UWL Teaching Excellence Awards 2023 

The Teaching Excellence Awards recognise the positive impact of individuals and teams who teach or support learning at UWL, celebrating their success and providing a platform to share the learning from their practice. The individual awards 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:  

1. Early Teaching Career Award – Academic staff (Individual award x 2)

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.
 

2. Teaching Excellence Award – Academic staff (Individual award x2)

This award focuses on active engagement with scholarship of teaching and learning and its dissemination through  

  • Contribution to knowledge and use of effective, active, and engaging pedagogy or 
  • Student centredness or 
  • Demonstrating alignment between their teaching and learning  

This list is not intended to be exhaustive
 

3. Innovation in Teaching and Learning award – Academic and Professional services staff (Individual or Team award x 2)

This award focuses on innovative teaching and learning methodologies including digital approaches and use of technology which has positively impacted on students’ learning 

 

4. Award for Inclusive Education – Academic staff (Individual award x2)

This award focuses on active engagement with scholarship of teaching and learning and its dissemination through Inclusive learning and teaching practice
 

5. Teaching Award for embedding employability within the curriculum to support professional employment of students – Academic and Professional services staff (Individual award x 1 and Team award x 1)

This award focuses on employability through  

  • 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 exhaustive 

 

6. Award for Educational Leadership – Academic or professional services staff (Individual award x2)

This award focuses on excellent leadership in learning and teaching with demonstrable impact on the professional practice of others with reach beyond the immediate teaching context. 

 

How to nominate 

  1. Nominations can be made for a colleague or team by an individual who is familiar with their work in relation to teaching and learning 
  2. Nominations should clearly indicate how the nominee’s initiatives meet the award criteria, including examples 
  3. Nominations should be made using this form 
  4. The deadline for nominations is Thursday, 12th October 2023 

 

Review panel 

Nominations for a teaching award will be considered by a panel comprising representatives from academic schools/colleges, professional services and the CELT Team, chaired by the Head of CELT.  

All nominees are required to attend the Teaching Excellence Awards on 21st November 2023 at 3pm where the award winners will be announced. 

 

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.  

  1. Demonstrable impact of learning and teaching practice with explicit evidence of enhancement with regards to for example, student outcomes, practice or policy as a result of the initiative
  2. Demonstrable impact of excellent leadership in learning and teaching: influence on the practice of others, such as at subject, school/college, institutional level or beyond
  3. Drawing on up-to-date learning and teaching practice in Higher Education 
  4. Engagement with scholarship of teaching and learning and its dissemination  
  5. Contribution to enhancing the reputation of the University 

 

Award winners 

Award winners will be celebrated at the Teaching Excellence Awards on 21st November 2023, and presented with a Teaching Awards Certificate. 

 

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) as a means of dissemination of good practice 

 

  • encouraged to work towards Advance HE Senior Fellowship through our accredited CPD scheme Advance UWL and, if appropriate, receive support to develop a claim for the national Advance HE Teaching Excellence Awards (National Teaching Fellowship or Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence)  

 

  • Invited to contribute to delivery on the taught courses (Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Academic Practice and Academic Professional Apprenticeship) run by CELT