Provost's Teaching Awards winners

The winners, in four categories, are:

• Beginning of Career - Dr Karen Radner (UCL History)
• Experienced Staff - Dr Tim Beasley-Murray (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies), Dr David Bender (UCL Medical Education), Dr Greg Campbell (UCL Biosciences), Dr Peter Delves (UCL Infection & Immunity), Dr John Eyre (UCL Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering), Dr Stephen Instone (UCL Greek & Latin), Dr Mark Lake (UCL Institute of Archaeology) and Dr Adam Wojcik (UCL Mechanical Engineering)
• Postgraduate Teaching Assistant - Miss Rachel Morley (UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies)
• Supporting Learning - Ms Judy Medrington (UCL Institute of Archaeology).

The awards celebrate excellence in teaching and serve to showcase the pedagogic expertise and leadership of our staff. They also demonstrate UCL's commitment to continuous innovation in the teaching it offers its students.

A call for nominations from heads of departments and deans produced a strong field of applications: testament to the commitment and strengths of those nominated, as well as clear evidence of the quality of teaching at UCL.

Submissions were judged on the basis of the nominee's:

• contribution to curriculum innovation and development
• contribution to the wider student experience, such as the skills or internationalisation agendas
• contribution to UCL's strategic commitment to educate for 'global citizenship', social responsibility, leadership
• engagement in the development of interdisciplinary programmes
• innovation in support for learning
• development of the use of new technologies in teaching and learning.

Professor Michael Worton, Vice-Provost (Academic & International) and the chair of the selection panel, said: "The panel was enormously impressed by the quality of all the nominations for the inaugural Provost's Teaching Awards. The range of teaching activities involves the often highly original use of both traditional methods and new technologies, and the commitment to inspire and encourage students to achieve ever more in their learning is clear evidence of why UCL is renowned for the quality of its teaching. All the nominees and, of course, especially the award winners, deserve our warmest congratulations."

The awards panel comprised: Professor Worton; Professor Vince Emery, UCL Pro-Provost for South Asia & the Middle East; Professor Jane Dacre (UCL Medical Education); Bob Allan, Senior Tutor; Dr David Green (UCL Psychology & Language Sciences); and Brigitte Picot, Director of the UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning & Teaching. Winners will be formally recognised at an awards ceremony on 17 July 2008.