Humanities outstanding staff awards

Online learning has been more important than ever during this academic year. Is there somebody who has particularly engaged you through an effective use of technology?

This award recognises staff who’ve used innovative teaching techniques, assessment tasks or learning materials to support learning and engagement or helped students to enhance their digital skills.

• Outstanding Digital Enhanced Teaching Award

Your lecturers, programme support team and others may have played a key role in improving your employability skills and knowledge within your programme and your teaching and learning experience.

Has your lecturer effectively incorporated employability, be it in the forms of skills, knowledge, or guidance, into your programme or course unit?

Do you feel better geared up for the world of employment through the support received from your lecturer? If so, then nominate your chosen person for the teaching and employability award.

• Outstanding Teaching and Employability Award

Is there a member of staff who helps to run your programme or works in student support who has positively contributed to your experience as a student?

The Professional Services award celebrates the non-academic staff who provide help and support with a positive attitude and who have demonstrated exceptional care or assistance towards students, especially during what has been an unprecedented and difficult time during the past 12 months.

They may have helped you or fellow students through a difficult academic or pastoral situation or gone ‘the extra mile’ to ensure an issue with your course has been effectively resolved.

• Outstanding Professional Services Staff Award

Your programme (sometimes referred to as your course) is the reason you came to The University of Manchester.

Has your programme exceeded your expectations? Are the team that teach and organise your programme inspiring, motivating and/or innovative?

Have they fostered your love for your subject and encouraged you to aim high, to challenge and believe in yourself?

Maybe you’ve been well supported by the people who look after your programme (academic, technical and professional services colleagues)?

If you think that the people who contribute to making your programme make it one worth talking about, then nominate it as one of the Faculty’s programmes of the year.

• Outstanding Programme of the Year Award

This award celebrates supervisors who have had a significant, positive impact on Undergraduate (UG) students’ experience of putting together a dissertation.

Has your UG Dissertation Supervisor provided exceptional advice and support to develop your skills as an independent researcher?

Have they challenged and inspired you in your independent thinking and learning, encouraging you to develop your own lines of enquiry and think critically about your work?

• Outstanding UG Dissertation (or long essay/research project) Award

Has your academic advisor provided an outstanding level of advice and guidance during your studies?

Do they help students thrive by building strong relationships with their advisees and supporting, motivating and encouraging them?

Maybe they have helped you develop your academic skills, made the transition from school to university easier or given you great guidance on academic and practical matters related to your studies.

We want to know about academic advisors who have gone the ‘extra mile’, providing support and guidance that has had a positive impact on your development, especially during what has been an unprecedented and difficult time during the past 12 months.

• Outstanding Academic Advisor nomination form

This award recognises supervisors who have had a significant, positive impact on Postgraduate Taught (PGT) students’ experience of putting together a dissertation.

Has your PGT Dissertation Supervisor provided exceptional advice and support to develop your skills as an independent researcher?

Have they challenged and inspired you in your independent thinking and learning, encouraging you to develop your own lines of enquiry and think critically about your work?

Please note that this award is not for PhD supervisors and any such submissions will not be considered.

• Outstanding PGT Dissertation Supervisor Award

Has your lecturer or teaching assistant inspired you to learn and do your best?

Do they engage and challenge you in a supportive manner, motivating you to learn?

This award recognises teaching staff who consistently provide a well-organised course that is taught effectively and supported through high-quality assessment and feedback.

• Outstanding Teaching (Lecturers and TAs) Award

Winner:

• Mario Pezzino

Highly Commended:

• Claire McGourlay

Winner:

• Ali Owrak

Highly Commended:

• Alex Campsie
• Arif Khurshed
• Ashley Collar
• Dharmi Kapadia
• Gemma Edwards
• Gordon Fraser
• Graham Smith
• Lawrence Ado-Kofie
• Patricia Perlman-dee
• Siobhan Smith
• Suzanne Gower

Winner:

• Aurora Fredriksen

Highly Commended:

• Andrew Fearnley
• Dimitrija Kalanoski
• Mario Pezzino
• Wayne Ramwell

Winner:

• Hilary Pilkington

Highly Commended:

• Joe Blakey
• Artemis Christinaki
• Aseem Pahuja
• Rotimi Ogunsakin

Winner:

• Ceri Fowler

Highly Commended:

• Andrew Slack
• Daniel Silver
• Matt Dennis
• Sandra Pogodda

Winner:

• Rachid M'rabty

Highly Commended:

• John Moore

Highly Commended:

• Tatjana Kecojevic
• Yawei Zhao

Winner:

• BSc Accounting

Highly Commended:

• PGCE MFL
• BSc Education