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Collaborative Awards for Teaching Excellence

The Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE) recognises and rewards collaborative work that has had a demonstrable impact on teaching and learning. Introduced in 2016, the scheme highlights the key role of teamwork in higher education. See the winning teams below.
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Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence

Find out more about CATE, the team award which has been running since 2016.

Collaborative Awards for Teaching Excellence

Professional Experiences Implementation Group
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Institution: Aston University
The core Professional Experience Implementation Group at Aston University brings together academic pharmacists (from clinical practice to student support), practising pharmacists, industry partners and technical team expertise. It collaborates with the wider university, partner stakeholders and students to provide students with sustainable contemporary pharmacy experience across a range of sectors.
Social Work Course Team at London Metropolitan University
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Institution: London Metropolitan University
The team has developed a shared vision for their teaching and learning practice which emphasises relationship-based and creative critical approaches to learning. A relatively newly formed permanent team they are excited and inspired by the different perspectives each colleague contributes that shape their collaborative approaches to ensuring an excellent student experience.
The Personalised Medicine Team at Ulster University
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Institution: Ulster University
The Personalised Medicine Team at Ulster University brought together specialists from different disciplines in collaborative partnership, prioritising student experience and employability. Their holistic approach, integrating teaching and research, produced agile graduates, responsive to the needs of the sector and has benefitted the local economy through graduate training and job creation.
Warwick Postgraduate Teaching Community
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Institution: University of Warwick
Warwick Postgraduate Teaching Community is a cross-institutional community of practice: a professional learning space and site of advocacy for postgraduate researchers who teach (PGRs), typically PhD students. The team seeks to connect these early career teachers, both supporting and celebrating their unique contribution to Higher Education learning and teaching.
TALENT (Teaching and Learning Enhancement NeTwork)
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Institution: University of Leeds
TALENT, the Teaching and Learning Enhancement NeTwork, is a wide-reaching community of like-minded staff who are passionate about learning and teaching. TALENT creates a space for sharing evidence-based best practices in STEM. It is an interdisciplinary, non-hierarchical, open platform for engagement and discussion in Learning and Teaching.
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Institution: University of Liverpool
Liverpool Online unites academics, professional staff, and student representatives, behind a shared mission to extend the University of Liverpool’s global impact by delivering transformative educational experiences and outcomes for their worldwide community of online students. Since 2000, 21,500 students in 204 countries have graduated from their master’s and doctoral programmes.
University of Reading team
Faculty Departments: Institute of Education
Institution: University of Reading
The team’s key value is ‘collaboration’, at the heart of sustainability (Lozano, 2007). The collaboration created a mechanism for the team to work together, organically and with a wider team to develop and embed an initial teacher education (ITE) framework for climate and sustainability education across all ITE Programmes.
London South Bank University - Law & Technology team
Faculty Departments: Law & Technology
Institution: London South Bank University
The LSBU Law & Technology team offer collaborative project-based learning that enhances student employability through real-world projects, community engagement, and innovative teaching methods. They prepare students for employment in the digital economy, contribute significantly to current academic debates and support access to justice within their local community.
RITE (Research and Innovation in Teacher Education) - Northumbria Uni
Faculty Departments: RITE (Research and Innovation in Teacher Education)
Institution: Northumbria University
Research and Innovation in Teacher Education (RITE) is a team of nine academics and two school leaders from professional practice. Their work centres around developing innovative approaches to teacher education, supporting students to acquire essential competencies alongside the secure professional identity needed to prepare them for future employment and practice.
The University of Manchester Library Team
Faculty Departments: University of Manchester Library Student Team
Institution: University of Manchester
As a staff-student team with collaboration at its heart The University of Manchester Library Student Team (UMLST) has provided inclusive, accessible support for students since 2013. They create inclusive learning resources, lead workshops, shape policies, amplify student voices and foster a welcoming, supportive environment that is felt across the institution.
University of Huddersfield Health and Wellbeing Academy Get Set Goal
Faculty Departments: Health and Wellbeing Academy Get Set Goal
Institution: University of Huddersfield
Get Set Goal is an innovative University of Huddersfield community health and wellbeing service providing valuable placements for nursing and allied health students. Led by Clinical Services Manager Sarah Shaw, the team includes operational lead Dr Sarah Batt, Head of Division (Mental Health) Donna Kemp, and Project Officer Hannah Sladdin.
The Open University Fieldcast Team
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Institution: The Open University
The Fieldcast team have created an authentic, inclusive and engaging method for teaching fieldwork for the environmental sciences. Fieldcasts are live, interactive broadcasts of lecturer-actioned but student-led investigations, allowing students from anywhere in the world to participate and making practical field experiments accessible to students remotely, at scale.