ANU honours its best teachers

ANU honours its best teachers

ANU has honoured its best teachers and educational innovators at the annual Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Education. Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young said the awards highlight how ANU provides an outstanding higher education alongside its role as a research-intensive university.

"Underpinning this excellence is an academic community that is committed and passionate about teaching," Professor Young said.

"These awards give recognition to both academic and professional staff for teaching, supervision, program and tutoring excellence and for their contribution to student learning.

"It takes knowledge, time, care and imagination to meet the challenges of teaching in universities, and I am really pleased that so many of our staff have those qualities in abundance."

The awards, introduced in 1991, recognise and encourage excellence in both undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and research supervision at the University. Nominations are made by Colleges and include the previous year's recipients of the College Awards as well as other nominees for the College awards. Divisions may also nominate staff for these awards.

The 2015 winners came from a range of disciplines across the University.

Award for Teaching Excellence

Associate Professor Katrina Anderson, ANU Medical School, Academic Unit of General Practice, Canberra Hospital, College of Medicine Biology and Environment

Dr Joseph Hope, Research School of Physics and Engineering, College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Dr Vinh Lu, Research School of Management, College of Business and Economics

Dr Catherine Frieman, (Early Career category) School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences

Award for Programs that Enhance Learning

The Indigenous Health Stream: Led by Professor Amanda Barnard, with Ms Gaye Doolan, Ms Samia Goudie, Dr Phyll Dance, Associate Professor Jenny Thomson, Associate Professor Christine Phillips, Professor Kirsty Douglas, and Dr Jill Bestic, ANU Medical School, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment

ANU Surveys and Evaluations: Led by Mrs Leone Nurbasari, with Ms Sara Rowley, Ms Bo Liu, Ms Karen Bell, Planning and Performance Measurement

Engaging with Community - Partnerships for Humanitarian Engineering at ANU: Led by Mr Jeremy Smith, Research School of Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science

Award for Excellence in Supervision

Professor Diana Davis, ANU Centre for European Studies, College of Arts and Social Sciences

2015 Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning

Dr Ying-Yi Chih, Research School of Management, College of Business and Economics

The Double Degree Project Management Group

Team led by Ms Felicity Gouldthorp, with Mr Andrew Alcorn, Ms Joan Angel, Ms Louise Barclay, Ms Jenny Borscz, Ms Therese Douglass, Mr Mark Erickson, Dr Sharyn Errington, Mr Ewan Evans, Ms Sarah Hawkins, Ms Marian Irvine, Mr Paul Melloy, and Ms Claire Shrewsbury.

2015 Awards for Excellence in tutoring or Demonstrating

Dr Rolando Ochoa from the School of Sociology, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

Dr Jill Sheppard from the School of Politics and International Relations, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences

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See the 2015 Recognising Excellence booklet of all recipients and candidates.