Student-Led Teaching Awards 2024: Shortlist

The Student-Led Teaching Awards 2024 Shortlist is here!

We’re proud to release our shortlist for the 2024 Student-Led Teaching Awards! This year we received an incredible 645 nominations from students, which demonstrated the huge variety of exceptional contributions made by staff at the University. The Student-Led Teaching Awards (SLTAs) exist to reward outstanding teaching and student support accross Cambridge University and its Colleges. The winners will be announced at the Award ceremony which will take place on Thursday 13th June, shortlisted nominees will be invited to the ceremony, along with the students who nominated them. 

On behalf of all students, we want to thank everyone who was nominated for their fantastic work. We would also like to thank every student who took the time to submit a nomination, and for our two student judging panels. 

We are delighted to announce the shortlisted nominees for the 2024 Awards!

Inclusive Practice

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.

SHORTLIST:  

1. Eisner Manuel
2. Edward Crowley
3. Janet Deane
4. Simon Chapman
5. Howard Nelson

 Innovating Teaching

This award is for any member of teaching staff who is particularly creative, inventive, or original in their teaching methods or style.

SHORTLIST:  

1. Damon Wischik
2. Oleg Kitov
3. Emma Mawdsley
4. Mukesh Kumar
5. Yongcan Liu

Lecturer of the Year

This award is for outstanding lecturers and others who do content-based teaching to large groups, in any subject. 

SHORTLIST:  

1. Claire Crawford
2. Julian Allwood
3. Li Wan
4. Simone Schnall
5. Frank Salmon

Research Supervisor

This award is for outstanding supervisors of research students, including both PhD and research-based MPhil courses. 

SHORTLIST:  

1. Andrew Sanger
2. Dr Sinéad Agnew
3. Adam Ledgeway
4. Judy Quinn
5. Claire Benn

Small Group Teaching (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

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 were encouraged from both undergraduate or postgraduate taught students. This category also includes undergraduate dissertation supervisors, study skills teachers, etc. who have been nominated for academic support.

SHORTLIST:  

1. Theresa Biberauer
2. Adrian Rodriguez Avila 
3. Ksenia Zanon 
4. Raquel Scarpa Gebara

Small Group Teaching (Science and Technology)

This award is for outstanding supervisors and other academic staff who do small-group teaching for courses in Science or Technology. Nominations were encouraged from both undergraduate and postgraduate taught students. This category also includes lab technicians, study skills teachers, etc. who have been nominated for academic support.

SHORTLIST:  

1. Dr Stephanie Smith
2. Rohan Mudkavi
3. Isaac Gianfrancesco
4. Bob Dillon
5. Miranda Lam

Student Support  (Academic Staff)

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.

SHORTLIST:  

1. Giulia Boitani
2. Deborah Longbottom 
3. John Biggins 
4. Nathan MacDonald
5. Sophie Pickford 
6. Valentina Caldari 
7. Francis Krampa

Student Support (Non-Academic Staff)

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.

SHORTLIST:  

1. Edward Grundy
2. Matthew Neal 
3. Tessa Milne 
4. Julia Blackwell 
5. Viktoras Poska

Student Partnership and Empowerment

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.

SHORTLIST:  

1. Jonnie Penn
2. Tyler Denmead
3. Haira Emanuela Gandolfi
4. Yusuf Mohamed Sayed

If you have any questions about the Student-Led Teaching Awards, please contact: membership@cambridgesu.co.uk