connect Initiative including setting up a task force to discuss startup responses to the pandemic and facilitating the summer internship programme by matching MBA students to suitable startups. 

Chloe Francisco, Kristin Marin, Nicolas Pickard-Garcia, Philippa Stevens and Amy Trask (MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance) won the Dean's Community Award for Sustainable Business Thinking for the IB Green Minds podcast. 

The podcast is a weekly broadcast of the science behind climate change and sustainable business solutions involving high profile guest speakers. 

Sofia Skevofylaka (MSc Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Management) won the Dean's Community Award for Inclusive Business for excellence in her role as the Chair of the Dean’s Student Advisory Council, valuing diversity and harnessing a sense of community and belonging.

Marciha Musharat (MSc Strategic Marketing 2018/19) won the Dean’s Community Award for Alumni for the campaign she created to support people affected by COVID-19 in Bangladesh, providing essential food packages to almost 10,000 people in need. 

Sarvenaz (Sarvi) Ahmadi (Global Online MBA 2017) won the Dean’s Community Award for Alumni for being one of the Business School’s most engaged advocates. 

Professional Staff Kim Foxwell, Online Programme Manager

“Going above and beyond cohort and individual student expectations, demonstrating exceptional empathy and pro-activeness in ensuring a world-class experience for Global Online MBA students.”

Undergraduate Teaching: Dr Maria Farkas

“Extremely engaging teaching and she cared so much about each individual.”

PhD Supervision: Professor Paola Criscuolo

“She encourages and motivates me to follow the best research practices and keep improving the quality of my research. Talking with her is always fun and inspiring and gives me new ideas and perspectives.”

Online teaching: Dr Michelle Rogan

“She's really intuitive in assessing the level of energy of the class and uses multiple ways to keep us engaged virtually. I really enjoyed her online delivery and hats off to her for delivering a well-rounded online class on Innovation & Entrepreneurship.”

MSc MRes Core Teaching: Dr Pedro Rosa Dias

“Excellent, engaging lectures. Always invites critical thinking, discussion and opinion. Good varied use of multimedia and delivers complex concepts in a simple, understandable fashion.”
 

MBA Core Teaching: Professor James Sefton

“Corporate finance was one of the hardest subjects I took but he managed to make it fun and enjoyable, laced with humour that got us through the tough times.”
 

Innovation in Teaching: Dr Ying-Ying Hsieh

"Her instructions to ditch laptops and focus on case studies while ensuring that every single person had to contribute made everyone focused throughout the whole lecture and encouraged everyone to engage in enlightening debate."

Inclusive Teaching: Sankalp Chaturvedi

“He actively encouraged balanced contributions from each class member, constructively challenged everyone and facilitated stimulating discussions.”
 

Assessment Feedback: Dr Esma Koca

"She has been a wonderful mentor and guide for all of us and has always gone out of her way to support us, clear our doubts, guide us, provide references, rerun concepts from scratch, spend hours online on Slack, summarise the doubts and questions posted everyday for the benefit of all."

Assessment Feedback: James Eteen

“He encourages students to think critically and pushes us to do so. His feedback is always on time and well thought out - full of constructive criticism and praise where deserved.”