Education Excellence Awards

Collaborative Awards:

Learning Technology Services (Michael Downes, Owen Williams, Jacquelene Gill, Zinatul Karim, Luxman Sivagnanasegarum, Sam Lloyd and Melissa Lamptey)

For enhancing students’ digital learning experience in the virtual learning environment

Naomi Lafitte and Andrew Saul

For innovative module redesign to promote multi-professional learning on the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Michelle Moroney, Noreen Kassem, Elizabeth Staddon, Soosan Atkins, Katie Pavoni, Ioana Enany and Julie Hendry

For multi-professional, cross-institutional collaboration to develop an equitable, centralised approach to Extenuating Circumstances

Individual Awards:

Pui Kei Chan  

For leadership in digital accessibility

Andrew Hitchings     

For outstanding redesign of teaching to foster accessible and inclusive learning

Trupti Jivram  

For excellent project management of educational technology infrastructure processes and delivery

Steven Lupton                       

For proactive, student-centred administration in primary care Medical education

Efthymia Papaevangelou

For innovative enhancement of the BSc Clinical Pharmacology cancer curriculum

Vice-Chancellor’s Prizes are given to Education Excellence Award winners whose work has made an exceptional contribution to excellence and enhancement of the student educational experience, and where there is strong potential for transferability and wider impact. This year, winners of both an Education Excellence Award and Vice-Chancellor’s Prize were:

 Shehla Baig                           

For outstanding academic leadership of strategic organisation and development in the Medicine curriculum.

Rosalind Ogden, Sophia Finucane and Andrew Lacey

For an exemplary student-staff partnership approach in creating an inclusive library learning environment.

Congratulations to all award winners!  And many thanks to everyone who took part in the process, helping to build our education community by making a nomination, submitting an application, or participating in the panel.

Collaborative Awards: 

• Androulla Elia, ​​Senior Lecturer in Biomedical Sciences​  Alexis Bailey, ​Reader in Neuropharmacology, Ferran Valderrama, ​​Reader in Cancer Cell Biology​, Jonathan Fee Head of Allied Health Programmes Administration, Anna Spalla, ​​Science Programmes Administrator​ and Emma-Marie Fry, Senior Careers Consultant                  

For pioneering a Professional Training Year for Biomedical Science students

• Charles Anderson, Etienne Chew, Gareth Davies and Emily Morrison, Clinical Teaching Fellows at St Helier Hospital            

For designing an innovative simulation-based approach that has improved medical students’ preparedness for medical handover

• Jenn Stott Senior Lecturer in Molecular Pharmacology, and Fu Liang Ng,  Clinical Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology​            

For co-leadership of the exemplary Practical Research Project module in the second year of the BSc Clinical Pharmacology degree

Individual Awards:

• Yasmeen Malik, Course Director for Radiotherapy and Oncology    

For transforming the teaching of radiotherapy treatment planning

• Dean Semmens, Lecturer in Neuropharmacology        

For innovative and engaging teaching

• Ban Haider, Associate Dean for Culture and Development  and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care Education       

For inclusive academic practice through teaching and leadership

• Kajal Patel , Senior Examinations Officer    

For exceptional dedication to the running of effective assessment processes for the benefit of students and the university

• Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Occupational Therapy           

For sustained commitment to inclusivity in taught- and practice-based components of the BSc Occupational Therapy degree

A Special Commendation for Educational Resource Development was givento the Museum of Human Diseases Canvas module team, led by Carol Shiels, Lead for Public and Civic Engagement and the Curator of the Museum of Human Diseases. To develop the resource, Carol worked in partnership with BSc Biomedical Science students (Nana Sampah, Maya Jandu, Xavia Christi, Earnest Selvadurai, Hamda Mire, Nadia Jowaheer, Sadiq Khawaja, Hameet Dhaliwal, Ayush Rabadiya, Mithushiga Sukeekaran, Rania Abdel-Rahman, Rydhm Luthra, Varshini Nimmagadda, Viveka Nayyar, Nadim Mohammed, Syeda Imaan) and with Learning Technology Services, in particular Professional Training Year student, Paarth Depala    

A Vice-chancellor’s Prize was awarded to:

Ban Haider for sustained commitment to addressing discrimination and inequalities in education.

Collaborative Awards:

• Katie Pavoni and the Student Paramedic Blue Light Champions -  for inspirational commitment to the promotion and support of student wellbeing 

(Alice Lane, Anna Stark, Abi Blythe, Josh Shelley, Amelia Pulford, Laura Whitbread, Ashleigh Whitham, Holly Denney, Mark McGibbon, Georgia Mew, Eleni Verity, Evie O’Donoghue, Grace Hurford, Jessie Leach, Emily Marshall, Aoibhin Cooley, Will Nangle, Thomas Roberts, Susie Somovilla, Morgan James)

• Covid 19 Outbreak Control Team - for vital education support and navigation during unprecedented times

(Gavin Taylor, Chanelle Annan, Beth Okona-Mensah, Nicola Fitzgerald, Jenny Laws, Sue David)

• The Student Union Sabbatical Officer team - for constructive challenge and championing inclusivity

(Becky Kemp Arnold, George Hadjiyiannakis and Ogor Babundo)

• The Medicine penultimate year Intro Week team  - for a model approach to collaborative design and delivery

(Shagayegh Javadzadeh, Katie Creamer, Annie O’Leary)

• The Medicine Early Years Clinical Education team - for innovative and integrative design of the pre-placement week

(Claire Spiller, Nicola Buxton, Katherine Taylor, Cherry Buckwell, Nicoletta Fossati, Margot Turner)

• The Medicine Public Health team  - for engaging design, inclusive practice and continuous enhancement of the final year clinical attachment

(Umar Chaudhry, Tahira Chishti, Richard Alderslade, Miranda Mindlin)

Individual Awards:

• Mohani-Preet Dhillon - for leading work to address inequity in access to academia
• Brogan Guest – for innovative redesign of the module Applied Pharmacology
• Sangeeta Patel – for sustained commitment and educational excellence in the Medicine General Practice attachment
• Bryony Williams – for active championing of student-centred learning design
• Kevin Hayes – for leadership of Medicine assessment
• Dagan Lonsdale – for development of the advanced undergraduate module in pharmacokinetics
• Hamed Khan – for transforming the Medicine Clinical Skills curriculum, in partnership with students, to equip learners for diagnosing clinical signs in people of colour

Principal’s Prize winners are selected where there is exceptional contribution to excellence and enhancement and strong potential for transferability and wider impact. This year the prizes go to:

• Katie Pavoni and the Student Paramedic Blue Light Champions - for inspirational commitment to the promotion and support of student wellbeing
• Mohani-Preet Dhillon - for leading work to address inequity in access to academia

• Anatomy Education: Georga Longhurst
  
• Developing an online placement in Psychiatry: Isabel Mark
• Online education design in Diagnostic Radiography: Michael Dean
  
• Supportive leadership of the medical programmes team: Hannah Cock
  
•  Interactive teaching in Psychiatry: Charlotte Turner
  
•  Attention to accessibility and student well-being in the Therapeutic Radiography programme: Lauren Fantham
  
•  Active learning in statistics and epidemiology education: Alicja Rudnicka
  
•  Active learning design: Iain Greenwood

•  Strategic leadership and support for online education: CTiE 
  
•  Curriculum innovation, for the module 'Finding a Leg to Stand on': Deborah Padfield and Annie Bartlett
  
•  Curriculum design, for the MSc Translational Medicine module 'Clinical Trials': Sile Molloy, Louise Hill and Jack Adams
  
•  Innovation, creativity and evaluation in Clinical Communications teaching: Clinical Communication Teams (MBBS)
  
•  Online small group teaching: PBL tutors
  
•  Values-based and inclusive approach to admissions: Admissions

Two Principal Prizes were awarded: one to Georga Longhurst for her work in Anatomy Education and one to the CTiE team for Strategic Leadership and Support for Online Education.

• Student-centred Teaching and Welfare: Professor Anthony Albert, Institute of Molecular & Clinical Sciences
• Research-inspired Teaching and Learning: Dr Alexis Bailey, Centre for Biomedical Science in IMBE
• Leadership and Innovation in Assessment: Dr James Buckley, Centre for Biomedical Education in IMBE
• Careers Development Education: Dr Androulla Elia, Centre for Biomedical Education in IMBE
• Programme Leadership: Julie Hendry, Department of Radiography, FHSCE
• Assessment Innovation and Enhancement: Andrew Hitchings, Centre for Clinical Education in IMBE
• Clinical Teaching and Simulation in Paramedic Science: David Parr, Department of Paramedic Science, FHSCE
• Leadership of the Student Voice: Beth Ward, Vice-President for Education and Welfare, Student Union
• Collaborative Programme Design and Innovation: Clinical Pharmacology development team — Professors Emma Baker and Iain Greenwood, Bryony Williams (CTiE), Errol Lobo, and Drs Mark Preece, Jennifer Stott, Dagan Lonsdale, Christopher Threapleton, Catrin Page, and Moyo Kuku
• Curriculum Design, for the module “Primary Care: Complexity and Diversity”: Drs Emma Metters and Nicola Buxton, Centre for Clinical Education in IMBE

Two Principal’s Prizes were awarded: one to Dr James Buckley, for Outstanding Contribution to Education, and the other for Staff-Student Partnership in Inclusive Teaching and Learning to a Centre for Clinical Education team: Shehla Baig, Pedro Elston, Margot Turner, Peter Tamony, and Robert Nagaj, together with students Adrian Crawford, Malone Mukwende, Jonathan Tugbobo,  Valentina Abi Osman, Bankolu Alo and Caspian Priest for their collaborative work across two inclusive curriculum projects.