Teaching Awards 2025 winners announced

The Teaching Awards, run by the Students' Association, celebrate the very best of teaching and support at Edinburgh. The awards provide students with an opportunity to thank staff who have helped shape their time at the University.

This year the awards received more than 1,700 nominations, all of which were reviewed by the Students’ Association’s Sabbatical Officers and a group of nearly 100 student volunteers.

Teaching Awards winners

Teacher of the year

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Lynn McNair (Moray House School of Education and Sport)

College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Andrew Storey (Edinburgh Medical School)

College of Science & Engineering

Harvey Huang (School of Engineering)

Outstanding course

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

Sociolinguistics by Christian Ilbury (School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences)

College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine

Intermediate R Programming for Data Science by Brittany Blankinship (Deanery of Molecular, Genetic and Population Health Sciences)

College of Science & Engineering

Public Participation in Policy by Hannah Grist (School of GeoSciences)

Support staff of the year

Matt Vickers (Careers Service)

Supervisor of the year

Leah Macaden (School of Health in Social Science)

Cohort Lead of the year

Per Smiseth (School of Biological Sciences)

Student Adviser of the year

Claire Lightfoot (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures)

Student Tutor of the year

Nishat Tasneem (School of Social and Political Science)

Sabbatical Officers’ Special Recognition Award

Tom Bruce (School of Engineering)

Find out more

You can read more about all the winners and the awards on the Students’ Association website:

Teaching Awards | Edinburgh University Students' Association 

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