This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Student Led Teaching Awards at Cambridge Students’ Union. The Student Led Teaching Awards exist to reward outstanding teaching and student support across Cambridge University and its Colleges and have gone from strength to strength since their inception, becoming widely respected throughout the University. They are a unique opportunity for students to recognise the exceptional contribution of teaching and non-teaching staff to their education at Cambridge, and to highlight the kind of teaching and support that they value and would like to see more of.
Award Categories
The Student Led Teaching Awards are completely student-led to ensure authenticity for the recognition that staff members receive. This means that only students can nominate staff members. If you have experienced outstanding teaching or pastoral care, this is your chance to thank and acknowledge that person.
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Category
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Description
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Innovating Teaching
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This award is for any member of teaching staff who is particularly creative, inventive, or original in their teaching methods or style.
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Inclusive Practice
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This award is for any member of teaching or pastoral staff who is exceptional or impressively proactive in ensuring that their work is inclusive of all students, for example in terms of race, disability, or gender. This refers especially to practices which are inclusive of all by design, rather than to special efforts made with adjustments for individual students.
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Lecturer of the year
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This award is for outstanding lecturers and others who do content-based teaching to large groups, in any subject. You should consider if your nomination is best placed in this category, or if it is an example of innovative teaching or inclusive practice.
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Small-Group Teaching (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences)
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This award is for outstanding supervisors and other academic staff who do small-group teaching for courses in the Arts, Humanities, or Social Sciences. Nominations are encouraged from both undergraduate or postgraduate taught students. This category should also include undergraduate dissertation supervisors, study skills teachers, etc. who are being nominated for academic support. You should consider if your nomination is best placed in this category, or if it is an example of innovative teaching or inclusive practice.
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Small-Group Teaching (Science & Technology)
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This award is for outstanding supervisors and other academic staff who do small-group teaching for courses in Science or Technology. Nominations are encouraged from both undergraduate and postgraduate taught students. This category should also include lab technicians, study skills teachers, etc. who are being nominated for academic support. You should consider if your nomination is best placed in this category, or if it is an example of innovative teaching or inclusive practice.
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Research Supervisor
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This award is for outstanding supervisors of research students, including both PhD and research-based MPhil courses. You should consider if your nomination is best placed in this category, or if it is an example of inclusive practice..
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Student Support (Academic Staff)
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This award is for outstanding student welfare or pastoral support from a member of staff whose primary relationship to you is academic. This could mean a supervisor, lecturer, Director of Studies, lab technician, librarian, or similar. You should consider if your nomination is best placed in this category, or if it is an example of inclusive practice.
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Student Support (Non-Academic Staff)
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This award is for outstanding student welfare or pastoral support from a member of staff whose primary relationship to you is non-academic. This could mean a tutor, nurse, chaplain, disability mentor, or similar. You should consider if your nomination is best placed in this category, or if it is an example of inclusive practice.
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Student Partnership and Empowerment
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This award is for any member of staff who is noteworthy for achieving, campaigning for, or supporting students in campaigning for progressive change on behalf of students in the University or Colleges. This refers especially to staff who have empowered, and worked in partnership together with, students and student representatives to organise collectively for such changes.
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Check out the Student Led Teaching Awards page here in January to find out more on how to nominate..