The 2024 UTS Learning and Teaching Awards and Citations winners were announced at last week’s Learning and Teaching Forum. See the full list below, as well as our UTS AdvanceHE Fellows for 2024.
Congratulations to all of the successful recipients! Your achievements will be celebrated at the Learning and Teaching Awards Ceremony in April 2025.
Awards
Contribution to Social Impact and Learning and Teaching Award
- Associate Professor Maxine Evers, Dr Genevieve Wilkinson, Dr Sacha Molitorisz, Crystal Meikle & Adjunct Professor Beth Patterson (Faculty of Law) – Law students partnering with communities and industry for social good
Individual Teaching Awards
- Dr Saidul Islam (FEIT) – real-world impact of research-driven learning: excellence in student learning
- Dr Shanaka Herath (DAB) – connecting disciplinary concepts with real-world planning policies and practices
Team Teaching Award
- Professor Emma Power, Dr Erika Penney, Dr Peter Stubbs, Bronwyn Nolan, Dr Felicia Adinanto, Dr Helen Benson & Dr Lucinda Freeman (Faculty of Health) – bridging the interprofessional education gap in allied health
Academic Support Award (Highly Commended)
- Professor Annette Gainsford, Katherine Attree & Sally McCarthy (Indigenous Teaching & Learning Team) – leading the implementation of the Indigenous Graduate Attribute across UTS onshore Award courses
Student Experience Awards
- Associate Professor Nelson Ma (Business School) – expanding the student learning experience through case competitions
- Jason Do, Associate Professor Sam Ferguson, Dr Jaime Garcia, Sarah Rodriguez & Associate Professor Nabin Sharma (FEIT) – For transforming student experience and purpose through UTS Tech Festival
- Dr Rosemary Sainty (Business School) – inspiring the work integrated learning experience of management students
Student Experience (Highly Commended)
- Dr Lisa-Angelique Lim, Associate Professor Amanda White, Dr Amara Atif, Chris Croese, Associate Professor James Wakefield, Dr Keith Heggart, Associate Professor Nicole Sutton, Ram Ramanathan, Dr Rina Dhillon, Dr Simone Faulkner & Professor Simon Buckingham Shum – fostering students’ belonging in multiple disciplines through personalised feedback
Course Innovation & Enhancement
- Distinguished Professor Tracy Levett-Jones, Associate Professor Jacqueline Pich, Carolyn Antoniou, Sue Dean & Dr Samantha Jakimowicz (Faculty of Health) – developing healthcare student’s empathy skills: The Virtual Empathy Museum
Citations
- Associate Professor Alice Klettner (Business School) – building student engagement and belonging at the intersection of law and business
- Beata Francis, Dr Ian Zucker & Peter Stewart (FEIT) – creating and implementing FEIT’s Curriculum Assessment and Learning Framework
- Dr Kelly Wang & Yanglan Zu (Business School) – transforming student learning experience through technology and innovative methods
- Dr Libby Pickering Rodriguez – (Faculty of Health) – inspiring sport students to learn biomechanics: the winning formula
- Associate Professor Sanjay Nimbalkar, Dr Piyush Punetha& Dr Mohammad Adnan Farooq (FEIT) – nurturing future railway engineers through immersive, industry-aligned learning experiences
- Associate Professor Alexandra Crosby, Dr Lin Wei, Kestity Adyandini, Simon Watson, Kartika Paksi, Kate Cormie & Lara Johnson (DAB) – best practice in learning and teaching in a global workplace
- Stephen Rutter (TD School) – pioneering innovation in entrepreneurship education and Indigenous integration
- Jack Cornish, Jessica Durant, Sarah Ellis, Steffi Dourado, Regan Gauci & Nema Madnani (Faculty of Health & CSJI) – improving priority learner experience in the Health Faculty
- Dr Kaye Chan (Business School) – tomorrow’s marketers: curricula leadership emphasising student experience and belonging
- Professor Willa Huston, Associate Professor Scott Chadwick, Dr Yvonne Davila & Professor James Brown (Faculty of Science) – equipping students to succeed with The Scientist’s Toolkit
AdvanceHE Fellowship
In recognition of our growing UTS Fellowship Community, we’d also like to congratulate the following staff who became Senior and Principal Fellows in 2024:
Senior Fellows
- Dr Alisa Percy
- Dr Amanda Lizier
- Amir Armanious
- Anna Stack
- Beata Francis
- Dr Caroline Havery
- Dr Kathy Egea
- Dr Keith Heggart
- Michaela Zappia
- Sharon Coutts
- Dr Yvonne Davila
Principal Fellows
- Professor Bem Le Hunte
- Professor Franziska Trede