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Keele Excellence Awards in Learning and Teaching 2012-13
Call for Applications Now Open!
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:
- An ability to influence learners* positively, to inspire them and to enable them to achieve their goals or intended learning outcomes;
- 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;
- 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:
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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:
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.
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.”
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 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.
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.
