Last Thursday 200 students’ and staff members came together in Atmosphere Kitchen and Bar to celebrate the achievements of staff and student representatives in the students’ unions fifth annual Teaching Awards ceremony.
The Salford Teaching Awards are the chance for students to recognise excellent teaching and support from staff members at Salford. Over 150 staff members were nominated by over 400 students in 11 different categories. The nominated staff members were whittled down to a shortlist of three for each category by a panel of student representatives. The winners were announced in an evening of celebration of the excellent students judged that they were receiving.
The winners and short listed staff members were:
Best support staff
Winner: Chris Jones
Susannah Barker-Matthews, Manishadevi Patel
Personal Tutor
Winner: Stacey Gurrie
Catherine Croughan, Angela Olsen
Postgraduate Supervisor
Winner: Ralph Darlington
Alan Williams,Patricia Ragazzon
Best Postgraduate teacher
Winner: Alex Marshall
Emyr Bakker
Best Student rep
Winner: Shariq Poonawala
Ahmed Ibrahim, Natasha Reece
Innovative Academic Practice
Winner: Alex Fenton
Steve Hill, Andreas Tsopanakis
Employability
Winner: Jean Boubli
Gerard Wood, Geoff McQueen
Best Teacher- Arts and Media and Salford Languages
Winner: Keith Gould
Maggie Scott, Ian Wilkie
Best Teacher- Science
Winner: Sean O’Hara
Christos Papadopoulos, Gemma Lace-Costigan
Best Teacher- Business
Winner: Lizzy Przychodzki
Chris Doran, Andrew Goudi
Best Teacher- Health
Winner: Valerie Houghten
Louise Henstock, Karen Kinghorn
It was the Union’s privilege to be able to recognise such excellent staff and students’ who work tirelessly to make Salford the excellent environment that it can be.
Congratulations to all nominees!