LX / It’s a wrap! Photos and video from the Learning and Teaching Awards Ceremony

This week we celebrated the annual Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Awards, a night to recognise the many talented UTS staff who are innovating their learning experience for students. 42 staff from across the learning and teaching community were recognised on the night. The night was also a chance of us to get together to share ideas and meet colleagues across all faculties.

See the photos from the night, including all award and citation recipients.

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Check out the Learning and Teaching Awards Ceremony wrap video:

Video by: Matthew Vella

Awards

UTS Chancellors Learning & Teaching Showcase
Award winners on stage

Team Teaching Award

Helena Asher-Chiang (Team Leader), Dr Alex Thomson, Naomi Koh Belic
UTS Careers and Science
Building science students’ self-confidence and employability skills through collaborative career development learning.

Individual Teaching Award

Dr Catherine Gorrie
Science
Embedding learning activities in the Biomedical science course that require students to think independently, use their initiative and to be creative.

Early Career Teaching Award

Dr Simon Knight
Transdisciplinary Innovation
Leading learning.futures approaches to data literacy.

Casual Teaching Award

Dr Amir Armanious
Business
For exponential learning and better employability, finance and economics curricula are restructured to enhance students’ skills by thinking critically and working collaboratively using real-world simulations.

Learning.futures Teaching Award

Dr Ann Reich (Team Leader), Dr Donna Rooney, Dr Nick Hopwood, Dr Gregory Martin, Dr Amanda Lizier, Annie Agnew, Dr Jacqui McManus, Catherine Raffaele, and Amy Thomas
Arts & Social Sciences
An innovative whole-of-course design for the Masters of Education (Learning & Leadership): Embedding learning.futures in the whole-of-course curriculum development and learning and teaching

Learning.futures Teaching Award

Dr Nicole Sutton (Team Leader) and Raechel Wight
Business
Try, try and try again: a continuous, collective approach to doing learning.futures.

Strengthening the Model of Learning Award

Dr Julia Prior
Engineering & Information Technology
The Software Development Studio: conception, realisation and a demonstrable educational success.

Social Impact Award

Dr Jane Hunter
Arts and Social Sciences
Building innovative practices in teaching and learning for preservice high school English teachers.

Commendations

Team Teaching – High Commendation

A/Prof Deborah Edwards (Team Leader), A/Prof Carmel Foley, Meg Hibbins
Business
Scaling support for individual learning journeys in a large Masters capstone to motivate student success.

Teaching by Casual of Sessional Staff Member – Commendation

John Burke
Business
Bringing theory to life: How a difficult subject became an authentic work-ready opportunity.

Indigenous Professional Capabilities – High Commendation

Dr Campbell Drake (Team Leader), Allan Teale and Michael Day
Design, Architecture & Building
On Country Learning: The integration of Indigenous cultural competencies and professional capabilities for second-year Interior Architecture students in Spatial Agency Design Studios.

Citations

UTS Chancellors Learning & Teaching Showcase
Citation recipients, award winners join Deans and Snr Exec on stage.

A/Prof Beth Goldblatt (Team Leader), Rachel Coventry
Law
For: Deepening students’ professional readiness through practice-oriented learning within a diverse and integrated legal internship program in local and international settings.

Dr Cherie Lucas (Team Leader), Dr Caleb Ferguson, Carolyn Hayes, Dr Tamara Power
Graduate School of Health and Faculty of Health
For: ‘Two heads are better than one’ – Development, Implementation and Sustainability of a Novel Teaching and Learning Model (RIPE: Reflective lnterprofessional Education Model) to enhance Collaboration.

Lorely Aponte Ortiz,
Arts & Social Sciences
For: “From parallel play to collaborative meaning-making” – Approaches to teaching that motivate students to learn and experience different perspectives through Spanish.

Dr Kristine McGrath (Team Leader), Dr Jacqueline Melvold, Dr Renee Dowse
Science
For: Integrating student peer review into a large first-year science subject.

A/Prof Maurizio Labbate (Team Leader), Dr Yvonne Davila, Neela Griffiths
Science and Institute for Interactive Media and Learning
For: Empowering science students with writing skills that improve academic integrity and develop scientific written communication practices.

Penny Hooper
Arts & Social Sciences
Developing students’ Chinese language proficiency through student-centred interaction.

Dr Sean Walsh (Team Leader), Dr Adam Morgan
Science and Institute for Interactive Media and Learning
For: Supporting students’ collaborative learning journeys using visualisation reflective practices to map and make sense of group work experiences

Keynote Address

A special thanks also to Professor Susan Page, who recently won the national Neville Bonner Award, for delivering an inspiring keynote address on ‘To know or not to know: Challenges for Indigenous Studies teachers and learners’.