Queen Mary University of London announced the winners of the President and Principal’s Prizes and Education Excellence Awards for 2023. The awards celebrate innovative pedagogical approaches and successful projects that enhance student engagement and employability. The President and Principal’s Prizes recognized Dr Xue Zhou, Team Peer-Led Team Learning, Dr Jonathan Kennedy, Danielle Thibodeau and Ceri Bevan, and the Graduate Attributes Workstream members. The Education Excellence Award was given to Dr Ana Cabral and Dr Louise Younie who worked with learner representatives Harris Nageswaran and Marianne Melsen to deliver the SEED Award project. These awards reflect the university’s commitment to academic excellence and innovation, and the recognition of innovative projects and pedagogical approaches positively impacts student engagement and employability.
Queen Mary University Announces Winners of Education Excellence Awards and President and Principal’s Prizes
Queen Mary University of London has announced the winners of its Education Excellence Awards and President and Principal’s Prizes for 2023. The Awards and Prizes, now in their fifth year, celebrate innovative approaches to implementing teaching excellence, student engagement through co-creation, and an excellent student learning environment across the University.
The awardees comprise the University’s three faculties, as well as Professional Services and individuals who have worked as part of University-wide teams. During the ceremony, Professor Colin Bailey, President and Principal, and Professor Stephanie Marshall, Vice-Principal (Education), recognised exemplary examples of the use of new technology, academic support, curriculum improvements, student co-creation, and new pedagogic and assessment approaches.
Education Excellence Awards Winners
Humanities and Social Sciences
SEF Education and Scholarship Research Group
The Education and Scholarship Research Group in the School of Economics and Finance (SEF) won the award in this category. The group organised an annual conference to promote good practice in innovative pedagogy, new technology, curriculum development, equality, and diversity analysis. The group also collected case studies and analyses from other universities and scholarship experts in economics and finance to enhance the School’s reputation as a centre of excellence in teaching and scholarship research.
TAs Team for the Professional MSc Programmes, led by Dr Thomai Filippeli
This award recognises Dr Thomai Filippeli and the PG Teaching Associates team, which is crucial in delivering SEF’s professional MSc Programmes. Despite the increase in student numbers over the last four years, PTES scores have steadily risen and are among the best in the University.
Dr Georgy Petrov, Dr Fadi Safieddine, and Dr Aigerim Umbetbayeva
Dr Georgy Petrov, Dr Fadi Safieddine, and Dr Aigerim Umbetbayeva received this award for the design and delivery of an innovative module for BSc Business Management that focuses on current challenges in business and management. The module is structured around the School’s mission themes of good governance, social justice, and sustainability, with the value of ethics as a key thread.
Science and Engineering
Faith Nightingale
The award in this category recognises assessment co-creation across modules in Queen Mary University of London Engineering School (QMES), Xi’an, China. Led by Faith Nightingale, Dr Li Wang, and Dr Dong Dianbiao, the project aligns with the University’s Excellence in Education pillar and the Active Curriculum for Excellence approach. It promotes interdisciplinary learning, project-based learning, and the development of professional engineering skills in a real-world context.
Dr Patrick Cullen
Dr Patrick Cullen was awarded for the development and implementation of an innovative and effective virtual laboratory for the teaching of microbiology. The laboratory is a state-of-the-art simulation of a real microbiology lab, and it allows students to perform experiments and learn microbiology techniques without the need for a physical lab.
The Awards and Prizes are a testament to Queen Mary University’s commitment to academic excellence and innovation. The University continues to provide its students with an environment that promotes teaching excellence, fosters student engagement, and encourages innovation in education.
Queen Mary University Announces Winners of Education Excellence Awards and President and Principal’s Prizes
Queen Mary University of London has announced the winners of the Education Excellence Awards and President and Principal’s Prizes for 2023. The awards celebrate the most innovative approaches to implementing teaching excellence, student engagement through co-creation, and an excellent student learning environment across the University.
Education Excellence Awards Winners
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Dr Amitha Ranauta and Danielle Thibodeau
Dr Amitha Ranauta and Danielle Thibodeau have won this award for leading a group of staff from the Institute of Dentistry through reflective processes to introduce them to Action Research. The project aimed to evaluate an aspect of educational practice through reflection and hypothesize a future action research project.
Blizard Education Administrators
This award recognizes the work and commitment of the Blizard Education administrators. The Blizard Institute delivers a diverse range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, with a focus on meeting Queen Mary’s Strategy 2030 targets. The impact of the team’s work is reflected in high levels of student satisfaction, with Blizard programmes outpacing comparators within the Faculty, Queen Mary, Russell Group, and sector.
Dr Graham Easton
Dr Graham Easton has won this award for launching a podcast during the pandemic to support student learning and engagement. He has also co-developed new episodes with students and created an online learning module to support students in talking with Covid vaccine hesitant patients, which received a SEED award.
Laura Debrincat
Laura Debrincat has been awarded for her exceptional leadership skills and contributions to new projects within the Institute of Health Sciences Education. Laura consistently demonstrates Queen Mary’s commitments to excellence, innovation, and inclusivity. Laura started by supporting the development of the new campus in Malta and established successful working relationships with the London Professional Services team.
Dr Pedro Elston
Dr Pedro Elston has won this award for making a significant impact on the Faculty and the University through his leadership of various initiatives. He has led the development of virtual reality as an educational tool for medical students, allowing over 500 students to study anatomy in a virtual environment. He has also created virtual guided meditations to support students’ mental well-being.
The Education Excellence Awards and President and Principal’s Prizes are a testament to Queen Mary University’s commitment to academic excellence and innovation. The University continues to provide its students with an environment that promotes teaching excellence, fosters student engagement, and encourages innovation in education.
Queen Mary University Recognises Winners of President and Principal’s Prizes
Queen Mary University of London has announced the winners of the President and Principal’s Prizes for 2023. The awards celebrate innovative pedagogical approaches and successful projects that enhance student engagement and employability.
President and Principal’s Prizes Winners
Dr Xue Zhou
This prize recognises Dr Xue Zhou who designed and oversaw three successful student-led pedagogical projects between September 2021 and December 2022. These projects included peer-led team learning (PLTL), digital-ready future business leader, and the collaborative student-led online symposium, which positively impacted student engagement and employability.
Team Peer-Led Team Learning
This prize recognises the work of the Peer-Led Team Learning (PLTL) project team. Queen Mary implemented PLTL in the 2021/22 academic year, making it one of the first UK universities to do so. PLTL is an active-learning pedagogy that takes a workshop-based approach to student learning, and it has been found to have significant positive effects on student outcomes and self-efficacy in the US.
Dr Jonathan Kennedy, Danielle Thibodeau and Ceri Bevan
This prize recognises Dr Jonathan Kennedy, Danielle Thibodeau and Ceri Bevan for the development of a virtual exchange program between global public health students and pre-med students at UC Santa Cruz. The project focused on the theme of pandemics and was the first virtual exchange program developed at Queen Mary, combining virtual exchange and pandemic simulation.
Graduate Attributes Workstream
This prize recognises the Graduate Attributes Workstream members who established the Graduate Attributes Workstream in 2021 to update the University’s Graduate Attributes. The workstream was led by the Academy, and a working group was created with professional services staff, academic staff, Students’ Union representatives, and paid student interns. The group used an approach that combined ‘extracting’ employability from the curriculum, co-creation of the curriculum, and alignment with institutional values.
Education Excellence Awards Winner
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
This award recognises the work of Dr Ana Cabral and Dr Louise Younie who worked with learner representatives Harris Nageswaran and Marianne Melsen to deliver the SEED Award project. The SEED Award is a recognition scheme that encourages learner-educator co-creation to enhance learner experience and employability.
Queen Mary University’s President and Principal’s Prizes and Education Excellence Awards demonstrate the university’s commitment to academic excellence and innovation. The innovative projects and pedagogical approaches recognized by the awards positively impact student engagement and employability, and the university continues to provide an environment that promotes teaching excellence and fosters student engagement.
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