Book your tickets to join us at the UCL Education Awards 2022 on Wednesday 8 June for a drinks reception, presentations and a BBQ to celebrate UCL staff and students who teach.
The UCL Education Awards will take place on Wednesday 8 June 2022 inÌýUCL's Wilkins Terrace and North Cloisters. The annual celebration will be hosted byÌýVice-Provost (Education & Student Experience), Professor Kathleen Armour, and Ayman Benmati (SU Education Officer). Family and friends are welcome!
The Education Awards recognise and celebrate the achievements of staff and students and their contributions to our learning community. They comprise of:
- UCL Education AwardsÌý(staff nominated by staff)
- Ìý(run by the UCL Students’ Union, staff nominated by students)Ìý
- Ìý(Reps nominated by students and staff)
While the Student Choice Awards focus on rewarding excellence in practice, as experienced by students,ÌýUCL Education Awards recogniseÌýthe work of colleagues that is less visible to students – work that has enabled excellent practice or facilitated innovation in teaching and learning.Ìý
Along with the ceremony there will also be an exhibition in North and South Cloisters featuring the nominees for the Education Awards, Academic Rep of the Year Awards and Student Choice Awards.
The Education Awards programme
16:15: Registration begins
Please come along with your tickets to check in to the eventÌýfrom 4.15pm.
17.00 Welcome from UCL and Students’ Union UCL
Professor Kathleen Armour, Vice-Provost (Education & Student Experience) for UCL and Ayman Benmati, Education Officer for Students’ Union 911±¬ÁÏÍøill be welcoming staff, students and guest to start our evening of celebration.
17.20 Student Choice Awards Presentation
The first set of awards this evening are chosen by our students. This year, 903 nominations were submitted for 503 different staff members. We will announce the incredible staff who have won the Student Choice Awards across the nine categories. Get ready for the excitement!
17.40 Provost Education Awards Presentation
We will announce the number individuals and number teams from the UCL Education Awards who have been truly exceptional to win a Provost’s Education Award this year.
18.05 Academic Rep of the Year Award Presentation
There are eleven faculty awards for Academic Reps of the Year. The overall winner of the UCL Academic Rep of the Year 2022 award will also be announced.
18.20 Refreshments and Entertainment
Please take the time to enjoy the refreshments and entertainment, and check out the exhibition in the North and South Cloisters which showcases the great work of those nominated for an award this evening.
Nominees
Each of the following nominees has been awarded a UCL Education Award by their Faculty and shortlisted for a UCL Provost Education Award.
The winners of each category will be announced in at the ceremony on Wednesday 8 June.Ìý
We hope you can join us!
UCL Education Awards Nominees
- Academic support, with a focus on personal tutoring and/or research supervision
Individual nominees:Ìý
- Sean Hanna, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Bartlett (Built Environment)
- Michelle Tinsley, UCL School of Management, Engineering Sciences
- Seán Kavanagh, Chemistry Department, Mathematical & Physical Sciences
- Vitor De Sousa Teixeira,ÌýDivision of Medicine, Medical Sciences
- Petros Syrris, Institute of Cardiovascular Science (ICS), Population Health SciencesÌý
- Kalina Zhekova, Political Science, Social and Historical Sciences
- Keri Wong, Psychology & Human Development, Institute of Education
Team nominees:Ìý
Christian Emery, Aglaya Snetkov, Michael Wozniak, Robert Bodden Alex Allsopp and Alison Davies,ÌýUCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies, Arts & HumanitiesÌý(UCL Student Support and Wellbeing, based in SSEES)
- Assessment and Feedback
Individual nominees:Ìý
- Corisande Fenwick, Institute of Archaeology, Social & Historical Sciences
- Nader Francis, Surgery and Interventional Science , Medical Sciences
- Dr. Stylianos (Stelios) Giamarelos, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Bartlett (Built Environment)
- Ozgur Yazaydin, Chemical Engineering, Engineering Sciences
Team nominees:Ìý
- Alison Sturrock, Taylor Bennie, Charlotte Hammerton, Carys Phillips, Clare Wadlow, Gil Myers, Sebastian Casalotti, Elizabeth Vacher and Victoria Clausen-Thue,ÌýUCL Medical School, Medical Sciences
- Innovation and Transformation with a focus on building learning communities
Individual nominees:Ìý
- Prof Stephen Gage, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Bartlett (Built Environment)
- Nidhi Rathod, Division of Biosciences (formerly), Life Sciences
- Punam Yadav, IRDR, Mathematical & Physical Sciences
- Sarah Bennett, UCL Medical School, Medical Sciences
- Paul Winyard, GOS Institute of Child Health, Population Health Sciences
- Dr. Alejandro Bolaños-GarcÃa-Escribano, School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS-CMII), Arts and Humanities
- Dr. David Sim, History, Social and Historical Sciences
- Dr. Helen Matthews, Student and Registry Services
- Gill Brackenbury, Psychology of Human Development, Institute of Education
- Lucie Charles, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain SciencesÌý
Team nominees:Ìý
- Dr Esfand Burman, Dr Farhang Tahmasebi, Dr Yair Schwartz, Dr Yi Zhang, Dr Gordon Lowry, Dr Ivan Korolija, Professor Peter Raynham, Professor Jian Kang, Luke Olsen, Oliver Wilton, Professor Bob Sheil, Klaas de Rycke, Dr Graeme Williamson, Professor Michael Stacey, Del Hossain, Dan Carter, Ruth Evinson, Dr Sam Stamp, Professor Tim Dwyer, Professor Dejan Mumovic, Dr Virginia Gori, Dr Valentina Marincioni, Professor Ben Croxford, Dr Liora Malki Epshtein, Professor Dina D’Ayala, Professor Jose Torero, Dr Fabio Freddi, Dr Santosh Bhattarai, Dr Laura Hannigan, Dr Yasemin Didem-Aktas, Dr Anderson Inge, Dr Matthew Heywood, Professor Marek Ziebart, Professor Matthew Coop, Dr Pedro Ferreira, Dr Pippa Cowles,ÌýBartlett School of Architecture & Engineering, Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering, Bartlett School of Environment, Energy and Resources (BSEER) & Civil, Environmental and Geomatic EngineeringÌýÌý
- Dr Stephen Hilton, Dr Zoe Waller, Dr Gary Parkinson, Mr Cory Beckwith, Dr Benjamin Bowles, Miss Mireia Benito, Miss Sophie Schafhauser, Mr Jean Charles Sarraf, Miss Tamara Fajinmi, Mr Nazrul Bin Abdullah,ÌýUCL School of Pharmacy, Life SciencesÌýÌý
- Dr Robert Stephens; Professor David Walker,ÌýDepartment of Targeted Intervention Div of Surgery & Interventional Science, Medical SciencesÌýÌý
- Stefanie Anyadi, Aoife Lawrence, Giulia li Calzi, Andrea Santi, Zsofia Varga and Jamie White,ÌýDivision of Psychology and Language Sciences, Department of Linguistics, Brain SciencesÌýÌý
- Toryn Poolman and Renee Vancraenenbroeck,ÌýDivision of Biosciences (Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology), Life Sciences
- Liz Munday, Tamara Alhilfi, J.L. Kiappes, Martyn Towner, Claire Gacki, Crosby Medley, Alan Philcox, Dave Webb, Luka Nunar, Helena Wong, Katherine Holt, Gopinathan Sankar, Yang Xu,ÌýDepartment of Chemistry, Mathematical & Physical SciencesÌýÌý
- Professor Eleanor Main, Sally Davenport, Dr Louise Kedroff, Dr Harriet Shannon, Dr Jane Simmonds, Patricia John, Adine Adonis, Danny Armitage, Catherine Barrett, Annette Coomer, Helen Douglas, Jennifer McCahill, Leyla Osman, Charlotte Pereira, Sarah Rand, Melissa Walk-ley and Naomi Winfield, GOS Institute of Child Health, Population Health SciencesÌý
- Openness and Inclusion
Individual nominees:Ìý
- Dr. Heather Bailey, Institute for Global Health, Population Health SciencesÌý
- Tim Beasley-Murray, UCL Arts and Sciences, Arts and Humanities
- Dr. Cathy Elliott, Political Science, Social & Historical Sciences
- Amy Lourenco, UCL Careers and UCL East
- Dr. Zachary Walker, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education
- Vincent Van Eylen, Department of Space and Climate Physics, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Mathematical & Physical SciencesÌý
Team nominees:Ìý
- Dr Silvia Dal Bianco & Prof. Marcos Vera Hernandez,ÌýEconomics,ÌýSocial & History SciencesÌýÌý
- Rima Chakrabarti, Kavita Jaidev, John Hines, Tor Wright, Maylani Appasamy,ÌýUCL Medical School, Quality Assurance and Enhancement Unit (QAEU), Medical SciencesÌýÌý
- Postgraduate Teaching Assistants (PGTAs)Ìý
Individual nominees:Ìý
- Iga Åšwiercz, The Bartlett School of Architecture, Bartlett (Built Environment)
- Dan Ristea, Computer Science, Engineering Sciences
- Lotte Hargrave, Political Science, Social and Historical Sciences
- Sadé Bates, Genetics, Evolution and Environment, Life Sciences
Team nominees:Ìý
- Student-Staff Partnership
Individual nominees:Ìý
- Beth Barnett-Sanders, Bartlett (Built Environment)Ìý
- Chow Yin LAI, Engineering Sciences
- Kathryn Ball, Life Sciences
- Sam Hopkins, Mathematical & Physical Sciences
- Rima Chakrabarti, Medical Sciences
- Joanna Pajerska, Population Health Sciences
- Caterina Pellò, Arts and Humanities
- Marc Esteve, Social and Historical Sciences
- Liz (Elisabeth) Herbert, Institute of Education
Team nominees:Ìý
- Ms Rashmi Mathew; Ms Christin Henein, Dr Fong Yee Liu & Dr Elsa Lee,ÌýInstitute of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Brain SciencesÌýÌý
- Rupa Lakhani, Tina Nyazika, Sarah Bennett, Eloise Evans, Kiran Mehta & Charlotte Casteleyn,ÌýUCL Medical School, Medical Sciences
- Sustainability - A new category for 2022
Individual nominee:Ìý
- Paolo Taticchi, School of Management, Engineering Sciences
Team nominee:Ìý
Prof. Marcos Cruz, Associate Prof. Brenda Parker,ÌýBio-Integrated Design MArch/Msc Programme Directors, Bartlett (Built Environment)
National Teaching Fellow Scheme (NTS)
The following faculty nominations will be considered by the Education Awards Panel as a UCL nominee for the National Teaching Fellow Scheme:Ìý
- Prof. John Mitchell, PFHEA,ÌýEngineering Sciences
- Dr. Antigone Gkaravella,ÌýPopulation Health Sciences
- Paolo Taticchi, Engineering SciencesÌý
This year, aÌýnumber of colleagues were nominated by peers and submitted directly to UCL Arena Centre. These nominations will be reviewed and where it isÌýfelt the individualÌýisÌýdeserving of recognition for exceptional contribution, Arena Centre willÌýrefer the nomination to the University Awards Panel for considerationÌýalongside nominations from faculties.
Student Choice Awards
The Student Choice Awards give students the chance to thank members of staff who have inspired and supported them during their time at 911±¬ÁÏÍø, letting these staff members know that their hard work makes a difference.
There are 9 different award categories, covering a variety of areas and enabling a wide range of both teaching and non-teaching staff to be nominated.
Please see below a full list of nominees for this year's Student Choice Awards:Ìý
- Active Student Partnership
- Arash Nassirpour, Engineering Sciences
- Kate Shobbrook, Brain Sciences
- Keri Wong, Institute of Education
- Amazing Support StaffÌý
- Alina Kim, Engineering Sciences
- Kate Moore, Social & Historical Sciences
- Stefanie Anyadi, Brain Sciences
- Brilliant Research-based Education
- Alec Sanderson, Engineering Sciences
- Nauro Campos, Social & Historical Sciences
- Wayne Holmes, Institute of Education
- Diverse & Inclusive EducationÌý
- Haydn Kirnon, Arts & Humanities
- Robert Simpson and Kim Leontiev, Arts & Humanities
- Sarah-Louise Quinnell, Engineering Sciences
- Excellent Personal Tutoring
- Abbie Bray, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
- Ahmed Saadé, Social & Historical Sciences
- David Scanlon, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
- Exceptional Feedback
- Alvina Lai, Population Health Sciences
- JD Carpentieri, Institute of Education
- Jorge DÃaz-Cintas, Arts & Humanities
- Inspiring Teaching DeliveryÌý
- Ahmed Saadé, Social & Historical Sciences
- Antonio d’Alfonso del Sordo, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
- Charmian Dawson, Life Sciences
- Outstanding Research SupervisionÌý
- Mehran Moazen, Engineering Sciences
- Vijay Chudasama, Mathematics & Physical Sciences
- Zhifu Mi, Built Environment
- Sustainable Education
- Alison Macdonald, Social & Historical Sciences
- Deanne Attreed, Medical Sciences
This year the Student's UnionÌýreceivedÌý933 nominations covering over 500 individual members of staff.ÌýYou can view the full list of nominations on their.
Congratulations and good luckÌýto all this year's nominees!