Sussex celebrates excellent teaching and support staff
Forty-one members of staff have been announced as winners of the University’s Excellence in Teaching Awards.
Staff and students put forward their nominations earlier in the year, after which nominees were asked to submit reflective statements evidencing how they met the criteria for the award and including feedback from colleagues and students.
School Teaching and Learning Committees reviewed the statements and agreed which of those met the criteria for award.
The full list of winners is below:
Outstanding or Innovative Undergraduate Teaching
- Dr Chris Warne, Lecturer in French History, and Dr Lucy Robinson, Senior Lecturer in History
- Dr Anne-Marie Angelo, Lecturer in American History
- Dr Ryan Scott, Lecturer in Psychology
- Prof Andy Field, Professor of Child Psychopathology
- Dr Sandra Sanchez, Associate Tutor (Psychology)
- Dr Kathy Romer, Reader in Astrophysics
- Dr Nicos Georgiou, Lecturer (Mathematics)
- Dr Sara Jane Bailes, Reader in Theatre & Performance Studies
- Dr John Lonergan, Teaching Fellow in English Language & Linguistics
- Prof Simon Morley, Professor of Signal Transduction
- Dr Ian Mackie, Reader (Informatics)
- Paul Nataraj, Associate Tutor (Media and Film)
- Dr Norifumi Kawai, Lecturer in International Business
- Dr Dimitra Petropoulou, Lecturer in Economics
- Boidurjo Mukhopadhyay, Associate Tutor (Business and Management)
- Dr Timothy Chevassut, Senior Lecturer (Honorary Consultant) in Haematology
Outstanding or Innovative Postgraduate Teaching
- Dr Ali Taheri, Reader in Mathematics
- Dr Nikolaos Papanikolaou, Lecturer in Banking and Finance
- Dr Josh Siepel, Lecturer in Management
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Malgorzata Sulimierska, Teaching Fellow in Banking
- Dr Mike Osborne, Lecturer in Accounting & Finance
- Jo Tregenza, Senior Teaching Fellow (Education)
- Dr Jo Westbrook, Senior Lecturer in Education
- Dr Hilary Lawson, Teaching Fellow (Social work and Social Care)
- Dr Denise Turner, Lecturer in Social Work and Social Care
Oustanding or Innovative Assessment and Feedback
- Pedro Rosa Dias, Lecturer in Economics
- Dr Inam Haq, Dr Julia Montgomery, Dr Nikki Gainsborough, Dr Juliet Wright, Dr Mike Titheradge, Karen Heald, Liz Kaye, Tamsin Barnett – BSMS Undergraduate Curriculum Team
Outstanding Support for the Learning Experience of Students
- Dr Kathy Romer, Reader in Astrophysics
- Dr Shane Lo Fan Hin, Teaching Fellow in Chemistry
- Wilma de Jong, Lecturer in Media and Film Studies
- Paul Nataraj, Associate Tutor (Media and Film)
- Dr Juliet Wright, Senior Lecturer in Elderly Care
Outstanding Professional Services Support for the Learning Experience of Students
- Ian Pierson, Marni McArthur and Jo Budd – BMEc Employer Engagement Team
- Jess Hallett, Course Cordinator (Education and Social Work)
Professor Clare Mackie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), said: “I am delighted that these awards allow us to celebrate teaching and learning at Sussex, which established a reputation for teaching and learning in the 1960s when it broke the mould to ‘redraw the map of learning’ – since then delivering innovative teaching, learning and student support.
“With the current pace of life, however, we often forget to reflect and celebrate the high-quality achievement in these areas.
“The University’s Excellence in Teaching Awards give us a chance to do this. These awards are richly deserved and transform the future of our students.”
On behalf of the BMEc Employer Engagement Team, Marni McArthur said: “We are immensely proud of receiving this award and all thoroughly enjoy supporting the largest placement cohort within the University.
“Our work is particularly rewarding because of the relationships we have fostered with excellent colleagues across campus, employers and (of course) enthusiastic and motivated BMEc placement students.”
Dr Anne-Marie Angelo was one of the winners of the award for Outstanding or Innovative Undergraduate Teaching. She said: “I’m delighted to receive this award. I very much enjoy teaching at Sussex – students here are curious, critical, and engaged.
“The innovative curricula in History and American Studies have inspired me to take creative pedagogical approaches, and to see teaching as a natural extension of my own research passions.”
Dr Kathy Romer, winner of two awards, said: “I am delighted with this award, but I definitely cannot take all the credit for it: the students have come up with all the brilliant ideas, and my fabulous Associate Tutors have done a brilliant job taking absolute beginners and turning them into confident experts.”
Certificates for the Excellence in Teaching Awards will be handed out at the next Teaching and Learning Conference.
Excellence in Teaching Awards will be announced again next academic year. All staff who receive a nomination in the 2015 Student Led Teaching Awards will be invited to take part in the awards. For further details, please visit the ADQE website.