Teaching Excellence

There is still time to apply for the final round of Teaching Excellence Development Fund for 2024/25 academic year, with applications closing on Friday 11th April 2025.

Students and staff are invited to submit proposals for the 2025 ITL Conference, held on the 2 and 3 July 2025. Various formats are encouraged, such as Wicked Problem Sets, Paper presentations, Poster displays, and Lightning talks. The submission deadline is 5pm 28th February.

Charlene Gallery is a Reader in Digital Fashion Innovation, Employability Lead and Inclusive Pedagogy Specialist in the Department of Materials. She leads the Student Knowledge Exchange (SKE) team that won the Inclusive Education award at the 2024 Teaching Excellence Awards for the SKE project – a project that addresses professional attainment (PA) gaps for international […]

Tom Rodgers is a Reader in Chemical Engineering Education in the Department of Chemical Engineering. At the 2024 Teaching Excellence Awards he won the award for Educational Leadership and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery. Here Tom tells us how he has focused on developing rich-media resources to allow students to learn at their own pace, developing strategies for group problem solving, peer marking, and in-class discussions.

Lisa Taylor is a Senior Lecturer Fashion Business and Technology Department of Materials. She led the Fashion Education and Inclusive Learning Innovators (FEILI) team that won the Inclusive Education and Flexible Learning and Digital Delivery award at the 2024 Teaching Excellence Awards for their Digital Learning Technologies Project: a Creative Combination to Augment Applied Learning. Here she tells us more about the project and what the future might hold.

We are pleased to announce the launch of several new initiatives to support teaching excellence across the University.

The Teaching Excellence Development Fund offers funding to all those involved in teaching to promote and develop ‘teaching excellence’ work, including academic staff, PS staff, and GTAs.

The Teaching Academy is here to support you in developing your teaching and learning practice. Whether you are looking for a professionally-accredited programme or…

Colleagues across our Faculty regularly demonstrate innovative and inclusive teaching practice, going the extra mile to ensure our students’ learning experience is the very best it can be. Whether you know a colleague who does great work or want to celebrate your own teaching practice, the University has several awards dedicated to recognising excellence in teaching and learning.

“Social” Responsibility doesn’t refer to the impact being only social in nature, it incorporates a wide range of activities contributing to the environmental and economic (as well as social) wellbeing of people, areas, nations, etc.