Salford team achieves 16 shortlisted nominations at national awards

The awards recognise the very best nursing and midwifery education providers and learners across the UK. This year has seen the University, which is one of the largest providers of nursing and midwifery undergraduate education in the north, shortlisted in an exceptionally high number of categories, after breaking records last year with an incredible 20 nominations shortlisted.

Among the 10 categories where the University has been recognised is the prestigious “Nursing Associate Training Programme Provider of the Year”, which the team won last year. The University of Salford’s course is one of the most popular in the north and gets consistently high ratings in the National Student Survey (NSS).

This year has also seen incredible success for our students, with one category, ‘Student Innovation in Practice’ seeing Salford students make up four of the nine shortlisted nominations.

The full list of shortlisted entries from the University is as follows:

• University Educator of the Year – Joshi Prabhu
• Nursing Associate Training Programme Provider of the Year (pre-registration) – Nursing Associate programme team
• Teaching Innovation of the Year: Curriculum – Decolonising the Nursing Curriculum
• Teaching Innovation of the Year: Digital – Embedding future-ready digital skills into pre-registration nursing education
• Mary Seacole Award for Outstanding Contribution to Diversity and Inclusion – two Salford students shortlisted:
   
  • Melissa Moyo 
  • Oluchi Okoroafor 
• Most Inspirational Student Nurse of the Year – Oluchi Okoroafor 
• Outstanding Contribution to Student Affairs – two students shortlisted:
   
  • Melissa Moyo 
  • Oluchi Okoroafor 
• Student Innovation in Practice – four of the nine students shortlisted in this category are from the University of Salford:
   
  • Sabrina Elsa Feughouo
  • Matthew Frohock
  • Melissa Moyo
  • Oluchi Okoroafor
• Student Nursing Associate of the Year – Ikechukwu Onyenaobia
• Student Nurse of the Year: Adult – Oluchi Okoroafor 

Karen Heggs, Director of Nursing and Midwifery, said she was delighted to see the hard work and dedication of the entire directorate team recognised.

“To see such a high number of shortlisted nominations for a second year is really incredible. Our wonderful students and colleagues truly do go above and beyond, and this is reflected in the breadth of nominations, from individual student categories to teaching innovation.

“Thanks to everyone for their hard work and commitment, and best of luck to all our shortlisted nominees!”

You can see the full shortlist here. Award winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on Friday 24 April 2026.

Find out more about studying Nursing and Midwifery at Salford here.