The Academic Award is bestowed upon individuals in recognition of an outstanding contribution to academic knowledge or practice. Podiatrists nominated for this award may be employed within the academic community as academics, clinical academics or clinical educators.

The award may be conferred upon early-career academics and researchers as well as mid-career academics and established academic leaders and will be granted in recognition of a member’s outstanding contribution to academic knowledge, education and/or research excellence.

Eligibility:

• Member/fellow of the College of Podiatry
• Academic
• Clinical academic
• Clinical educator
• Early career researcher
• Early career academic

Awarded for:

• Outstanding contribution to academic knowledge, education or research
• Outstanding clinical teaching
• Outstanding research achievement

This award is conferred upon an individual podiatrist who has demonstrated excellence throughout his or her professional career. The award will be conferred upon an individual who has made a significant and sustained impact in improving the quality of life of service users or who has excelled at and surpassed the responsibilities and requirements of his or her professional/clinical role. In each case, the awardee should have demonstrated outstanding service over a sustained period of time. The award may also be conferred upon an individual who has provided consistent, sustained and effective leadership at branch or regional level throughout the United Kingdom.

Eligibility:

• Member / Fellow of the College of Podiatry including a Member of Council

Awarded for:

• Improving quality of life for service users
• Outstanding clinical care or professional leadership
• Outstanding branch service
• Outstanding regional service

The Diamond award is the highest award within the College of Podiatry. It is awarded to individuals who can demonstrate substantial, outstanding and exemplary contribution to the profession of podiatry over a sustained period of time. It is conferred upon individuals, who have given outstanding and exemplary service to the advancement of podiatry and are recognised as eminent or pre-eminent in a given field of professional practice or public service at national or international level. At any one time, there must not be more than 25 living recipients of the Diamond Award.

Eligibility:

• Any individual who has made a significant, sustained impact on, or exemplary contribution to, support or advancement of the profession of podiatry.
• Only 25 living recipients permitted at any time.

Awarded for:

• Substantial and exemplary contribution to the profession of podiatry over a sustained period of time
• Outstanding service to the podiatry profession
• Recognised as eminent or pre-eminent in a given field of professional practice or public service at national or international level.

The College of Podiatry Innovation Award may be conferred upon an individual, a company or an organisation. The recipient of the award must be able to evidence innovation in the design of a product or service which demonstrably constitutes an advance in professional practice. The award may be made in recognition of a pioneering IT or digital project, an innovative clinical intervention or service design, an original teaching methodology or a pioneering research project which demonstrates innovation at its core.

Eligibility

• An individual member/fellow of the College or
• A commercial company contributing to the advancement of the profession of podiatry
• An NHS Department which has contributed to the advancement of the profession
• A university Faculty or department which has contributed to the advancement of the profession
• A private practice which has contributed to the advancement of the profession.

Awarded for:

• Development of a new and innovative podiatric clinical intervention or service design which constitutes and advance in professional practice
• Pioneering IT or digital podiatric infrastructure
• Development of an original teaching methodology
• Pioneering research project centred around innovation in practice.

This award may be conferred upon any individual member or fellow of the College of Podiatry, of any age or duration of membership, who has undertaken significant voluntary work in the provision of podiatric services at local, national or international level. Recipients must have demonstrated extraordinary and exceptional commitment to the provision of voluntary service in podiatry.

Eligibility:

• Member/fellow of the College
• Significant voluntary service in podiatry.

Awarded for:

• Sustained exceptional voluntary work in the provision of podiatry services at local, national or international level
• Demonstrable extraordinary and exceptional commitment to voluntary service in podiatry

This award has been established in honour of the late President of the College of Podiatry, The Rt Hon Lord Morris of Manchester AO QSO, who died in 2012. The award reflects Lord Morris’s strong social conscience and the difference he made to the lives of ordinary, disadvantaged people. Lord Morris was a renowned campaigner and pioneer on behalf of the disabled. In 1970 his work led to the first disability rights legislation entitled “The Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act” which sought to give people with disabilities equal opportunities in Society and was the world’s first such legislation. Alf Morris was appointed Minister for the Disabled in 1974 and elevated to the Peerage in 1997.

The award is conferred upon members, fellows, or podiatry service teams who have made an exceptional, altruistic, personal or team contribution to the podiatric care of disadvantaged individuals or communities in the United Kingdom or abroad. This may include service to those with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, or in support of military veterans, reflecting the legislative and policy achievements in these areas made by Lord Morris.

Eligibility:

• Member/ fellow of the College

Awarded for:

• Exceptional, altruistic, personal or team contribution to the podiatric care of disadvantaged individuals or communities within the United Kingdom or abroad
• Service to those with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, or in support of military veterans, reflecting the legislative and policy achievements of Lord Morris.

The College of Podiatry recognises a small group of individuals as honorary fellows. This category of fellowship is conferred by the College upon individuals who would not normally qualify for fellowship of the organisation. Honorary fellowship is bestowed upon individuals who have made a substantive and significant contribution to the advancement of the podiatric profession in any of the fields of clinical practice, education, service management or research.

Eligibility:

• Non-members/fellows of the College

Awarded for:

Sustained contribution to the advancement of the podiatric profession in one or more of the following areas:

• Clinical practice
• Education
• Service management
• Research

This is a unique award for the 2021 period only, to honour those podiatrists (or practice teams) who have assumed a role during the COVID 19 crisis in support of delivering healthcare, or have contributed in other ways, at risk to themselves, in order to support the national effort in managing the crisis.

The award may extend to private practitioners, student volunteers or NHS workers who have continued to work in a frontline capacity, or who have contributed to the national effort in some other identifiable and tangible way that merits recognition. There should be three categories of award: local, regional, and national, to reflect the relative significance and contribution made by each individual or practice.

• The local award: this will be granted in recognition of any significant local influence on practice, innovation in changing practice, or in improving lives during the COVID 19 crisis
  
  
• The regional award: this will be granted for activities which effect change that impacts upon a broader group of actors, for example in allied health professions leadership, during the COVID 19 crisis
  
  
• The national award: this will be granted in recognition of activities or contributions at a national level in support of the national effort in managing the crisis.

One awardee will be successful from each area category e.g. regional, national and local (a total of three will therefore be selected for this award).