Provost Awards celebrate NCL’s impact as Lucie Armstrong wins Social Value Award

Provost Awards Highlight NCL’s impact as six staff nominated for social value recognition

Access and Progression Academic Leader Lucie Armstrong was honoured for her work with survivors of domestic abuse at the 2025 North Lanarkshire Provost Awards on Friday. 

Provost Kenneth Duffy said he had been moved to create the new award, 'because of the importance of social value in demonstrating the wider benefits to society that an institution like NCL generates'.

New College Lanarkshire's six social Value Champions from 2025, Lucie Armstrong, Levi White, John O’Hara, Pamela Lippiatt, Donna Crolly and Mia McGregor were the six nominees for the award. Provost Duffy said they represent the best of a College 'that is changing lives across Lanarkshire every single day. You're undervalued but we want to thank you for everything you do.

He added that: 'all six nominees are winners in my eyes but Lucie Armstrong is the winner of the Social Value award.' 

Lucie was recognised for her instrumental role in developing the Women’s Aid programme across Cumbernauld and Coatbridge campuses. This created an educational pathway for victims of domestic abuse.

This has been a transformational course, one of the women on it explained. She said: “I think we’d all lost ourselves, who we were, and this has helped us find ourselves again.”