WAPTE 2020 Winners
Warwick Awards for Personal Tutoring Excellence |
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2020 Winners |
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Nigel Denton Deputy Senior Tutor WMG |
Tilly Harrison Senior Tutor Centre for Applied Linguistics |
Julie Taylor Senior Teaching Fellow Centre for Teacher Education |
| Nigel Denton is the Deputy Senior Tutor in the School of Engineering, a role through which he provides exceptional support for students. Through this role, Nigel has helped to ensure the sharing of good personal tutoring practice, supporting both staff and students in the School of Engineering as well as his home department WMG. He takes a leading role in student induction and encouraging students to engage with the support and opportunities available at Warwick from the start of their degrees. Nigel has a particularly strong focus on employability and has developed strong links between the Careers Team and Personal Tutors to help students develop their career choices and work on CV’s and personal statements. He organises Professional Body talks for students every year and actively encourages students to engage with their future profession and commit to becoming responsible professional engineers. |
Tilly Harrison has been the Senior Tutor in the Centre for Applied Linguistics for the past 10 years working closely with colleagues to build personal tutoring for their undergraduate provision. Tilly’s clear commitment to personal tutoring and building community is recognised by staff and students alike and reflected in metrics such as NSS scores. Her approach combines pastoral support, an emphasis on social integration in the department and university communities and academic and professional development for all students. Tilly has a deep understanding of support available in and outside the university which she uses to guide students and works collaboratively with services to enable all students to perform to the peak of their abilities and without compromising their overall wellbeing. Amongst her colleagues and students, Tilly is known as the ‘heart and soul’ for community cohesion and wellbeing initiatives and colleagues in the department acknowledge her consistently excellent contribution. |
Julie Taylor is course leader for the Primary PGCE School Direct route as well as being lead for Primary Partnership and Mentoring in the Centre for Teacher Education. Julie has a hugely positive impact on students through her leadership of the programme and her facilitation of the experiences which students have in schools. Her awareness of the diverse needs of students, many of whom are career changers, has led her to develop a range of personalised provision opportunities for the students, including professional practice support and academic writing workshops and she works proactively in collaboration with a range of support services to co-lead tailored sessions. Sessions are supplemented with a carefully planned 1:1 tutorial programme and regular drop ins for additional support throughout the PGCE year. As Primary Mentoring Lead for CTE, Julie has worked in partnership with schools, to support school-based mentors to transition from traditional mentoring to a coaching approach with positive impacts for students and staff. |
