 Now on the way to Birmingham City University extra mile awards. There's a few people up for nominations, so good luck to everybody. We're going to smash it, it's going to be amazing. And an outstanding nurse leader and then a future clinical leader. Highly commended for inspirational student of the year is... I'm wrong. No. ...to present Debbie Brennan. Yeah! I achieved my industry and I came back into teaching to actually get students to become the best marketeers and to actually create the best people that come from BCU. So I love BCU and I love the students. I'm so honoured. Thank you. APPLAUSE I did an upgrade on venues. The Enterprising Students of the Year Award is an opportunity to recognise the students that have entered entrepreneurial achievement. Putting the skills from their degree to work by setting their own business wherever Enterprising. Here are the findings. Highly commended as an Enterprising student of the year is... ...Darrell Blake. Students' confidence is faltering and they need someone to make them believe in themselves. Or if they need a chance to cry on, their personal teacher is the person they've turned to. Here are our finalists. Publishing journals and chapters published in books have given talks at conferences or had their work featured in the media. Here are some of the finalists. One of the researchers of the year is... ...Professor John Mercer. For Bar to Design Media, since the faculty seems to fall behind in these awards and also to thank the Dean of the faculty, Professor David Roberts, who's stepping down at the Business School of English. Peter Cameron from the Press Office who's managed to make English literature. DC can keep research at the very top of the university's agenda, but also research that matters to the public and it's relevant. Thank you so much. Good evening. Our student representatives are an important link between the university students and staff. The winner of this award will be friendly and approachable and provide valuable advice and support to their fellow students. Here are the finalists. The student representative is... I'm very interested in this award. It's a fire. And obviously I would like to say thanks to all the people, especially my school reps team, Deborah and my other colleagues of the school reps and also my societal members of the kind of societies and also the south side of awkward in all this, yes. So thanks a lot for this award. How good are these guys over here on the left-hand side? OK, so brilliant volunteers make a huge impact on university life. No matter what the setting, the winner of this award will be using their energy commitment and team working skills to make a difference. So here are the finalists. Give these guys a round of applause. The highly commended student volunteer is... Shannon Barnard. First these great teams. Groups of staff and students working to organise events. One project and to make a positive difference to life at Birmingham City University. Here are the finalists. The highly commended team of the year is... Yes, thank you for having a vote for us. Thank you to our boss Lee's who continues to be an amazing fan of support for us all. Thank you to our programme team and our schools who are again our massive supporters. I'd also like to thank you to the students because they are the ones who we're here for and they are the ones who we do this job for. Thank you. And the winner of the team of the year award is... ..the CV induction that happened to me. Thank you very much. We didn't think we had any chance of winning, so I don't have anything to say. So there is more of the team but unfortunately they couldn't make it here tonight. There's two more. What I didn't say also, most of these guys here are also placement students apart from Liam on the end. So that makes it even better. Thank you very much for having voted for us and hopefully we'll get more notice next year. Let's do it again. So... Thank you. I think before I say something, it's a very personal story. It's about what happened during induction talks. Lucky came up to myself and said, just wait, I'm going to give induction talks to about 250 students. I'm really nervous. Can you come with me? And I'm so proud that she today hosted this. Well done, Lucky. It's so great. Especially congratulations to all the winners and congratulations to all the finalists. You've done some fantastic work and that's the reason why we are here to celebrate. And so before I say the winner of Vice Chancellor and Student President's Board, as you would have heard about the person already, the person has not only helped the student, the society within the student's union or various groups within the university, plus she's helped the groups which are out of the university and the extra mile is, she has set up her own charity and which is amazing and I'm so proud to present the Vice Chancellor and Student Union President Award. This is a problem. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. It's just to, if people are in the first steps of mental health, to try and help going to the doctors and stuff like that. So if I'm going to make a speech, I might get a very good healing and I really need some support at the moment because it's just in the first ages. So yeah, you can go on and have a look at that. But yeah, thank you guys. Thank you so much. Imagine how tough this was for the judges looking at the main awards. But how can you judge between inspirational lecturers, outstanding researchers, brilliant personal tutors, great teams of staff, all the people that we've had represented here this evening, it really is almost an impossible choice. And I guess what for both Jars and I, this came down to was the idea of the extra mile and within the university, we're a huge university, we have a huge portfolio, we have 24,000 students and the sad reality of life in any complex organisation is that sometimes stuff goes wrong and where we stand up, where our values show, where our student focus shows is how we respond to that challenge. And too often it's really easy, it's easy at my end of things as well. Point the finger and go, somebody else is full, nothing we can do, I'm sorry people, I'm not going to have a brilliant experience, but frankly it was nothing to do with me. And the reason that Jars and I wanted to give the award in the way that we did was it recognised an extra mile spirit that said something's gone wrong, we're going to put it right. Having put it right, put it right in such an astonishingly several ways, representing not just their own time but a huge amount of hard work, that it's become something that actually becomes a part of our portfolio, that becomes a part of our way that we do things. So I'd like a drum roll. Last part of the evening I promise, but I'd like to give the award to the CB Level 4 induction tactic. It's a safety-making clue though, I'm not expecting this. I think we all came to the free-fee-drift and it's not going to work. What's the speech that doesn't quite get far out? Thank you very much for everybody who voted for us. I'd like to say that there's loads of people involved, this is just some recording tonight, but there were hundreds of people involved. There was nearly 700 students you had to deal with. 400 students at very short notice, two weeks notice with no rooms or anything. So thank you for everybody who helped out. Thank you very much. Thank you all for being a part of this year's extra mile awards. It's been a pleasure evening so far. I'm sure you're going to join me in a round-up course for all of tonight's finalists and winners. I'd like to give a personal shout-out to the extra mile awards team. Ysbytyn Cymru, Lisa Berger, Laura Dudley, Philip Cillingham, Samuel Grant and also Michael Gale, hiding behind the doors all day. Can we give them a big one? It's possible and blessed to have been able to host this event. I'll go back to my course, unfortunately. I'll go back to being a second year student because I know back to the School of English, so shout-out to the School of English everyone. But I finished my end of term at the end of June and I just had to say it's been a massive great opportunity to be your vice-president. So Food and Dream is now available outside so please go on and enjoy yourselves. And also, I ask that all of tonight's winners and highly commended nominees along with our award presenters join me here on stage to make a few part of the course. Thank you everyone.