PGR Teaching Awards 2016
July 7, 2016
The Postgraduate Teaching Award is an annual award to recognise and celebrate examples of innovative teaching and support of learning. In 2016 there were five winners who each received a certificate and a £100 voucher at the Tri-Campus awards. Due to the high calibre of applicants, an additional four received a ‘Highly Commended’ certificate. The …
PGR Teaching Awards 2015
June 29, 2015
Postgraduate Teaching Award 2015 The Postgraduate Teaching Award is an annual award to recognise and celebrate examples of innovative teaching and support of learning. In 2015 there were 3 winners who each received a framed certificate and a £100 voucher. Due to the high calibre of applicants, an additional two received a “Highly Commended” certificate. …
Evaluate Report February 2015
April 16, 2015
Evaluate was introduced in September 2014 to electronically collect Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) and Student Evaluation of Module (SEM) feedback. This replaced previous paper based SET and SEM questionnaires. On 16/1/2015, Information Services extracted all the UK surveys in Evaluate and sent this as a spreadsheet to Professional Development. The following results are from …
The road to Senior Fellowship of the HEA
February 5, 2015
Maris Farquharson: “Whilst completing our PhDs at Nottingham University Business School, UK in 2006/7 a friend suggested that, if we were to consider lecturing as a career, then getting the Post Graduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) was a must. We were subsequently exposed to a comprehensive overview by the PGCHE team leading a series …
The School of English report on TESTA Audit
November 27, 2013
Jo Robinson and Nathan Waddell: “As part of our ongoing commitment to improving feedback and assessment practices, the School of English bid for funding from the 2012/13 Teaching Development Fund in order to carry out an audit of its assessment structures with a view to reshaping our practice. The audit was undertaken using the TESTA …
Postgraduate teaching award winners
July 19, 2013
The Postgraduate Teaching Assistant Award recognises and celebrates examples of innovative teaching and support of learning and is recognised as a mark of distinction within the University. Winners from 2013 come from the schools of Engineering in China and from Politics and Business in Nottingham. Due to the high standard of applications, three applicants were …
Working my way from the outside in: reflections of a NTFS winner
July 11, 2013
Dr Sarah Speight: “I’ve been at Nottingham since 1987 when I arrived to do an MA in the department of Archaeology. I followed this up with a PhD (on 12th century Yorkshire). Both the MA and PhD were studied part-time – I funded myself by working as the sales manager of a local company selling …
Valuing our teaching
February 1, 2011
Video >> Paul Greatrix: “I think recognising excellent teaching is hugely important and before I came to Nottingham, I was impressed from afar with the Lord Dearing Awards because they seemed to me to be an explicit and overt way of really celebrating teaching within the University. They are very competitive and the award of them …
In conversation with Lord Dearing Award Winners: Ed Lester, Chemical, Environmental and Mining Engineering
January 31, 2007
Video >> Kate: “Can I ask you about asking the students questions in lectures, why do you do it and what do you think are the benefits?” Ed Lester: “Probably because the attention span of the average person is in the order of minutes. You have got to do anything you can to get them to think …
In conversation with Lord Dearing Award winners: Martin Luck, Biosciences
Video >> Kate: “In a subject such as yours, what do you think are the main purposes of running practical classes for your students?” Martin: “The main purpose in this case is to reinforce the material that we’ve dealt with in the lecture. The lectures are good for describing concepts and explaining principles, but in a …
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