Keele Excellence Awards - Previous Recipients

Below are the previous recipients of the Keele Excellence Award in Learning and Teaching:

Keele Excellence Awards Recipients 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 compromises 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.