The Teaching Awards reflect the impact of individuals and teams who teach or support learning at UWL, recognising their success and providing a platform to share the learning from their practice. The awards made at to individuals will be £750 and teams will be awarded £1000 (to be divided by its group members)*.
*Note: The award is to be used for professional development only
Award categories
We particularly welcome nominations in the following categories:
- Early Teaching Career Award-Academic staff (Individual award x 1)
This award focuses on early career academic staff who contribute to outstanding teaching and learning on credit bearing courses that has been impactful in terms of students’ learning at module level. - Teaching Excellence Award – Academic staff (Individual award x2)
This award focuses on active engagement with scholarship of teaching and learning and its dissemination through
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- Contribution to knowledge and use of effective, active, and engaging pedagogy or
- Student centredness or
- Inclusive learning and teaching or
- Demonstrating alignment between their teaching and learning
- This list is not intended to be exclusive
- Innovation in Teaching and Learning award – Academic and Professional services staff (Individual x 1 and Team award x 1)
This award focuses on innovative teaching and learning methodologies including digital approaches and use of technology which has positively impacted on students’ learning - Teaching Award for embedding employability within the curriculum to support professional employment of students -Academic and Professional services staff (Individual x 1 and Team award x 1)
This award focuses on employability through
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- co-and/or extra-curricular activity or
- consideration of pedagogy and/or assessment or
- work based or work-related learning approaches
- This list is not intended to be exclusive
How to nominate
- Nominations can be made for a colleague from an individual who is familiar with their work in relation to teaching and learning
- Nominations should be made using this link: UWL Teaching Awards Nomination Form
- The deadline for nominations is Monday, 30th May 2022
Review panel
Nominations for a teaching award will be considered by a panel comprising academic and professional services staff and the Senior Academic Developer (CELT).
The award winners will be announced at the Festival of Learning and Teaching on 19th July 2022.
Award Criteria
Please see below for the criteria against which nominations will be evaluated. It should be noted that these criteria are indicative only as applications in the different award categories may differ in that the level of achievement in one criterion may compensate for limited or no achievement in another criterion.
- Demonstrable impact on learning and teaching practice at UWL and beyond
- Contribution to enhancing the student experience
- Drawing on up-to-date learning and teaching practice in Higher Education
- Engagement with scholarship of teaching and learning and its dissemination
- Impact of exceptional leadership in learning and teaching
- Contribution to enhancing the reputation of the University
Award winners
It is expected that the Award monies will be used to support the individual’s professional and pedagogic development.
In addition, prize winners will be:
- expected to contribute to the UWL’s annual Festival of Learning and Teaching the following year (if not already doing so)
- encouraged to contribute to New Vistas (UWL online peer reviewed and indexed journal) with full support offered from within the centre and Editorial team, as a means of dissemination of good practice
- encouraged to work towards Senior Fellowship of the HEA through our accredited CPD scheme Advance UWL and submit a claim for National Teaching Fellowship where considered appropriate
- Invited to contribute to teaching on the taught programmes (Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Academic Practice and Academic Professional Apprenticeship) run by the Centre
If you have further questions, please email celt@uwl.ac.uk
