{"id":1868,"date":"2014-05-30T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=1868"},"modified":"2014-05-30T11:27:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:27:45","slug":"loughborough-academic-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/05\/30\/loughborough-academic-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Loughborough Academic Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all those that were nominated and won awards at the <a title=\"LAAs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lsu.co.uk\/youreducation\/laa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Loughborough Academic Awards (LAAs)<\/a> for their brilliant teaching!<\/p>\n<p>Teaching award winners were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Extra Mile \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/socialsciences\/staff\/varney-scott.html\">Scott Varney<\/a>\u00a0(Social Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>E-Learning \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/sbe\/staff\/profiles\/hollandjulie\/holland-julie.html\">Dr Julie Holland<\/a>\u00a0(Business and Economics)<\/li>\n<li>Agent of Change \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/civil-building\/staff\/adamuzulfikar\/\">Dr Zulfikar Adamu\u00a0<\/a>(Civil and Building Engineering)<\/li>\n<li>Inspiration \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/geography\/staff\/academic\/mills-s.html\">Dr Sarah Mills<\/a>\u00a0(Geography)\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/english-drama\/staff\/dr-nick-freeman.html\">Dr Nick Freeman<\/a> (English and Drama)<\/li>\n<li>Personal Tutor \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/maths\/staff\/professor-gavin-brown.html\">Professor Gavin Brown<\/a>\u00a0(Mathematical Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>Innovation \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/phir\/staff\/chris-szejnmann.html\">Professor Chris Szejnmann<\/a>\u00a0(PHIR)<\/li>\n<li>Fantastic Feedback \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/socialsciences\/staff\/academicandresearch\/elder-vass-dave.html\">Dr Dave Elder-Vass<\/a>\u00a0(Social Sciences)<\/li>\n<li>Academic Award of Excellence \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/phir\/staff\/marcus-collins.html\">Dr Marcus Collins<\/a>\u00a0(PHIR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A special congratulations goes to our Director, <a title=\"Carol Robinson Profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lboro.ac.uk\/departments\/mec\/staff\/carol-robinson.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr Carol Robinson<\/a>. Carol is also a Senior Lecturer in the Maths Education Centre and won a \u2018Highly Commended\u2019 in the Innovative Teaching category!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/05\/laas-night1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1869\" alt=\"LAAs picture\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/05\/laas-night1-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2014\/05\/laas-night1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2014\/05\/laas-night1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2014\/05\/laas-night1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2014\/05\/laas-night1-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2014\/05\/laas-night1.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to Becky Lauder-Fletcher VP Education and the Students\u2019 Union for holding the awards. The evening was a wonderful celebration of both staff and students. It has been great to hear from some of the winners how delighted they are with the award and we hope the LAAs go from strength to strength with even more nominations next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to all those that were nominated and won awards at the Loughborough Academic Awards (LAAs) for their brilliant teaching! Teaching award winners were: Extra Mile \u2013\u00a0Scott Varney\u00a0(Social Sciences) E-Learning \u2013\u00a0Dr Julie Holland\u00a0(Business and Economics) Agent of Change \u2013\u00a0Dr Zulfikar Adamu\u00a0(Civil and Building Engineering) Inspiration \u2013\u00a0Dr Sarah Mills\u00a0(Geography)\/\u00a0Dr Nick Freeman (English and Drama) Personal Tutor<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/05\/30\/loughborough-academic-awards\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[30,31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teaching-awards","category-teaching-excellence","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}