The Times Higher Education Awards 2015 are now open for entry.

To enter for an award, email Tim Utton, Deputy Director of Communications, with a 150-word submission outline by Thursday 28 May for consideration. You can preview categories and criteria on The Times Higher Education Awards website now to help put together your entry.

This year’s categories are:

• The Lord Dearing Lifetime Achievement Award
• Outstanding Employer Engagement Initiative
• Excellence and Innovation in the Arts
• Outstanding Contribution to Leadership Development
• Widening Participation or Outreach Initiative of the Year
• Most Innovative Teacher of the Year
• Outstanding Contribution to Innovation and Technology
• Outstanding International Student Strategy
• Outstanding Digital Innovation in Teaching or Research
• Outstanding Support for Early Career Researchers
• Outstanding Contribution to the Local Community
• Research Project of the Year
• Business School of the Year
• Outstanding Support for Students
• International Collaboration of the Year
• Most Improved Student Experience
• Entrepreneurial University of the Year
• University of the Year

Winners will be announced at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on Thursday 26 November 2015. Last year, The University of Nottingham won Research Project of the Year, as scientists from the School of Medicine identified a previously undetected layer of the cornea.

Find out more and browse the award entry requirements at www.the-awards.co.uk

Image caption: winners from The Times Higher Education Awards 2014, Dr Simon Kerridge, Chair of the Board of Directors ARAM (right) presents Professor Dua with his award (centre) alongside Jack Dee on the left, Dr Dalia Said (UoN) second from left, and Dr Lana Faraj (UoN) second from right.