Staff Awards
Accessible Education Award
Criteria: You can nominate an Academic staff member for this award. Nominations should include information about how the staff member has created high-quality hybrid teaching, implemented digital innovation techniques for learning and removed barriers to inequal accessibility. By using different styles of teaching and support, they have co-created with students and developed a future-thinking curriculum that is person-centred (despite locations and circumstances). They are engaging and deliver their teaching through a variety of techniques to support different learning styles.
Outstanding Academic Staff of the Year
Criteria: This award is for the Academic who has had the biggest positive impact more generally on student’s time at university. This could be because of their Teaching, Feedback, Lectures or could be due to their out of class community building, friendliness, Academic Tutoring. This is for those Academics who students feel like have made their time at Greenwich great.
Outstanding Support Staff Award
Criteria: This award is for those staff behind the scenes who will help a student on their journey through Greenwich as much as their academics will. Anyone from friendly porters and security guards to staff in a faculty or Schools office who maybe have helped their students with getting GIPs or Extensions.
Creative Feedback Award
Criteria: This Award is for those academics who have gone above and beyond in the feedback on assignments and assessments. This could be for the Academic who students feel have made the biggest positive impact to their achievements this year though constant supportive feedback, or maybe for that academic who gave a student time in their office hour to really discuss through how to tackle their work.
Student Partner Award
Criteria: This award recognises the academic who has most effectively listened to the student voice and acted on it. Whether through cocreating modules, responding meaningfully to feedback, empowering student representatives, or making visible improvements based on student experience, this award honours staff who work in genuine partnership with students.
This category reflects the importance of collaboration, shared decision making, and ensuring students feel heard.
Inspirational Teaching Award
Criteria: This award is for those Academics who’s teaching has gone above and beyond in engaging their students and making them want to study their degree. Whether they show passion and energy that has made a topic infectious, or someone who has made their area of teaching your favourite because of how they taught it. This is for that academic who has made you excited for classes.
Visionary Teaching Award
Criteria: This is the award for the Academic who has integrated technology into their teaching in the best way. Maybe they always have a Menti quiz which makes you engage in lectures, or maybe they are using a notes system that has helped your learning. This is to celebrate the great, and unique uses of technology across Greenwich.
Inclusivity Champion
Criteria: This is for the member of staff who has gone out of their way to include and show support for all the minority groups on campus. Whether they have made you proud during a liberation month, or maybe they have included liberation themes into their teaching. This is for the academic who has made everyone welcome on Campus.
Career Readiness Award
Criteria: This award celebrates staff who embed real world relevance into their curriculum and help prepare students for life after university. This might include industry-aligned teaching, employability skills development, meaningful placement or project opportunities, or curriculum design that reflects current professional practice.
Previous Winners
Discover our winners from previous years of the Student Led Teaching Awards.
Student Awards
Academic Representative of the Year Award
This is the Award for the Academic Representative students feel have had the biggest impact on their time at University of Greenwich, maybe they have had a good working relationship with their Academics and Cohorts, or maybe they have made real changes to the lives of the students on their courses. It is for those Reps who make a real difference in their learning Community.
Only currently elected Programme Representatives are eligible for this award.
Representation Executive of the Year
This student has fulfilled their role as a Representation Executive by successfully representing their peers, Programme reps, championing the student voice throughout their programme, department, and school. They have attended meetings with GSU and the University to provide clear and constructive feedback and have made an outstanding effort to communicate, engage and consult with their peers to represent a diverse and inclusive student opinion.
Only currently elected Programme Representatives are eligible for this award.
Most Engaged Representative of the year
Criteria: This is for the Academic Representaitve who has shown up the most this year to GSU events, PCMs, and who has consistently submitted feedback to our monthly form.
This Award has been chosen to thank those academic representatives who have engaged with our processes within GSU, and who have shown up time and again when asked.
Only currently elected Programme Representatives are eligible for this award.
Most Trusted Academic Representative
Criteria: Is there a Academic Rresentative you know if you say something to it’ll get sorted. Do they aways provide feedback after being told of an issue on your course? This is for that Academic Representative who has earnt your trust through their hard work and who you have seen make serious changed this year.
Only currently elected Programme Representatives are eligible for this award.
Student Sustainability Award
Criteria: This is for a student (representative or non-representative) who has made the biggest impact on making Greenwich greener. Whether that be through information campaigns on how you can make positive changes in your life, or through their work with charities, organisations or on committees. This is for our Net-Zero, and renewable champions.
Student Inclusivity Award
Criteria: This is for a student (representative or non-representative) who has championed inclusion of all groups on campus. Maybe they’re a lib-chair who has inspired you, or a course mate who has always made sure to be inclusive of everyone. This is for our champions of Greenwich’s diversity!
Student Activism Award
Criteria: Is there a student who has made a real change nationally or in the local community, or have they lead on an excellent campaign here at University? This is for the student who has put their all into their activism and has shown their leadership abilities.