EUSA Teaching Awards
Biomedical educators Dr Kim Picozzi and Professor Jamie Davies were recognised for excellence in teaching at the EUSA Teaching Awards on the 20th of April.
Categories for teaching excellence
This year's categories for the EUSA Teaching Awards are Best Feedback, Best Personal Tutor, Best Student who Tutors, Best Research or Dissertation Supervisor, Best Support Staff, Best Course, Best Overall Teacher, and Innovative Assessment.
Top nominations
More than 2000 nominations were received, and a student judging panel chose the shortlist and winners.
Global Health and Infectious Diseases, run by Dr Kim Picozzi, was nominated in the category of Best Course, while Professor Jamie Davies was nominated for Best Overall Teacher – The Kendell Award for Teaching in Medicine.
Winner
Jamie Davies won for Best Overall Teacher – The Kendell Award for Teaching in Medicine. This is the third time Davies has won this award.
Runner-up
Global Health and Infectious Diseases came runner-up for Best Course, coming second to SPS in Practice.
I am delighted that colleagues in BMS have been recognised in the recent EUSA Teaching Awards, following on from the recent success of Debbie Shaw and the BMTO team for the EUSA Impact award for ‘Best student Peer Support Scheme’. This is an outstanding achievement and the more remarkable in that this is the third time Jamie has received the award for Best Overall Teacher. On behalf of all in BMS I would like to thank Jamie, Kim and all colleagues for their tremendous work and the recognition they have bought to their students, colleagues and BMS.
The winners
The winners in each category were as follows:
Best Feedback
Mal Burkinshaw, School of Design, Edinburgh College of Art
Best Personal Tutor
Dr Jamie Cole, School of Physics and Astronomy
Best Student Who Tutors
Paul Archibald, Reid School of Music, Edinburgh College of Art
Best Research/Dissertation Supervisor
Professor Siân Bayne, Moray House School of Education
Best Support Staff
Lee Gaedtke, School of Health in Social Science
Best Course
Dr Meryl Kenny and Professor Fiona Mackay, School of Social and Political Science (for: Social and Political Science in Practice)
Best Overall Teacher
The Kendell Award for Teaching in Medicine
Professor Jamie Davies, Edinburgh Medical School; Biomedical Sciences
The Award for Teaching in Veterinary Sciences
Julie Dickson, The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Medicine
The Van Heyningen Award for Teaching in Science and Engineering
Dr Ahmad Al-Remal, School of Engineering
The Ian Campbell Award for Teaching in the Humanities and Social Science
Marwa Mouazen, School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Innovative Assessment
Dr Isla Myers-Smith and Dr Aidan Keane (for: Conservation Science)
Teaching Matters
The University is also celebrating innovative learning techniques – and sharing great teaching ideas – as part of its Teaching Matters initiative.
The Teaching Matters website, and accompanying blog, allows teachers and learners to explore new ideas, demonstrate fresh approaches and discuss ways to improve learning. It also highlights the best examples of teaching.
EUSA Teaching Awards
To find out more about the EUSA Teaching Awards, inlcuding the full list of winners and nominees, visit the EUSA website.