2019 UTS Learning and Teaching Awards - award and citation winners

Pictured: Some of the award and citation recipients after the announcement at the UTS Teaching and Learning Forum.

Awards

Individual Teaching Award
Dr Mohsen Naderpour
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
For developing risk awareness in engineering students to promote sustainability.

Team Teaching Award
Dr Kristine Aquino, Cornelia Betzler and Dr Ann El Khoury
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
For enhancing the student experience of internships and work integrated learning.

Early Career Teaching Award
Dr Job Fransen
Faculty of Health
For improving learning through self-discovery.

Early Career Teaching Award (Highly Commended)
Bernard Saliba
Faculty of Health
For inspiring and motivating first-year Health Science students.

Teaching by a Casual or Sessional Staff Member Award
Raechel Wight
UTS Business School
For continuous creative resource development and leading a community of practice.

Strengthening the UTS Model of Learning Award
Dr Allison Cummins, Dr Christine Catling, Dr Deborah Fox and Vanessa Scarf
Faculty of Health
For transitioning students into professionally competent woman-centred midwives.

Strengthening the UTS Model of Learning Award (Highly Commended)
Dr Kate Delmo
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

For an internationalised, practice-based learning approach for strategic communication postgraduate students.

learning.futures Award
Dr Gavin Paul
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
For empowering students to create in mechatronic and robotic engineering.

Integration of Indigenous Professional Capabilities into Curriculum Award
Dr Megan Heyward and Dr Natalie Krikowa
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
For empowering Bachelor of Communication (Digital and Social Media) students to understand and apply Indigenous principles and protocols in a professional context.
 

Citations

  • Prof Paul Kennedy, Dr Mukesh Prasad, Aedan Roberts – Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
  • Dr Cat Kutay – Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, and Dr Paul Brown, Jarnae Leslie, and Tyler Key – Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation
  • Dr Babak Abedin – Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
  • Dr Robin Bowley – Faculty of Law
  • Christopher Croese – Faculty of Law
  • Dr Delia Falconer – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Dr Kristoffer Glover – UTS Business School
  • Dr Anna Loyeung, Associate Professor Yaowen Shan, Dr Peter Lam - UTS Business School
     

We’ll celebrate all recipients at the UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Ceremony on Monday 24 August 2020, commencing at 4 pm. 

The afternoon will feature a keynote presentation and all award winners will showcase a short summary of their work.

To align with our campus reactivation principles, the ceremony will be a small, socially distanced event, with family, friends and colleagues invited to join us via a livestream.