The Roaries 2026, winners announced...

On Friday 27th March, we hosted our annual awards ceremony for Reps and Societies. We'd like to thank all the students who attended, we hope you had a fantastic evening. In case you missed it, here are your finalists and winners this year:

Course Rep of the Year

This award celebrates a Course Rep who has shown dedication to ensuring the voices of their classmates are raised through good communication with University and Students’ Union staff, and coordinating effectively with their Lead Rep.

Jennifer Soran 🏅

Louise Cameron

Mahomed Alimahomed

Mifzal Kokab

Nimra Younis

 

Lead Rep of the Year

This award celebrates a Lead Rep who has demonstrated a strong commitment to resolving the issues facing students in their department, forging robust working relationships with Students’ Union and University staff, and delivering quality feedback to improve teaching across the University.

Gia Dhami

Katy Goodwin 🏅

Oghenefegor Edidhala

 

PGR Rep of the Year

This award celebrates a postgraduate representative who has shown great strides in showcasing the voice of postgraduate students, creating a positive atmosphere by creating events and community for their peers.

Awais Javed

Shameela Yoosuf Ali

Virina Gabriel 🏅

 

Feedback Wizards

Our feedback wizards are our reps that have collected the most feedback on our feedback hub! You can either stay seated or stand up at your table.

Dominika Maliszczak 🏅

Gia Dhami 🏅

Katy Goodwin 🏅

Emily Turner 🏅

Iman Qazi 🏅

 

Rep Teamwork Award

This award celebrates two or more Rep's who have worked together to achieve something great or worked to positively to improve the experience of their students.

Thomas Cowood and Emily Turner

Helen Parmenter, Louise Cameron, Emily Turner and Thomas Cowood 🏅

Katy Goodwin, Gia Dhami and Sedrat Mohamed

Malak ElMufty, Ella Luisa Marthinsen, Anton Das and Muhamed Taiyeb

Gia Dhami, Lukundo Siwila and Mifzal Kokab

 

The Keenest Beans

This is to recognise our reps who are the first to volunteer themselves to help out and are always asking us questions to better themselves as reps.

Hadia Noor 🏅

Thembani Mpofu 🏅

Iqra Sharif 🏅

Laiba Zulfiqar 🏅

Thor-Michel Dymond 🏅

 

Rookie Rep Award

This award highlights the achievements of a rep that has begun their journey this academic year. These reps have made such an impact in such a short time.

Adam Khattab

Dominika Maliszczak

Emily Turner

Gurlaal Nijjer

Thomas Cowood 🏅

 

Veteran Rep Award

This award showcases the achievements of a rep that has been in post for over 12 months! These reps have used their experience in their role to amplify student voice during their time.

Gia Dhami 🏅

Katy Goodwin

Safwaan Mukith

 

Outstanding Contribution

This rep has been determined and driven throughout this academic year and deserves to be recognised for their contribution to the rep system and their fellow reps.

Dominika Maliszczak 🏅

 

Best New Society

This award celebrates a Society established this Academic Year who have successfully engaged with new members, planned and hosted relevant events and activities for their members, and developed a strong relationship with the Students’ Union.

Business Society 🏅

HerSpace

School of Art Society

 

Community Builders

This is for our societies who have built up the largest community within their society category. Fostering togetherness and creating a welcoming space for students on campus.

BCU Racing 🏅

Cheerleading 🏅

Law and Mooting 🏅

Islamic Society 🏅

LGBTQ+ Society 🏅

 

Committee Member of the Year

This award is for a Committee Member who has excelled as part of the society this year. They will have been a keystone for their society, supporting their fellow committee to produce amazing events and activities for their members.

Hassan Faysal from BCU Gaming

Mollie Deakin from Cheerleading

Myfanwy Hughes from SALTSoc 🏅

 

Most Charitable Society

This is an award for the society that has raised the most amount of money for a charity this academic year

Cheerleading, £2540 🥇

Paramedic Society, £1865🥈

Islamic Society, £1052🥉

 

Society Member of the Year

The Society member of the year is a member whose positivity and support has been invaluable to the society committee and their fellow members. They bring a great deal of student voice to the society and always bring their best selves, week after week.

Hamish Dobson-Smyth from Cyber Soc

Isaac Brookes from Anime and Manga 🏅

Rachel Weir from Para Soc

 

Collab Champions

These are societies that have done amazing collaborations with other BCUSU societies as well as societies from other universities.

Anime and Manga 🏅

BCU Gaming 🏅

ParaSoc, MidSoc, SALTSoc, and Future Nurses 🏅

Filipino Society 🏅

Sustainability Society 🏅

 

Society Event of the Year

BCU Gaming and Anime & Manga for their Cosplay Competition

Sustainability and Architectural Technology for their Built Environment Debate

Paramedic Society for their CPR Marathon 🏅

 

Outstanding Achievement

This award is a special shoutout to a society who has gone above and beyond this year. This society has consistently put on great events for their members, created an innate sense of community and have done some amazing collaborations throughout.

HerSpace 🏅

 

Society of the Year

This society has created a safe environment for its members and fostered a sense of inclusion within their group. They have done us proud with their events, showed commitment with their achievements.

BCU Gaming

Cheerleading 🏅

Filipino Society

LGBTQ+ Society

Paramedic Society

 

BCUSU Superstars

Awarded to Reps and Societies for completing tasks throughout the year.

Student Rep:

 

Bronze Student Rep Superstars	Silver Student Rep Superstars
Hadia Noor 🥉 Mifzal Kokab 🥉	Thomas Cowood 🥈

 

Gold Student Rep Superstars
Dominika Maliszczak 🥇 Emily Turner 🥇 Gia Dhami 🥇 Katy Goodwin 🥇 Iman Qazi 🥇

 

Society:

 

Bronze Society Superstars
Accounting Society 🥉 Afro-Caribbean Society (ACS) 🥉 Ahlulbayt Islamic Society 🥉 BCU Racing 🥉 Bengali Society 🥉 Crafty Bitches 🥉 Filipino Society 🥉	First Love 🥉 Islamic Society 🥉 Kharis on Campus 🥉 Navigators Christian Society 🥉 Pole Fitness 🥉 Scratch Radio 🥉 Sikh Society 🥉

 

Silver Society Superstars	Gold Society Superstars
Burlesque 🥈 Cyber Security Society 🥈 Law and Mooting Society 🥈 LGBTQ+ Society 🥈 Parasoc 🥈 SALTSoc (Speech & Language Therapy) 🥈 Table Top Gaming 🥈	Anime & Manga 🥇 BCU Gaming 🥇 HerSpace 🥇 Sustainability Society 🥇