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Choosing the 18 winners from the shortlisted entries has been extremely difficult and they can rightly be proud of their success: each represents excellence in their field and we congratulate them all.

A special mention must go to our University of the Year for 2008, the University of Leicester, for being third time lucky, having been nominated previously in 2005 and 2006, as well as the very worthy recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award, Peter Hennessy, Attlee professor of contemporary British history at Queen Mary, University of London. Professor Philip Ogden, acting principal of Queen Mary, University of London, said: ¡°This award is recognition of Peter Hennessy¡¯s outstanding and unique achievement in bringing Whitehall and academia together to their mutual benefit over a period of many years. Only he could do this. Queen Mary is hugely proud of Peter and his colleagues in the Mile End Group and its parent organisation, the Mile End Institute (for the Study of Government, Intelligence and Society).¡±

We would like to thank all our sponsors, the Judges and everyone involved in making the Times Higher Education Awards 2008 a fitting tribute to the very best of UK academe.

Ann Mroz
Editor
Times Higher Education

THE Awards 2008 winners

• Excellence and Innovation in the Arts
  Silver Sounds
  Queen¡¯s University Belfast
• Widening Participation Initiative of the Year
  Preparation for higher education
  Birkbeck, University of London
• Research Project of the Year
  Climate-system tipping elements
  University of East Anglia
• Outstanding Support for Students with Disabilities
  Support services for students with learning differences and for those with mental-health problems
  Brunel University
• Outstanding ICT Initiative
  Integrating Web 2.0 technologies into education
  University of Westminster
• Outstanding Student Financial Support Package
  Regional participation scholarship for state-school students in Oxfordshire
  Oxford Brookes University
• Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community
  Community University Partnership Programme
  University of Brighton
• Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development
  Food metres
  Harper Adams University College
• Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology
  Accelerated Carbonation Technology
  University of Greenwich
• Outstanding Support for Early Careers Researchers
  Finish Up, Move On
  Imperial College London
• Marketing Initiative of the Year
  Clubcard points
  The Open University
• Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development
  Leadership Development Programme
  Coventry University
• Outstanding Employer Engagement Initiative
  Universities Continuing Professional Development Network
  University of York
• Entrepreneurial University of the Year
  Innovation Park
  University of Nottingham
• Outstanding Support for Overseas Students
  Glasgow Caledonian University
• Best Student Experience
  Loughborough University
• University of the Year
  University of Leicester
• Lifetime Achievement
  Peter Hennessy