Departmental Teaching awards announced

When this academic year began, no one could have anticipated the unprecedented challenge the department would face – adapting to the Covid-19 crisis lockdown and moving to online teaching almost overnight, so that students could complete their studies. Many of the academics with teaching responsibilities have been involved in short notice activities to switch to remote lectures, problem classes, practicals, examinations, and exam boards. Others have been making preparations for remote teaching of UG, PG and professional masters courses for next year.

Despite these challenges the feedback from our students on the quality of the teaching that we delivered has been very positive. This year we asked students for nominations for departmental teaching awards as part of the course feedback process and we have an expanded set of awards this year to recognise the outstanding efforts that individuals have made. 

In alphabetical order, the award winners are:

Dr. Peter Bloodsworth
Excellent student feedback on coordination and support of PRO Project Week.

Lewis Hammond
Excellent student feedback as problem class tutor for Artificial Intelligence and Computational Game Theory.

Dr. Chris Hargreaves
Excellent student feedback for teaching Forensics.

Dr. Varun Kanade
Excellent student feedback for teaching Computational Learning Theory.
 
Dr. Max Van Kleek
Developing and successfully introducing Ethics and Responsible Innovation.

Prof. Gavin Lowe
Excellent student feedback for teaching Concurrent Programming and Concurrency (with the latter moved to remote teaching during TT 2020).

Emma Osborn
Excellent student feedback for teaching Design For Security and Security Risk Analysis and Management.
 
Andrew Paverd 
Excellent student feedback for teaching Network Security.

Mark Slaymaker
Excellent student feedback for teaching Forensics.

Marcel Stoltz
Excellent student feedback as problem class tutor for Advanced Security.
 
Tomas Vaskevicius
Excellent student feedback as problem class tutor for Computational Learning Theory.

Dr. Helena Webb

Developing and successfully introducing Ethics and Responsible Innovation.

Alex Rogers (Deputy Head, Teaching) comments, ‘Thank you to the academic administration and support teams across the department who have made all this teaching happen and who continue to work on the changes necessary to deliver remote teaching next year.  The fact that we managed to deliver this teaching and assessment is a testament to their dedication and professionalism.’