The Department of Law and Criminology has achieved outstanding results in the College Teaching Prizes for 2022
Each year, Royal Holloway, University of London awards a series of teaching prizes to acknowledge and properly support the amazing work done by staff in the previous academic year.
Applications for this year’s prizes were submitted by teams and individuals, including teaching staff, postgraduate tutors, and learning, administrative and technical support staff, for their contribution to student learning within their professional roles.
The aims of the College Teaching Prize scheme are:
- to raise the profile of teaching and to underline the College's commitment to it by recognising initiatives which have had a beneficial impact on student learning;
- to share good practice by publicising initiatives which have the scope to influence support for student learning more generally.
The Department of Law and Criminology is very pleased to announce that some of their staff were awarded prizes under this scheme.
Dr Alexander Gilder (now at the University of Reading) and Nicola Antoniou (Senior Lecturer) - together with other researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London - won a Team Teaching Prize for their project on International Collaborative Peer Learning: Constructing an Inclusive Online Learning Environment to Promote Social Responsibility. This project a ground-breaking international learning collaboration between students based in the UK and the Horn of Africa to promote deep peer learning by creating an innovative legal advice website – one that has allowed students to make a real difference to human rights and peacebuilding in Africa as well as generating both stakeholder understanding and international partnerships.
Dr Eugenio Vaccari (Lecturer) was awarded an Excellence Teaching Commendation for his project on Assessing students through skeleton arguments to improve engagement and diversify their transferrable skills. The purpose of this project was to introduce new learning activities and assessment techniques to reduce the risk of passive listening and selective memorising of notions in lectures and tutorials. These changes had been implemented with a view of obtaining a high level of participation from the learners, as well as promoting “valid, fair and transparent” assessment.
The prizes have been awarded during the RHUL Teaching and Learning Symposium, which took place on 14 June 2022. The Teaching and Learning (T&L) network exists to promote and support teaching, the advocacy of teaching-focused staff, and to grow a community that collaborates. The full programme of the event is available here.
Congratulations to all our staff for these amazing achievements, as well as for their well-deserved recognition of the impact and importance of their work! We look forward to celebrating many more success stories in the near future!
