A project involving students as co-creators to upgrade the University of Strathclyde’s real-time, on-the-go mobile ‘app’ has been shortlisted in the UCISA Awards 2025.

The StrathApp Student Co-creation Development Model is a finalist in the Transformation category of the awards, organised by the member-led professional body for digital practitioners in education.

StrathApp enables students to access their timetables and assessment results, enter the library with a digital student card, navigate the campus and receive support services from their mobile devices.

“We recognise that our students have a clearer understanding of their day-to-day information needs than anyone, so we have consciously put them at the heart of an iterative approach to developing our award-winning StrathApp,” Donna Brawley, collaboration services manager in the Information Services Directorate, said.

“By embedding student placements within the development process, we enable direct collaboration and co-creation with our student users. This approach is both innovative and inspiring for staff and students alike, ensuring we deliver a service that is genuinely ‘For Students, By Students.’

“Being shortlisted for the UCISA Transformation Award is fantastic recognition of our commitment to student-led digital innovation at Strathclyde.”

The UCISA Transformation Award celebrates digital initiatives that have delivered significant benefits across higher education institutions.

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Strathclyde is nominated alongside Bath Spa University, Heriot-Watt University, Nottingham Trent University, and the University of Chester, with the winners to be announced at the UCISA 25 Leadership Conference Awards Dinner on 19 March 2025.

DIGIT recently covered the University of Strathclyde for a new £1 million research project to digitise drug development and transform medicines regulation.

The university also recently won £675,000 of funding for a new neurotechnology centre, with the aim of revolutionising the study of neuro circuits.