MyAV范

The Education Awards comprise of:

• MyAV范 Education Awards (staff nominated by staff)
• Student Choice Awards (run by the MyAV范 Students鈥� Union, staff nominated by students)听
• Academic Rep of the Year Awards (Reps nominated by students and staff)

For Student Choice Awards, 936 nominations were received from students, recognising 478 members of staff for their contributions. Professor听Chris Howard (MyAV范 Physics & Astronomy) won the award for Sustainable Education.听

Upon receiving the award, Professor听Howard said: 鈥淭he Net Zero challenge requires an unprecedented pivot across industry and how we live our lives. Inspiring and empowering the next generation of leaders, innovators and scientists to attack this challenge is perhaps the most impactful contribution we can make as academics. I鈥檓 therefore really happy that I was nominated for this award by the students.鈥�

MyAV范 has nearly 2,000 Academic Reps, who represent students鈥� academic interests every day. Any student or staff member can nominate an Academic Rep (including Course Reps, Research Student Reps, Lead Department Reps and Faculty Reps) for this award.

Each faculty has an award for Academic Rep of the Year, and this year鈥檚 winner for our faculty is the brilliant Andrea Lekare (MyAV范 Science & Technology Studies).

Andrea reflected on her role: 鈥淚 remember my first day of uni. I started my degree during the height of the pandemic, and so this day was memorable in several ways. A few weeks later, we received an encouraging email prompting us to become course reps. However, nothing or no one could have prepared me for the exciting new journey as a course representative at university.听

鈥淎s second year started, we began to see increased initiatives and efforts to bring students back to campus and back to the amazing community STS endorses. We started slowly pushing face-to-face events to warm students and staff up for what would become a year full of incredibly interesting and exciting events, conferences, and social gatherings.

鈥淎ll I can say is that my experience as a student would not have been the same without all the amazing people I got to meet and the skills I developed as a student rep. I wish to continue this work wherever I go, and take a little piece of MyAV范 with me everywhere.鈥�

The Faculty also facilitates an internal version of the Education Awards, called MAPS Faculty Education Awards. This year, the panel received a strong field of nominations both for individual and team categories. They were very impressed with the range of teaching and assessment innovations, and the positive impact different staff have had on the student experience.

Our congratulations to the winners below, and thanks to them for the work they have put in to deliver an exceptional learning experience for our students.听

• Nikki Baxter (MyAV范 Careers) - Individual Excellence
• Mhari Gordon (MyAV范 Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction) - Individual Excellence
• Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha (MyAV范 Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction) - Individual Excellence
• Antonio d鈥橝lfonso del Sordo (MyAV范 Mathematics) - Individual Excellence
• Dr Beatriz Navarro Lameda (MyAV范 Mathematics) - Individual Excellence
• Dr Daniel Verscharen (MyAV范 Space & Climate Physics) - Individual Excellence
• Dr Russell Evans (MyAV范 Statistical Science) - Individual Excellence
• Karen Leport (MyAV范 Statistical Science) - Individual Excellence
• Zahra Khan (MyAV范 Chemistry) - Highly Commended
• Vytenis Rimkevicius (MyAV范 Chemistry) - Highly Commended
• Dr Lisa Danquah (MyAV范 Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction) - Highly Commended
• Dr Yulia Ioffe (MyAV范 Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction) - Highly Commended
• Eimear Hurley (MyAV范 Mathematics) - Highly Commended
• Professor Jason McKewen (MyAV范 Space & Climate Physics) - Highly Commended
• Angharad Weeks (MyAV范 Space & Climate Physics) - Highly Commended
• Dr Menelaos Pavlou (MyAV范 Statistical Science) - Highly Commended
• Giuseppe La Rosa (MyAV范 Science & Technology Studies) - Highly Commended
• Dr Simon Lock (MyAV范 Science & Technology Studies) - Highly Commended
• Assessment MyAV范 Team (MyAV范 Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction) - Team Excellence
• Inclusion Team (MyAV范 Science & Technology Studies) - Team Excellence

Links

• MyAV范 Education Awards 2023 winner announcement 听
• More about the MyAV范 Education Awards 听
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• MyAV范 Physics & Astronomy 听
• MyAV范 Science & Technology Studies 听

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Professor Chris Howard (left) and Andrea Lekare (right).

Media Contact

Ingrida Bertasiute
i.bertasiute [at] ucl.ac.uk
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