Announcing our Teaching Excellence Awards Winners 2024

24 Sep 2024

The Institute of Teaching and Learning is delighted to announce the winners of this year’s Teaching Excellence Awards on behalf of the University.

These awards are made in recognition of significant and sustained excellence in teaching and learning. The winners will be presented with their trophies by Professor April McMahon, and by Professor Duncan Ivison will congratulate colleagues who have won AdvanceHE national teaching awards this year, at a celebration on 14 October.

A synopsis of each winning nomination will be made available on the ITL website shortly, and we will be sharing more about their practice in the form of blog posts, case studies and workshops in due course.

Our thanks to all of the nominees (and to those who took the time to nominate or support them) for their valued contributions to teaching and learning at The University of Manchester, and many congratulations to the following:

Individual Awards

• Thomas Rodgers (School of Engineering)
• Fatima Malik (School of Health Sciences)
• Aya Van Renterghem (John Rylands Library Special Collections)
• Adam Cooke (The University of Manchester Library)

Team Awards

• Glaucoma Learning At Manchester (GLAM) (School of Health Sciences) Team Leader: Dr Catherine Porter, with Paul Rogers, Patrick Gunn, Robert Harper, Cecilia Fenerty, David Bennett, Amanda Harding, Catherine Park and Ravi Ahluwalia
• The Belonging Partnership Project: Team Leader: Reimala Sivalingam (Alliance Manchester Business School) with Hamza Badenjiki (eLearning)
• Fashion Education and Inclusive Learning Innovators (FEILI) (School of Engineering) Team Leader: Lisa Taylor, with Dan Jagger and Steve Davies)
• The Medical and Health Education Programme Team (School of Medical Sciences) Team Leaders: Dianne Burns and Bipasha Choudhry, with Jessica Grundy, Jennifer Metcalfe, Marcus Percy, Pam Giblin, Chris Wade, Joanne Harvey, Amelia Kehoe, Siobhan Brennan, Rachelle Donn, Helen Pusey, Silke Conen and Shireen Tahir
• The Student Knowledge Exchange Team (School of Natural Sciences) Team Leader: Charlene Gallery, with Courtney Chrimes and Fiona Velez-Colby

Highly Commended

1. Emma Pimlott (School of Medical Sciences)
2. Mauro Luberti (School of Engineering)
3. Donna Lloyd (School of Health Sciences)
4. Janine Dixon (School of Natural Sciences)
5. Michael Smith (School of Biological Sciences)
6. The FBT PGT academic team (Team Leader: Jo Conlon) (School of Natural Sciences)
7. The Aerospace Field Course Team (Team Leader: Khristopher Kabbabe) (School of Engineering)
8. The Unit Leader Team for ENGM 60061 (Team Leader: Kun Wang) (School of Engineering)
9. CHEM20711 Industrial Biotechnology Team (Team Leader: Nicholas Weise) (School of Natural Sciences)
10. The Awarding Dashboard team (Team Leader: Andrew Mawdsley) (School of Health Sciences)
11. The Senior leadership team of the primary PGCE (Team Leader: Liz Birchinall) (School of Environment, Education & Development)
12. FBMH Pedagogy Development Team (Team Leader: Dianne Burns & Catherine Porter) (School of Medical Sciences)
13. The Materials FBT Academic Team (Team Leader: Janine Dixon) (School of Natural Sciences)
14. Team Decolonise (Team Leader: Louisa Shirley) (School of Health Sciences)

Commended

1. Lee Wickham (School of Health Sciences)
2. Liz Sheader (School of Medical Sciences)
3. Abdullatif Alfutimie (School of Engineering)
4. Dr Anne M. Hyland (School of Arts, Languages & Cultures)
5. Emma Jenkinson (School of Biological Sciences)
6. The Intermediate Care team (Team Leader: Dr Sherrie Samuels) (Rochdale Infirmary)
7. The PGCE Secondary WAPP team (Team Leader: Naina Kotecha) (School of Environment, Education & Development)
8. The Assessment and Feedback Workshop Series Team (Team Leader: Wayne Ramwell)

For further information

See: ITL website

Contact: teaching.learning@manchester.ac.uk