Sponsoring: University of the Year

Adobe empowers university faculty around the world to prepare students for the modern economy with Adobe Creative Cloud’s career-relevant digital tools for creative and persuasive communications, so that students across all disciplines can actively participate in the classroom and graduate with digital skills for the workplace. Adobe is committed to helping institutions incorporate digital tools into the curriculum with resources such as free professional development and teaching modules. We share best practices from our partner institutions and host discussions and forums for a wide range of higher education leaders.

Sponsoring: Most Innovative Teacher of the Year
Outstanding Contribution to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Sponsoring: THE Outstanding Achievement Award

Anderson Quigley supports sectors focused on education and social development. We work across higher education, partnering with universities and sector organisations to scope and shape leadership requirements and find the best people. Providing outstanding levels of service to clients and candidates, our role is to absorb the pressures of complex people processes. Every assignment is managed with our core values in mind: integrity, diversity and hands-on project ownership.

Supporting people and organisations to build a better society.

At ApplyBoard, we believe that education is a right, not a privilege. We empower people around the world to access the best education available. Through our platform and team of experts, we streamline the application process, from submission to enrollment, assisting thousands of students to pursue their dreams of studying abroad.
We have built partnerships with over 1,500 primary, secondary, and post-secondary educational institutions, and work with 7,500+ recruitment partners, to drive diversity on campuses across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia.
ApplyBoard has grown to become the world’s largest online platform for international student recruitment, assisting more than 200,000 students with their educational journeys.

Sponsoring: Outstanding Research Supervisor of the Year and Research Project of the Year: STEM

Elsevier Research Intelligence helps research managers, funders and policy-makers get the most from their data with a suite of useful tools and services that include:

- SciVal, which offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 6,000 research institutions and 220 nations worldwide
- Pure, which aggregates your organization's research information Analytical Services, which provide accurate unbiased research performance analysis
- Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature
- Mendeley, your free reference manager and academic social network

Elsevier enables research organizations to make better decisions, improve collaboration, attract investment and optimise expenditure.

Sponsoring: Outstanding Library Team

Kortext's purpose is simple - to help educate the next generation of difference makers.
We will do this by providing all the learning content a student needs, delivered on a smart learning platform that enables study, connection and collaboration. As the leading supplier of digital textbooks in the UK, supporting millions of students at over 100 UK universities and hundreds more overseas, we are used in over 80 countries around the world actively supporting learning 24/7. We deliver the required content directly to each student on the most sophisticated learning platform available that embeds the content with the course and actively supports students, their lecturers and university libraries.

Sponsoring: Outstanding Entrepreneurial University

The National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education (NCEE) supports higher education to build its entrepreneurial future. Working with universities, its senior leadership and practitioners we provide a range of services ensuring UK higher education remains at the forefront of enterprise and entrepreneurship. We represent higher education and run programmes in the UK and internationally to embed entrepreneurial practice.

Sponsoring: Outstanding Support for Students

With the mission of increasing life chances, Studiosity provides online, on-demand study support from a real person; 24/7, 365 days a year. We work in partnership with education institutions to integrate scalable, high-quality individualised feedback for all students, supported by our global network of Specialists. In addition to working with 75% of Australian HEIs, we currently work with 16 partners in the UK and Ireland to provide access to approximately two million students. We work with each relationship to provide full data transparency regarding student interactions and help identify focus areas to improve wellbeing, experience, learning outcomes and retention.

Sponsoring: Outstanding Technician of the Year

The Technician Commitment aims to ensure visibility, recognition, career development and sustainability for technicians working in higher education and research, across all disciplines. Since its inception in 2017, over 50% of UK universities and a number of world-leading institutions have signed up to transform the way they support their technical staff.