Collaborative Awards for T&L 2022 winners

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2022 University Collaborative Awards for Outstanding Contributions to Teaching and Learning. This annual award scheme recognises and rewards groups of staff and students who have made exceptional contributions to the student learning experience.

Following a competitive application process, we are delighted to present awards to the following three teams:

Blended Learning – Exploring the Experience of Disabled Law Students

Amanda Millmore (School of Law)

Dr Rachel Horton (School of Law)

Sharon Sinclair-Graham (School of Law)

Darlene Sherwood (Disability Advisory Service)

Sheldon Allen (Student Partner)

Lauren Fuller (Student Partner)

Konstantina Nouka (Student Partner)

Will Page (Student Partner)

Jessica Lane (Student Partner)

This virtual student-staff partnership involved colleagues and students in the School of Law and the Disability Advisory Service working together to explore the impact of blended learning on students with disabilities and long-term conditions, to amplify the voices of these students and to enable meaningful change. Following consultation with the wider student cohort and focus groups led by the Student Partners, the project team produced a report outlining their findings and several recommendations. The project has led to tangible outcomes for all Law students during the 2021/22 academic year and moving into the future, including the scheduling of lecture release days across core modules, the formation of study groups and the introduction of a consistent Blackboard layout for the majority of Law School modules. This work has been shared widely across the University and at national conferences.

Community and Collaborative Practice

Sarah Bartley (Film, Theatre and Television)

Teresa Murjas (Film, Theatre and Television)

Lisa Woynarski (Film, Theatre and Television)

Ollie Douglas (Museum of English Rural Life)

Phillippa Heath (Museum of English Rural Life)

Isabel Hughes (Museum of English Rural Life)

Rhi Smith (Museum of English Rural Life)

Jasmine Martinez (Film, Theatre and Television)

Student Artists (Film, Theatre and Television): Francesca Earley, Erin Gill, Eleanor Knight,

Luis Littlefield, Chris Roye, Emily Shaw, Holly Sinclair and Georgia Wilson

Colleagues in the Department of Film, Theatre and Television designed and launched a new core Theatre module in 2021, Community and Collaborative Practice, which aims to enrich students’ performance-making through professionalisation opportunities. The Student Artists taking the module grouped themselves into performance companies and formed creative collaborations with local partner organisations/community groups - the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading Rep Theatre and Rosetta Life. The three creative projects which emerged from the collaborations have been shared with diverse local audiences and communities, including primary and secondary school pupils and their respective teachers, adults navigating life limiting conditions and arts practitioners. The project has resulted in significant impacts both on students’ learning and their emerging artistic practices, and on the partners/community groups.

Student-led design of inclusive and authentic assessments which embed employability in the Commercial Law Module at the School of Law

Alison Bisset

Elizabeth Conaghan

James Devenney

Kyriaki Noussia

Christine Riefa

Rosa Fernandes (Student Partner)

Anjola Odunaiya (Student Partner)

Harris Yousaf (Student Partner)

This team of colleagues and students in the School of Law worked in partnership to redesign a final-year Commercial Law module by introducing choice and inclusive and authentic assessments, designed by students for students. The Student Partners consulted employers and the wider student cohort through interviews and focus groups and then worked in partnership with staff to create formative and summative assessments which embed commercial awareness skills, including client interviewing, mediation, letter writing, due diligence and drafting opinions, all based around a ‘real-life’ case study. Additional activities were also provided to support students’ acquisition of commercial awareness, including a weekly ‘Commercial Law Club’ with guest speakers. The project has been a highly impactful experience for the Student Partners, and the redesigned module has been received very positively by students.

Please join us in congratulating this year’s winners!