Celebrating our Teaching Excellence Awards Winners 2022
21 Jul 2022
A celebration event will take place in September and the winners will be presented with their trophies by Professor April McMahon
The Institute of Teaching and Learning is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Teaching Excellence Awards. The standard of entry was extremely high, it was great to see so many colleagues evidence the reach, value and impact that they are making to enhance our students’ experience.
The panel would like to say thank you to all the nominees (and to those who took the time to nominate or support them) for their valued contributions to enhancing the quality of teaching and learning at our University, and many congratulations to the following:
Individual awards
- Becki Bennett (School of Social Sciences) Educational Leadership and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery
- David Butler (School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery and Students’ sense of belonging
- Jackie Carter (School of Social Sciences) Educational Leadership and Inclusive Education
- Jess Grundy (School of Medical Sciences) Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery
- Sally Hickson (School of Health Sciences) Educational Leadership
- Jen McBride (School of Biological Sciences) Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery and Students’ sense of belonging
- Ali Owrak (Alliance Manchester Business School) Educational Leadership and Inclusive Education
- Mark Quinn (School of Engineering) Educational Leadership and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery
Team awards
- How to Grow a Planet EART11100 (Robert Sansom and Giles Jonson) Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery
- Centre for Academic and Researcher Development (CARD) (Team Leader: Rachel Cowen) Inclusive Education and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery
- The Deaf Education Team (Lindsey Jones and Helen Chilton) Inclusive Education and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery
- Stacey McKnight and Doron Cohen (School of Health Sciences) Inclusive Education and Students’ sense of belonging
In addition, the panel made the following commendations:
Highly commended
- Oliver Hughes (School of Natural Sciences) for ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
- Marianthi Moschou (School of Natural Sciences) for ‘Educational Leadership’
- Tim Price (School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) for ‘Educational Leadership’ and ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
- Jonathan Styles (Alliance Manchester Business School) for ‘Educational Leadership’
- Katie Twomey (School of Health Sciences) for ‘Inclusive Education’ and ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
- The Pharmacy 'Our Values' Group (School of Health Sciences. Team Leader: Victoria Tavares) for ‘Inclusive education’ and ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
- The Fashion, Business and Textiles (FBT) Graduate Showcase Team (School of Natural Sciences. Team Leader: Aurelie Le Normand) for ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’ and ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
Commended
- Laura Brown (School of Health Sciences) for ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’
- Alison Harvey (School of Natural Sciences) for ‘Inclusive education’ and ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
- William Kang (Alliance Manchester Business School) for ‘Inclusive education’ and ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
- Carl Gavin (Alliance Manchester Business School) for ‘Educational Leadership’
- Andras Voros (School of Social Sciences) for ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’ and ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
- Louise Clare (School of Arts, Languages and Cultures) for ‘Inclusive education’ and ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’
- Alexander Gardner McTaggart (School of Environment, Education and Development) for ‘Educational Leadership’ and ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’
- Lujia Feng (School of Environment, Education and Development) for ‘Educational Leadership’ and ‘Inclusive Education
- MSc Forensic Psychology and Mental Health team (School of Health Sciences. Team Leader: Polly Turner) for ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’
- Manchester Leadership Programme Development Team (Alliance Manchester Business School. Team Leader: Mike Kennard) for ‘Inclusive education’ and ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’
- BSc Accounting Programme Leaders: Jenni Rose and Reimala Sivalingam (Alliance Manchester Business School) for ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’ and ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
- Digital Wellbeing: Sarah Shepherd and Jane Mooney (School of Medical Sciences) for ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’
- Digital Futures Industry Summit 2022: Charlene Gallery and Jo Conlon (School of Natural Sciences) for ‘Educational Leadership’ and ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’
- Skin Ageing and Aesthetic Medicine MSc, PGDip and PG Cert programme team (School of Biological Sciences. Team Leader: Helen Graham) for ‘Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery’ and ‘Students’ sense of belonging’
A synopsis of each winning nomination is available on the ITL website, and we will be sharing more information about their practice in the form of blog posts, case studies, workshops and other activities in due course.