Staff achievements in teaching and learning recognised at 鶹ýƵվ Education Awards 2021
10 June 2021
Congratulations to MAPS Faculty staff who featured as both winners and runners up for the 鶹ýƵվ Education Awards 2021.
The Education Awards brings together the following awards:
- Academic Rep of the Year
- 鶹ýƵվ Provost Education Awards
- Student Choice Awards
鶹ýƵվ President & Provost Dr Michael Spence AC, Vice-Provost (Education & Student Experience) Professor Deborah Gill, Ayman Benmati (SU Education Officer) andJim Onyemenam (SU Postgraduate Students' Officer)introduce.
Faculty AcademicRep of the Year (Mathematical and Physical Sciences)
Winner: Myra Farooqi
Lead Department Rep, 鶹ýƵվ Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction
“Myra is at the frontline to fight for representation and changes that impact the cohort and has made a real impact on students’ education.” As a Lead Rep, Myra has been nominated for her tireless and continuous work for improving the student experience. She has gone“above and beyond in her methods of collecting the students’ opinions” and used the results from a survey to create a 12 page report for the SSCC meetings. She has also hosted regular office hours and organised meetings for all Reps. Myra has also made sure that student wellbeing was not neglected, and hence created a Zoom link that is open 24/7 for students to use whenever they need to socialise, or worktogether.
Student Choice Awards
Award for Diverse and Inclusive Education
Winner: Luciano Rila
Lecturer (Teaching), Faculty of Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Award for Outstanding Research Supervision
Runner-up:CarolineKnapp
Lecturer, Faculty of Mathematics & PhysicalSciences
Caroline Knapp was appointed Lecturer in 2017, in the Inorganic section at 鶹ýƵվ Chemistry. She gained her MSci (2006) and PhD (2010) from 鶹ýƵվ in the field of precursor design for aerosol assisted chemical vapour deposition. Following this she worked on low valent group 14 chemistry at UC Davis, with Professor Phil P. Power FRS. She returned to the UK, firstly with a post doc. at Imperial College before being awarded a Ramsay Memorial Fellowship in 2015. Aside from teaching her research group now carries out investigations isolating highly air and moisture sensitive precursors for the printing of electronic devices.
Provost Education Awards
Winner (Assessment and Feedback): VictoriaHilborne
Lecturer (Teaching), 鶹ýƵվ Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematical and PhysicalSciences
Winner (Education success for all): Andrea JiménezDalmaroni
Honorary Associate Professor, London Centre for Nanotechnology, Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Andrea is passionately committed to transforming university education in STEM through modern evidence-based methods and active learning, and she has been highly effective; she is among the international leaders in this area, making her own original contributions and working with leading groups worldwide. She has promoted wide-ranging and successful innovations and helped to promote a culture change at 鶹ýƵվ. In addition, she has shown exceptional national leadership (unique, in someone at her career stage) with the organization of a series of UK-wide workshops having international input and reach. She feels a sense of personal mission to bring practice in the UK to level of the best elsewhere, and she is achieving this at 鶹ýƵվ and nationally.
Congratulations to all 鶹ýƵվ staff and students who have been recognised in these awards.