On Monday the 21st of November, the Macquarie University community gathered in the Michael Egan Hall to celebrate the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards – where the winners of the Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Awards were announced.
In introducing the highly commended finalists and winners, Professor Rorden Wilkinson, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic), took the opportunity to recognise, celebrate and thank the educators across Macquarie University for their outstanding efforts to positively impact student learning.
We value our learning and teaching community and their commitment to enhancing the educational experience of our students, and we commend the role that they play in helping our student become connected, civic-minded citizens and graduates. These awards are the culmination of years of hard work, collaboration, and commitment to teaching excellence by our colleagues.
2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Excellence Awards ceremony
For those that missed the award presentation, you can watch the ceremony below:
2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Award winners
Vice-Chancellor’s Educational Leader Award
This award recognises staff educational leaders and how their leadership has influenced and enhanced learning and teaching and/or student experience.
WINNER:
The team of Professor Nathan Daczko, Dr Natalie Spence, Dr Matt Owers, Dr Joanne Dawson, Dr Prashan SM Karunaratne and Dr Andrea Chareunsy
Faculty of Science and Engineering and Macquarie Business School
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence
This award recognises staff for their excellence in teaching and support of learning, and the impact they have on motivating and inspiring students to learn.
WINNER:
Professor Riza Casidy
Department of Marketing
Macquarie Business School
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Learning Innovation
This award recognises staff for their development and implementation of innovations that improve learning, teaching or assessment to enable, motivate, support and inspire students to learn.
WINNER:
Dr Helen Siuki
Department of Marketing
Macquarie Business School
Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching
Early Career Award
This award recognises staff, with less than five years of teaching experience, for their quality teaching.
WINNER:
Maggie Lee
Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics
Macquarie Business School
Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching
Sessional Staff Award
This award recognises sessional and casual staff for their commitment to student learning and effective teaching approaches.
WINNER:
Joshua Fitzgerald
School of Chiropractic
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching
Student-Nominated Award
This award recognises teachers who have been nominated by students for teaching excellence and making a difference to learning.
WINNERS:
Dr Shireen Daft
Macquarie Law School
Faculty of Arts
Charanya Ramakrishnan
School of Computing
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Professor Anina Rich
School of Psychological Sciences
Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
Professor David Orsmond
Department of Economics
Macquarie Business School
Dr Christian Thomas
School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Faculty of Science and Engineering
Congratulations to all winners and highly commended finalists for the 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Awards.
Event photograph taken by Jesse Taylor
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