Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
Find out how we're celebrating inspirational teaching through the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching (VCAETs).
What are the awards?
The Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching celebrates inspirational teaching at Nottingham Trent University. It offers the opportunity to nominate NTU colleagues whose creativity, passion and exceptional skills have made a marked impact on students’ learning. Winners often go on to develop innovative approaches to practice and share these within NTU and across the sector.
The award is community-led by NTU staff and students and the criteria for winning comes from close consultation with NTU staff, students and alumni. Winning an Award is an esteemed mark of recognition that demonstrates awardees have made a significant contribution to the culture of inspirational learning and teaching at NTU. For this we are incredibly grateful for their contributions.
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Vice-Chancellor's Teaching Award Winners 2021/22
We are excited to announce five recipients for the 2021/22 Awards. Thank you to everybody who took part.
These awards recognise and celebrate inspirational teaching at NTU. The criteria against which an award is judged has emerged from consultation with the NTU community, including students, staff and alumni.
This means that winning an award is a mark of recognition that awardees have demonstrated an exceptional level of distinction in teaching and learning. The winners of this years awards are as follows.
David Russhard, School of Architecture Design and the Built Environment
David was nominated by two colleagues who spoke passionately about him embracing innovative approaches to learning and teaching. They told us that he was the first in his team to embrace SCALE-UP and was responsible for developing the project module ‘from a scratch’, an inter-disciplinary experience students have described as ‘unforgettable’.
Laura Manzie, School of Arts & Humanities
Laura was nominated by a colleague and a former student who said simply that ‘few colleagues embody the notion of the inspirational teacher and teacher trainer like Laura’. She encourages collaboration and sharing in her classroom, for example through the use of ‘reading circles’, constructive feedback and other student-centred approaches.
Lauren Birkbeck, School of Animal Rural & Environmental Sciences
Lauren was nominated by a colleague and a former student who wanted to tell us about the numerous ways in which she adopts a student-centred approach to empower students to take responsibility for their learning and to tailor their experience towards their own interests.
Dr Rebecca Gamble, School of Architecture Design and the Built Environment
Rebecca was nominated by two colleagues who spoke of her keen and original approach, which ensures the subject matter is constantly updated and relevant and students remain motivated and confident. They shared, specifically, Rebecca’s success in curating an online degree show during the pandemic – something which received tremendous praise from students, the design industry, and
Richard Machin, School of Social Sciences
Richard was nominated by a colleague and a former student who spoke of the many ways in which he embodies professional integrity, compassion, and resilience in his dealings with students and colleagues alike. Feedback from students shows that Richard’s impact on the course was obvious from the outset. So inspiring is his teaching that his area of study is now the most popular option for final year dissertations.
Previous winners
Vice-Chancellor Teaching Award Holders 2020/21
- Dr Stuart Burch, School of Arts and Humanities
- Dr Lia Blaj-Ward, School of Arts and Humanities
- Jonny Greatrex, School of Arts and Humanities
- Dr Andrew Mackenzie, School of Social Sciences
- Dr Andy Grayson, School of Social Sciences
- Dr Mhairi Bowe, School of Social Sciences
- Kate Mills, Nottingham Law School
- Dr Samantha Ward, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
- Dr Ali Bowes, School of Science and Technology
Vice-Chancellor’s Outstanding Teacher Award for an Early Career Teacher
- Dr Ian Whittaker, School of Science and Technology
Vice-Chancellor’s Outstanding Teacher Award for an Established Teacher
- Dr Sarah Broadberry, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
- Gianluca Fantoni, School of Arts and Humanities
Vice-Chancellor Teaching Award Holders 2019/2020
- Jennifer Sanders, School of Social Sciences
- Neil Turnball, School of Arts and Humanities
- Tracey Powell, School of Arts and Humanities
- Mojtaba Poorrezaei, Nottingham Business School
- David Hindley, School of Science and Technology
- Darren Rhodes, School of Social Sciences
- Eleanor Power, School of Social Sciences
- Ruth Boat, School of Science and Technology
- Jenny Slack, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
- Zena Rashid, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
Vice-Chancellor Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award Holder 2019/2020
- Mark Thomas, Nottingham Law School
Vice-Chancellor Outstanding Established Teaching Award Holder 2019/2020
- Lisa Clughen, School of Arts and Humanities
Vice-Chancellors Teaching Award Holders 2018/19
- Dr Matt Connell, School of Arts and Humanities
- Dr Emanuela Cervato, School of Arts and Humanities
- Mr Takanori Funamoto, School of Arts and Humanities
- Georgia Stone, School of Arts and Humanities
- Ryan Murray, Nottingham Law School
- Dr Mark Sergeant, School of Social Sciences
- Emma Reith-Hall, School of Social Sciences
- Dr Ofelia Palermo, Nottingham Business School
- David Jukes, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
- Dr Louise Gentle, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
- Dr Zakwan Arab, School of Architecture Design and the Built Environment
Vice-Chancellors Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award Holder 2018/19
- Laurence Shaw, School of Science and Technology
Vice Chancellors Outstanding Established Teaching Award Holder 2018/19
- Helen Merrin, School of Art and Design
Vice-Chancellors Teaching Award 2017/18
- David Mann, School of Arts and Humanities
- Patrick O'Connor, School of Arts and Humanities
- Chris Towers, School of Social Sciences
- Eva Zysk, School of Social Sciences
- Gareth Williams, School of Social Sciences
- Shishir Malde, Nottingham Business School
- Dan Brown, School of Science and Technology
- Kelly Yarnell, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
Vice-Chancellors Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award Holder 2017/18
- Carl Kilcourse, School of Arts and Humanities
Vice Chancellors Outstanding Established Teaching Award Holder 2017/18
- Tim Rundle, School of Art and Design
Vice-Chancellors Teaching Award 2016/17
- Moira Moran, School of Social Sciences
- Sue Hunt, School of Social Sciences
- Sheridan Brown, School of Social Sciences
- Matthew Homewood, Nottingham Law School
- Ruth Crawford, School of Arts and Humanities
- Anna Dawson, School of Arts and Humanities
Vice-Chancellors Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award Holder 2016/17
- David Wright, School of Arts and Humanities
Vice Chancellors Outstanding Established Teaching Award Holder 2016/17
- Donna Humphrey, School of Arts and Humanities
Vice-Chancellors Teaching Award Holders 2015/16
- Ronan Fitzsimons, School of Arts and Humanities
- Chris Reynolds, School of Arts and Humanities
- Doreen Connor, School of Education
- Sarah Davies, School of Education
- Nicky-Jane Kerr-Gilbert, School of Education
- Pamela Henderson, Nottingham Law School
- James Hind, School of Science and Technology
Distinguished Award for Teaching and Learning 2015/16
- Andrew O'Hagan, School of Science and Technology
Vice-Chancellors Teaching Award Holders 2014/15
- Nick Prior, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
- Justine Davidson, School of Art and Design
- Jo Boylan-Kemp, Nottingham Law School
- Ben Clutterbuck, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
- Cath Gripton, EDU
- Racheal Blazewicz-Bell, EDU
Vice Chancellors Teaching Award Holders 2013/14
- Alan Crisp, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
- Anthony Ward, School of Architecture, Design and the Built Environment
- Tina Downes, School of Art and Design
- Matthew Ashton, School of Social Sciences
- Dave Fairhurst, School of Science and Technology
- Michael Loughlin, School of Science and Technology
- Vic Brown, EDUC
- Nicholas Morton, School of Arts and Humanities
- Chris Royle, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences
- Jane Challinor, School of Social Sciences
- Rowena Hill, School of Social Sciences
- Graham Sharpe, School of Science and Technology
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