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Keele Excellence Awards in Learning and Teaching 2012-13

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The call for applications for a Keele Excellence Award are now open! Please see below for further information.

Nominate

Nominations now closed!

Any staff who teach, supervise or support learning can be nominated or apply for a Keele Award for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, individually or as a teaching team. The four annual awards take the form of certificates awarded at a Graduation Ceremony and a sum of £1,000.

The scheme is run by the Learning and Professional Development Centre in collaboration with Keele Students Union and the Keele Postgraduate Association.

This year, nominations have reached a record breaking number of over 400 for over 200 staff.

 

Criteria

The criteria for the Keele Excellence Awards 2012-13 are:

  1. An ability to influence learners* positively, to inspire them and to enable them to achieve their goals or intended learning outcomes;
  2. An ability to influence and inspire their colleagues (at Keele or, ideally, more widely) in their teaching, learning and assessment practice, by example and/or through the dissemination of good practice;
  3. An ability to demonstrate a reflective and informed approach to teaching and/or the support of learning.

*Note: Learners includes any Keele students and staff.

Nominees

This year, a record number of nominations have been received (441) which recognised the individual and team efforts of the below 209 teaching staff:

Barbara Introwicz

Carole Watkins

Dr Russell Crawford

Dr Alan Harper

Dr Ruth Kinston

Dr David Maxton

Dr Patrick Naish

Dr Saijit Shetty

Dr Laura Young

Claire Rushton

Dr Anthony Curtis

Dr Alan Richardson

Professor Joe Andrew

Dr Nicholas Bentley

Aiden Clarkson

Professor Oliver Harris

Dr James Peacock

Joseph Stretch

Fiona Tusk

Professor Emma Bell

Dr Jack Cao

Dr Lindsay Hamilton

Stephen Hicks

Dr Treasa Kearney

Dr Anita Mangan

Dr Caroline Miller

Dr Teresa Oultram

Dr Emma Surman

Professor Ray Cocks

Professor Michael Haley

Dr Lara McMurtry

Dr Eliza Varney

Graeme Easdown

Dr Mo Ray

Dr Denise Wolstenholme

Dr Mary Corcoran

Dr Evi Girling

Dr Anthony Kearon

Dr Julie Trebilcock

Dr Philip Catney

Dr Jon Herbert

Dr Barry Ryan

Professor John Vogler

Dr David Bedford

Dr Theocharis Kyriacou

Dr Ewan Russell

Dr Srabasti Chakravorty

Dr Sheila Hope

Dr Mirna Maarabouni

Patricia Procter

Dr David Watson

Lois De Cruz

Dr James Grange

Jane Johnson

Shona Neal

Professor Kenneth Rotenberg

Dr Richard Stephens

Dr Mark Trueman

Dr Nigel Cassidy

Dr Michael Edwards

Dr Ralf Gertisser

Dr Robert Jackosn

Dr Deirdre McKay

Dr Jamie Pringle

Professor Peter Styles

Dr Richard Waller

Michele Bourne

Barbara Western

Russell Clark

Martina Wallner

Pam Smith

Dr Sarah Aynsley

Sian Davies

Dr Paul Horrocks

Dr Menandros Lagopoulos

Dr Stuart McBain

Dr Simon Nightingale

Bruce Summers

Michael Gibbs

Kim Sargeant

Dr Jihong Han

Professor William Farrell

Dr Ian Atherton

Clifford Bradbury

Professor Malcolm Crook

Dr Timothy Lustig

Dr Nicholas Reyland

Dr Kelcey Swain

Dr Juliet Yates

Dr Matthew Brannan

Dr Patricia Dawson

Akrum Ekara Helfaya

Nia Hughes

Professor Matthias Klaes

Dr Hala Mansour

Dr Helen Oakes

Dr Elizabeth Parsons

Dr Carola Weissmeyer

Professor Fiona Cownie

Dr Tsachi Keren-Paz

Sotirios Santatzoglou

Erica Clifford

Dr John Howlett

Robert Stannard

Ilia Xypolia

Professor William Dixon

Dr Clare Griffiths

Professor Ronnie Lippens

Dr Sorin Baiasu

Dr Giuseppina D'Oro

Dr Sherilyn MacGregor

Naveed Sheikh

Dr Matthew Wyman

Dr John Butcher

Stephen Linkman

Dr Paul Truman

Dr Peter Chevins

David Hulse

Dr David Mazzochi-Jones

Dr Mark Skidmore

Hilary Cambell

Emee Vida Estacio

Dr John Hegarty

Dr Alexandra Kent

Dr Helena Priest

Sarah Rose

Dr Sally Sargeant

Mairead Walsh

Amy Cowles

Dr Stuart Egan

Dr Laura Hancock

Dr Graeme Jones

Dr Matthew O'Brien

Dr Zoe Robinson

Dr Katie Szkornik

Dr Joanna Wright

Catherine Gillions

Dr Bernard Zarychta

Beverley Dickinson

Timothy Hinchcliffe

Dr Jacqueline Waterfield

Dr Marco Burattin

Dr Viswanthan Geetha

Dr Catriona Kelly

Dr Penelope List

Dr Andrew Morris

Dr Ranjan Sanyal

George Varughese

Catherine Hill

Karen Wild

Dr Katie Maddock

Professor David Amigoni

Michael Bell

Dr Anthony Carrigan

Dr Diega Garro

Dr Lucy Munro

Dr Nicholas Seager

Dr Alannah Tomkins

Dr Alena Audzeyeva

Professor Robin Balden-Hovell

Trevor De Middelaer

Dr Stephen French

Philip Johnson

Aikaterini Koskina

Dr Kim Mather

James O'Neill

Dr Colin Rigby

Haoyong Zhou

Mark Davys

Dr Jane Krishnadas

Professor Michael Thomson

Andrew Connell

Alison Parr

Diane Swift

Dr Karl Bohanan

Dr Mark Featherstone

Dr James Hardie-Bick

Dr Jane Parish

Dr Elisabeth Carter

Professor Timothy Doyle

Dr Helen Parr

Dr James Tartaglia

Katherine McGettigan

Dr Charles Day

Dr Martyn Parker

Raymond Turner

Dr David Furness

Dr William Kirk

Dr Catherine Merrick

Dr Peter Thomas

Sally Chisholm

Dr Claire Fox

Dr Jane Hunt

Dr Alexandra Lamont

Dr Margaret Robson

Dr Sue Sherman

Dr Chris Stiff

Dr Craig Adam

Dr Falko Drijfhout

Professor Christopher Exley

Dr Katherine Haxton

Dr Peter Knight

Dr Joana Oliveira

Dr Ian Stimpson

Dr David Thompson

Dr Vladimir Zholobenko

Lisa Mead

Robin Bell

Emily Ouyang

Apply

Call for applications now open!

Applicants are asked to submit:

Part 1- a 3000 word case for excellence;

Part 2- a two page summary record of their teaching.

Part 1 The case for excellence needs to be made in no more than 3000 words and be presented in 12 point text, sans-serif font, on numbered pages with the word length clearly stated on the first page. It needs to address the three criteria. In the case of a team application, use one statement per application, not one per person. Evidence for criterion 1 may include reference to (a) student nomination(s), if available. Evidence for criterion 2 may include a statement of support from one colleague, at Keele or elsewhere, or from a line manager. It might include evidence of team work and the dissemination of good practice.

Part 2 comprises is a summary of the applicant's track record(s) in teaching and/or the support of learning. It must not exceed two sides of A4 per person (12 point text, sans-serif font). The summary should include the range of activity, teaching experience and any institutional and national roles in relation to learning and teaching.

Staff who are in ‘early career’ in respect of teaching are encouraged to apply for a separate category of Early Career award(s). Early Career here means up to and including 5 years of teaching in HE (full time or part time). The five years may include any years of teaching as a postgraduate student, but such years do not have to be counted. Please state at the top of your application if yours is for an Early Career Teaching Excellence Award, and include the number of years of teaching being considered. Applications for an Early Career Teaching Excellence Award will not be expected to have a significant institutional or national profile.

All teachers who have been nominated by their students or their peers will have recieved a letter inviting an application. Other teachers who have not been nominated may also apply and a campus announcement will invite applications. Teaching teams are welcome to apply jointly for an award, to share a prize.

Please send completed applications by attachment to lpdc@keele.ac.uk by Midnight, Thursday 28 March 2013.

Process

The applications will be assessed by a panel drawn from the membership of the University Learning and Teaching Committee and includes both staff and student representation. Applicants will be informed of the decision of the panel by the end of June 2013 and will be able to receive feedback on their application.

For any questions or queries about the Awards process please contact lpdc@keele.ac.uk

Recipients

Congratulations go to the recipients of the University's Teaching Excellence Awards for 2011-12:

 

KJHaxton Katherine Haxton

Katherine Haxton draws on her experiences, as a teacher of Chemistry and on her roles,  as a first year and a personal academic tutor, to define and continuously develop her teaching approach. Her empathy with a diverse student cohort and her aspiration to support their success  is evident in her award application and in the nominations she received.

She contributes actively to scholarship and practice-based developments in the discipline as well as offering support in Keele to colleagues looking to extend their use of technology to improve teaching and reconfigure assessment and feedback practices. Her active approach to seeking opportunities to contribute to teaching developments and to learn and develop as a teacher impressed the assessment panel.

 

H Wells Helen Wells

Helen Wells’ case for an award is supported by student comments on the positive qualities she brings to teaching and the supervision of research projects in her discipline of Criminology. In addition, she has impacted on the systems and processes within the School to improve the broader student learning offer.

She espouses a philosophy of teaching that is informed and grounded in her disciplinary knowledge, her experience outside academia and her concern for student welfare and achievement.  Her award this year is recognition of the wider acknowledgement of one student’s’ comment, that “Keele should be proud to have Helen Wells as a member of staff.”

 

Shiela Hope Sheila Hope

Sheila Hope is a lecturer in the School of Life Sciences. The assessment panel particularly commended Sheila’s creative and innovative teaching methods and the very positive response they receive from her students. In particular, her use of technology, which she uses to support students to learn at their own pace, and to provide timely, high quality feedback, was noted.

Sheila is a programme leader, and has a broad portfolio of teaching across four Schools and all levels of study. Across this breadth, she sustains a reflexive and open approach to introducing, evaluating and disseminating changes to continuously improve the student learning experience.

 

Bruce Summers

Bruce Summers

Bruce Summers impressed the assessment panel with his reflective and creative approaches to engaging medical students in meaningful learning, within practice settings at The Princess Royal Hospital, where he works as an orthopaedic and spinal surgeon/ consultant and also as a part-time lecturer and senior tutor for Keele Medical School.

A current participant on the Certificate for Medical Education, Bruce combines theory, experience in practice and his love of art into his teaching. He is current rethinking how patients can contribute as partners in the teaching-learning experience to most effectively allow students to learn both clinical and communication skills.

 

Geophys team

The Geophysics Team

The Geophysics team comprises of Drs Nigel Cassidy, Jamie Pringle and Ian Stimpson, from the School of Physical and Geographical Sciences. The team’s application impressed the assessment panel with both the individual strengths of each team member and their collective commitment and reflective approach to support students on their modules and programmes.

In addition to their teaching roles in the classroom and the field, and School and Faculty responsibilities, all three members of the team are actively contributing to learning and teaching development in the discipline. For example, by funded project work and by publication of their practice.