Shortlist announced for The Education Awards 2020
19 May 2020
A round-up of the amazing individuals shortlisted for UCL Provost Education Awards, Student Choice Awards and Academic Rep of the year.
The annual Education Awards recognise and celebrate the achievements of staff and students and their contributions to our learning community, through:
The award winners will be announced from Wednesday 10 June.
UCL Provost Education Awards
Each of these nominees have been awarded a UCL Education Award by their Faculty.
Exceptional individuals and teams receive the Provost's Education Award.Ìý
These recognise staff making outstanding contributions to the learning experience and success of our students.
The inspirationalÌý32 individuals and 9 teams who have been shortlisted are:
Arts & Humanities
- Clare Lewis,ÌýBASc
- Stacy Hackner, UCLÌýInstitute of Archaeology and BASc
- Antony Makrinos,ÌýDepartment of Greek and Latin
- Fiachra Mac Góráin,ÌýDepartment of Greek and Latin
Built Environment (The Bartlett)
- Jenny Post,ÌýBartlett School of Planning
- Michelle Shipworth,ÌýUCL ISR
- Tse-Hui Teh,ÌýBartlett School of Planning UCL Careers
- Thomas Oléron Evans,ÌýCentre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Team
- Claire Prescott, Ruhana Begum, Maria Vaughan, Satinder Bhamra, Bartlett School of Construction and Project Mgt
Brain Sciences
- Jo Billings, Division of Psychiatry
Team
- Katie Fisher, Stephanie Lazzaro,ÌýAlastair McClelland, Daniel Richardson,Miles Tufft, Experimental Psychology
Engineering Sciences
- Irina Brass,ÌýDepartment of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy
- Niamh Mac Fhionnlaoich,ÌýChemical Engineering
- Leonie Tanczer,ÌýSTEaPP (Dept of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy)
- Marc-Olivier Coppens,ÌýDepartment of Chemical Engineering
- Pilar Garcia-Souto,ÌýMedical Physics & Biometrical Engineering
Institute of Education
- Esmé Glauert,ÌýLearning and LeadershipÌý
- Susan Taylor, Centre for Doctoral Education
Team
- ALT Team -ÌýLi Wei,ÌýJane Allemano,ÌýFroso Argyri, Alfonso Del Percio,ÌýZsófia Demjén,ÌýJohn Gray,ÌýTalia Isaacs,ÌýDavid Mallows,ÌýJim McKinley,ÌýDina Mehmedbegovic-Smith,ÌýJohn O’Regan,ÌýAmos Paran,ÌýAna Pellicer-Sánchez,ÌýMiguel Pérez-Milans,ÌýSiân Preece,ÌýAndrea Révész,ÌýKazuya Saito,ÌýRuanni Tupas,ÌýSahra Abdullahi,ÌýSezgi Goksan.Ìý
Laws
- Anna Donovan
- Paul Burgess
Team
- Rachel Knowles, Catriona Macdonald, Thul Khan, Sarah Joy, Jennifer Akinola, Sonia Kalsi, Dr Jacqui Kinghan, Shiva Riahi, UCL Centre For Access to Justice
Medical Sciences
- Adam Paige,ÌýCancer Institute
Team
- Taylor Bennie, Faye Gishen, Katie Wardle, Tor Wright, Daniel Ntuiabane, UCL Medical School
Ìý - Alvena Kureshi, Darren Player, Zahra Mohri, Tope Oyelade, Atalanta Hersey, Stephanie McColl andÌýSamir Nuseibeh, Division of Surgery and Interventional Sciences
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Stephen Potts,ÌýChemistry
- Stan Zochowski,ÌýPhysics & Astronomy
- Thomas Baird,ÌýEarth Sciences
- Gavin Esler,ÌýMathematics
- Cristiano Turbil,ÌýDepartment of Science and Technology Studies
Team
- Education Support Team – Physics and Astronomy: Selina Lovell, Helen Copeland, Ryan Edmonds, Sadia Begum, Annalisa Medici, Nadia Waller, Physics and Astronomy
Population Health Sciences
- Anne Peasey,ÌýEpidemiology & Public Health
- Jane Gilmour, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
Team
- Heather Bailey, Nigel Field, Maryam Shahmanesh, UCL Institute for Global Health
Social & Historical Sciences
- Jeffrey Howard,ÌýDepartment of Political Science
- Tom O’Grady,ÌýDepartment of Political Science
- Helen Brown Coverdale,ÌýDepartment of Political Science
- Silvia Sarpietro,ÌýEconomics
- Tatiana Thieme,ÌýGeography
Team
- Bill Sillar, Mark Roberts, Charlotte Frearson, Judy Medrington, Andrew Reid, Dorian Fuller, Sandra Bond, Andrew Gardner, Louise Rayner, Mark Lake, Matthew Pope, Alex Allen, Hannah Gibbs, Jon Cogdale
Central Services
Marie Xypaki, UCL Culture and UCL Arena Centre
Student Choice Awards
The Student Choice Awards give students the chance to thank members of staff who have inspired and supported them during their time at »Ê¼Ò»ªÈË, letting these staff members know that their hard work makes a difference.
There are 8 different award categories, covering a variety of areas and enabling a wide range of both teaching and non-teaching staff to be nominated.
This year 1267 nominations were submitted covering over 700 individual members of staff. Ìý
From these nominations, our panel of Students’ Union Officers and Faculty Reps have chosen 3 staff members to be shortlisted for each category, with a winner selected from this shortlist of 3.Ìý
The 24 inspirational staff members who have been shortlisted are:
Active Student Partnership
- Amanda Cain, Faculty of Life Sciences
- Declan Clear, Faculty of Engineering Sciences
- Klara Olofsdotter Otis, Faculty of Life Sciences
Amazing Support Staff
- Ian Evans, Faculty of Arts & Humanities
- Kathryn Ball, Faculty of Life Sciences
- Stefanie Anyadi, Faculty of Brain Sciences
Brilliant Research-based Education
- Ad Neeleman, Faculty of Brain Sciences
- Rana Khalife, Faculty of Engineering Sciences
- Tim Gibbs,ÌýFaculty of Social & Historical Sciences
Diverse & Inclusive Education
- Anson Mackay, Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences
- Beverley Butler, Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences
- Jenny McArthur, Faculty of Engineering Sciences
Excellent Personal Tutoring
- Alireza Mani, Faculty of Medical Sciences
- Angela Cooper, Institute of Education
- Nikolitsa Nomikou, Faculty of Medical Sciences
Exceptional Feedback
- Chris Yates, Institute of Education
- Keri Wong, Institute of Education
- Dr Mark Kristiansen, Faculty of Population Health Sciences
Inspiring Teaching Delivery
- Dr Caine Rolleston, Institute of Education
- Manzur Rashid, Faculty of Engineering Sciences
- Ramin Nassehi, Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences
Outstanding Research Supervision
- Dr Jennie Golding, Institute of Education
- Karen Edge, Institute of Education
- Kaśka Porayska-Pomsta, Institute of Education
Academic Rep of the YearÌý
ÌýAcademic Rep of the Year Awards celebrate those reps who went the extra mile to represent students, and have worked with staff to make student’s academic experience better.
A record 279 nominations were submitted for these awards, recognising 113 individual Academic Reps.
A panel made up of UCL staff and student representatives will be meeting by the end of May to recognise one student in every UCL Faculty, as well as an overall Academic Rep of the Year winner.Ìý
The Academic Reps who received a nomination within each faculty are as follows:
Arts & Humanities
- Ambreen Shaikh,ÌýBrittany Eldridge. Daniel Brennan, Douglas Kennedy, Hannah Bunt, Izabella Wodzka, Jessica Hannah, Katherine Forster, Monika Kovacheva, Pei Kong, Philip Rouse, Robert Wilding, Sophie Berman
Built Environment (The Bartlett)
Alexia Koch, Anping Zhang, Betty Chavez & Marwah Osama, Claudia Hitzeroth & Aymeric Amand, Fanfan Miao, Malak Nagib, Mohamad El Daouk, Renske Aussems, Silvia Velasco Arellano, Theo Wright, Tishauna Mullings, Tsz Man Yuen, Vasiliki Panagiotidou, Yangtao Ma
Brain Sciences
- Alexandra Badaoui, Alexandre Marion, Anand Kukadia, Anna Mallach, Ekaterina Stoilova, Ellis Langford, Emily Behrends, Kai Sheng Loh, Nessrin Younes, Osuji Adaobi Elizabeth, Rebecca Murphy, Sabine Topf
Engineering Sciences
- Adrian Matei, Ali Reyazat, Ashani Serra, Haoyang Shen, Jade Krishna, Ka Yan Kwok, Laura Brown, Lena Rowe, Rajesh Goyal, Sumaya Ali, Tsvetina Chelebieva, Zvezdin Besarabov
Institute of Education
- Chun-Yuan Hu, Clare Barclay, Constance Iloghalu, David Ruttenberg, Eleanor Booth, Faisal Ali, Fotini Diamantidaki, Haiying Liang, Kafi Zafar, Katherine Riding, Kitty Cooke, Linda Larbi, Lloyd Hendon-John, Longlin Niu, Lydia Shacklock & Hee-Eon Na, Ping Zhu, Reiko Naka, Sally Swift (Wightman), Xianda He, Yang Shen
Laws
Aishwarya K Shaji, John Choi Ching Jack
Medical Sciences
Akanksha Srivastava, Anush Shashidhara, Daniel Ntuiabane, Maria Florez-Martin, Ruth Gross, Shail Bhatt, Somar Albani, Taylor Flaherty, Yousif Ali
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
- Ane Gundersen, Assia Wirth, Daniel Gold, Espen Bergqvist, Kate Ridley, Kate Wang, Laura Sanchez Perez, Lou Durand Dit Lennad, Manasvee Saraf, Mansi Baguant, Martha Jennings
Population Health Sciences
Ali Alhawaj, Baneen Alhmoud, Elisabeth Robinson, Heather Gunn, Miyola Cia Fernandes
Social & Historical Sciences
Aleksandra Kaye, Christina Zimmermann, Gauranga Purohit, Iona Song, Katie O'Shea Hussey, Lorenzo Faggiano, Muhammad 'Adam' Atcha, Noor Attar, Sam Barnes, Valentina Arroyave