WATE 2016 Winners and Commendees
2016 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence Winners
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Life Sciences |
At Warwick Lorenzo has the chance to teach a range of life sciences subjects. He always tries to convince students that each subject is equally important, timely, exciting, and fun, by mixing lectures with workshops, using technology to support learning, and through storytelling. Enthusiasm for a subject goes a long way, because every student will be able to see it in a teacher. Lorenzo has no problem showing enthusiasm for what he teaches - he loves both doing biology and being able to communicate it. |
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Theatre and Performance Studies |
Yvette’s teaching is inspired by bell hooks’ call for "that quality of education that is enabling and empowering and that allows us to grow" (Radical Openness). She understands this empowerment to encompass intellectual concepts and creative practices, and so she explores ideas, asks questions and generates more questions with her students, thereby replicating research processes and creating opportunities for collaborative knowledge generation. As her research and teaching are focused around non-western, non- text-based material, she seeks to engage students actively and critically with unfamiliar world views and approaches to culture in embodied, experiential ways that can potentially transform them all. Hear from Yvette on how an inspiring teacher can guide students |
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Warwick Business School |
Camilla's teaching is underpinned by her inherent belief in the indivisibility of teaching and learning as a dialogic process. Indeed, her pedagogical philosophy formed in response to a teaching/learning experience. Many years ago when she attended a conference as a postgraduate student, a well-known academic of the day was on stage berating students for their lack of interest in ‘politics’. That unjust and misplaced comment still shapes her current teaching practice. Camilla adamantly believes it is the responsibility of the teacher to ensure learning is meaningful, engaging, and transformative for their students. She achieves this by drawing on a repertoire of technological, critical, and linguistic practices to locate the theoretical in the students' practical lived experiences. |
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Centre for Professional Education |
Kate is passionate about teaching. After working in education for 15 years, she has many academic and professional achievements of which she is proud however nothing brings her more professional fulfilment than working with learners. She believes that it is a privilege to share their journey; the opportunity to witness their development is an honour and one which she hopes never to take for granted. Preparing students for their future, whatever that may be, is a responsibility that Kate takes seriously. Always learning herself, Kate is looking forward to developing her teaching even further at Warwick. Kate is this year's recipient of the Butterworth Award, which recognises teaching excellence from colleagues with less than six years of teaching experience in higher education. Hear from Kate on the ingredients she'd suggest to make an inspiring teacher |
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Classics and Ancient History |
Michael believes that students need to be challenged not simply by what they are learning, but also by the ways in which they are learning. As such, innovation in teaching method is a natural part of the way he helps his students learn and develop. In challenging students, he draws not only on his own research, the latest teaching pedagogy, and the fabulous resources at Warwick, but also on his deep belief in, and experience of, public engagement, outreach, and impact to ensure that his students achieve a wide range of transferable skills, essential to their success in any and every career path. |
2016 Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence Commendees
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Warwick Medical School |
Gay's primary role within Warwick Medical School is to ensure that the many complex and multifaceted assessments within the MBChB programme are robust and fair, and produce graduates who are competent, confident, and safe clinicians. This involves the training and supporting of staff within the School and local NHS Trusts to deliver high quality formative and summative assessments to drive both the teaching and learning, and maintain appropriate standards for patient safety. Her active involvement with national assessment groups enables the implementation of best practice in assessment methodology and quality assurance on the MBChB and across the School’s postgraduate courses. |
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Warwick Business School |
Mark is Head of Group and Associate Professor of Operations Management at Warwick Business School. He teaches at all levels within the business school, from foundation year undergraduates to executives. Mark’s belief is that education should be fun, useful and tailored to the learners needs. His teaching blends theory, practice, games, cases and exercises and is delivered through a variety of interventions. These include short videos that focus on singular concepts and multiple choice tests that pace students through a course, as well as in-class and asynchronously delivered open-ended simulations that problematize scenarios to allow learners to experience ‘real-life’ scenarios in a ‘safe’ space. Mark believes that the greatest gift that educators can give students is the ability to think critically. |
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Warwick Manufacturing Group |
Nick is responsible for all accounting and finance teaching in WMG. His philosophy is that of a "student centred" approach. In the process of preparing, delivering and assessing, the student should always be the focus of what we do. This involves making the content of the finance modules relevant to the full diversity of WMG students from the experienced factory manager to the new graduate, imparting financial awareness that will help students in their current or future employment.
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English and Comparative Literary Studies |
Mark sees teaching as an opportunity to talk about something he loves with people who want to listen. It's also a chance not just to 'impart knowledge', but to discuss and develop ideas, have his own sureties challenged, and learn something new from his students. For this reason he believes less in "research-led teaching" than in teaching and research as inextricable from one another: the classroom as a space to test his research as it changes and progresses, but also to find it questioned or pushed in new directions. He always try to approach the classroom as a space where everyone might be excited to explore new ways of thinking and find their view of the world changed. |
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Statistics |
Elke teaches across a wide spectrum within the Department of Statistics, from an introduction to mathematical thinking via a module on statistical practice to teaching training for PhD students. She feels equally comfortable presenting a “chalk and talk” lecture to a large cohort of first years, delivering teamwork training to integrated Master’s students in the experimental teaching space, or providing guidance to PhD students who teach via teaching observations. She is as active behind the scenes as she is in front of a class, continuously looking for opportunities to enhance the student experience. Her latest projects, funded by the WIHEA student engagement programme, include working with first year students on feedback videos and with Dr Reissner-Roubicek from the Centre for Applied Linguistics on an e-book to support intercultural student teams. |
See the 2016 Winners and Commendess of the Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence for Postgraduates who Teach (WATE PGR).