Warwick Awards for Teaching Excellence (WATE)

Celine Martin, WMG

Celine Martin, awarded SEM Faculty Award for her innovative work leading learning design, and developing online learning which promotes inclusion and belonging within the WMG community.

"I feel hugely privileged to have won this teaching award;

I know we have an excellent teaching community within Warwick. I see excellence everyday and to be recognised as part of that excellence; it's incredible, it's humbling, and it's a huge honor.

"For people starting out in their teaching career, take risks, believe in yourself, believe that if you take that risk, and it doesn't work out or nothing happens, or if something goes wrong- it's ok. But if you keep taking those risks, in time, those risks will pay off. You'll start to grow, and you'll see the rewards."

David Coates, Theatre and Performance Studies
School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures

David Coates, awarded Arts Faculty Award for integrating skills-based education within the Theatre and Performance undergraduate curriculum, creating authentic experiences, within and beyond the classroom to equip graduates for the twenty-first century.  

“For me, student experience is key – I’m not only interested in what’s happening in those seminar rooms and classrooms, but I also really care about what the greater student experience is.

"I’ve thought a lot about how we integrate things like careers, the industry, and wellbeing into what we do in the department. So that is both my passion, but also where I’ve made the most impact in our department.”

Meet all our WATE winners

Warwick Awards for Public and Community Engagement (WAPCE)

Fatemah Jafar (Undergraduate)

Fatemah Jafar, awarded a WAPCE for her work in inspiring the next generation of scientists, championing physics, diversity and the community. Notably, Fatemah is the first undergraduate to deliver one of the Warwick Christmas lectures; a live event for 2000 school children, seeking to make complex science fun and understandable.

We spoke with Fatemah to hear her thoughts on winning the award and learn more about the work she's been doing:

Warwick's Submarine Team

Warwick's Submarine Team, awarded the WAPCE Team Award for their work in engaging a wide range of audiences about the joys, wonders and importance of engineering. Over the last 10 years, the team has proven the many benefits that a well-thought out and longitudinal project can have both on those delivering it, and those
engaging with it.

Professor Ian Tuersley, Staff team member:

"The WAPCE award is a wonderful recognition of the efforts of successive student teams over the last 10 years to engage with a wide range of people – from sponsors and Professional Institutions, to the general public and schoolchildren."

Colm Dudley, Student team member:

"Winning this award is a great achievement and shows how united we all are behind the project. It's a great indication of how our communication has developed for the benefit of working together as a team and engaging new audiences of all ranges."

Meet all our WAPCE winners

National Teaching Fellowship

With the return of graduation ceremonies, we were able to celebrate in person with some of our National Teaching Fellowship recipients from previous years.

Robin Naylor, Professor of Economics

Robin Naylor was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2020 for his teaching and research, which has sought to open-up higher education to create positive outcomes for all, regardless of background or other personal characteristics.

"There were three highlights for me in the graduation ceremony. First, it was a pleasure to be present for the honorary doctorate award to Dame Sharon White, whose career and contributions to public life have been so significant.

"Second, the choir's rendition of the University anthem was so stirring and uplifting, as it always is - but now after a gap of two summers, all the more so.

"Third, having my colleague Jeremy Smith on stage alongside me was hugely important personally as the award is in large part a reflection of our joint research in the area of widening higher education participation, with impact both within and beyond Warwick."

Hear from Robin as he talks about his experiences of teaching and what it meant to be awarded a National Teaching Fellowship.

Jo Angouri, Professor, Academic Director of Education and Internationalisation, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Applied Linguistics

Jo Angouri celebrated for her National Teaching Fellowship, awarded in 2019 in recognition of her contribution to research-led education, multidisciplinary curriculum design and co-creation.

“I am absolutely delighted and truly honoured to celebrate my award with the 2022 graduates and my own students just starting the next chapter of their life. After the years of the pandemic, it has been a special day to be able to celebrate together.

"I strongly believe that the most important contribution of universities to a better world is graduates who have received strong research-led education.

"I have had the good fortune to work and learn with many Undergraduate, Postgraduate and PhD students over the years; they always play a central role in my thinking through sharing their journey with me and their critical comments on established orthodoxies of all sorts."

Meet our National Teaching Fellow for 2022

Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence (WAPTE)

Bryan Brazeau, Liberal Arts

"I believe that we really need to think of the whole lifecycle of the student - what's going on outside of the classroom, how students are navigating this world, and how are they growing and changing during their time at University.

One of the things we do in Liberal Arts is to emphasise the idea of critical thinking and of creating global citizens who can be active players in solving the problems of tomorrow. Students are much more likely to take chances - intellectually and creatively with their assessments, with module choices, even with the things they choose to study for their research dissertation and course pathway - if they feel that they are within a supportive environment.

For me, being a Personal Tutor is an essential component in my mission as an educator. I really think that innovative pedagogy, cutting-edge research, and compassionate student support are three equal parts of the same triangle of creating a wholistic and meaningful educational experience in the twenty-first century."

Gemma Gray, Department of Psychology

"We get to see our students throughout their whole degree, it's amazing to see how they grow and develop their skills over that time.

"I'm really passionate about helping our students with disabilities, to make sure that they are able to reach their potential. I really want to make sure that our students are aware of the range of support that we have available to them and to be an advocate for them because I want Warwick to be as inclusive as possible."

Meet all our WAPTE winners