Share our successes with updated email signatures

With our recent rankings successes and awards to celebrate, we’ve updated our collection of email signature banners to help you share the good news.

Banners with our latest major rankings performance and awards can be downloaded from our staff communications channels webpages. Including one in your email signature is a great way to share with our wider networks news that helps to boost our reputation and standing.

It’s a small action for each of us to take, but collectively it helps to send a signal to the outside world about the kind of institution we are, and where we want to be.

This is the latest simple reputation-boosting action we are sharing over the next few weeks, which all of us can take and that can lead to benefits such as improved university rankings and awards.

The updated banners reflect and link to more information on some of our recent successes, including:

• being named Sustainable University of the Year by the Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025.
• topping the People and Planet University League 2023/24.
• our joint 28^th placing worldwide in the Times Higher Education Global Impact rankings.
• our 14^th Green Flag Award in a row for Whiteknights campus.

There are also signatures showing our impact in the community and with NHS partners, our Teaching Excellence Framework Silver award and directing people in our community to find the support that they need. 

If you are already using one of our banner images, please check that you’re not using an out-of-date version.

How to update your signatures

1. Download the Word document on the staff communications channels page to view the list of signature images.
2. Right click the image you want and select ‘Copy’.
3. Paste the image into your email signature in Outlook and click ‘Save’. See Microsoft’s guide to creating Outlook email signatures for more assistance.
4. The image will now show at the bottom of your new emails when this signature is selected.

Please note: the hyperlink and alt text will be carried across when copying and pasting directly from the Word document. However, these will need to be added manually in Signatures if using the New Outlook app.