Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has won Outstanding Estates Team at the Times Higher Education Awards.
The Times Higher Education (THE) Awards – dubbed the “Oscars of higher education” – celebrate the very best from UK universities in education, research and beyond.
This year’s awards recognise achievements from the 23-24 academic year, which marked LSTM’s 125th anniversary and tenth year as an independent HEI.
Winners were announced at a special awards ceremony in Edinburgh on Thursday.
Professor David Lalloo, Vice-Chancellor of LSTM, said: “Congratulations to our fantastic Estates team, who have been rightly recognised for their outstanding achievements in overseeing a huge, complex campus redevelopment programme here in Liverpool and supporting the delivery of the state-of-the-art CREATOR building in Malawi that will transform research and education in the region.
“All of this was achieved by a team of just ten, highlighting the exceptional commitment and skill of everyone in the team.”
The Estates team's success follows on from last year's THE Awards, when the REDRESS project won International Collaboration of the Year. LSTM were also shortlisted this year for the inaugural Specialist Institution of the Year Award.
Outstanding Estates Team
Judges were impressed by LSTM’s Estates team’s work in being “responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of specialist faculties that handle some of the world’s most infectious pathogens, often working on live, operational sites.”
They were commended for their impressive delivery of four major capital projects worth almost £27m, including: the restoration of the historic Mary Kingsley Building; the creation of the specialist Human Challenge Facility; the completion of an innovative new teaching space at Pembroke House; and the construction of the state-of-the-art medical training and research CREATOR facility in Malawi.
This dedicated team worked between Liverpool and Africa, where they also supported pioneering work to appoint women to key architecture, engineering and project management roles in the CREATOR building project at MLW.
As a result of these projects, judges noted, LSTM’s estate expanded by 22 per cent, with all the growth delivered by a team of only ten people.
Chris Havergal, THE’s editor, said: “The winning entries stand as a reminder that university staff continue to excel across teaching, research and professional services, day in, day out.
“This consistently high performance can often go overlooked amid a challenging environment in which institutions’ licence to operate is questioned seemingly daily – making it all the more important to salute such achievements.
“We would like to extend our sincere congratulations to all those who made the shortlists – and, of course, to our winners.”