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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

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
CATE Winner 2019
Faculty Departments: Clinical Research Department
Institution: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
The Open Education in Eye Health is a model of open education practice developed, in partnership with academics, clinicians and learning technologists to address inequity in public health for eye care education. High quality online content and courses delivered through unique collaborations with subject experts and facilitated through detailed instructional designs for global participation and local application.
Newman University CATE 2019
CATE Winner 2019
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Institution: Birmingham Newman University
Student-staff partnerships at Newman University Birmingham created and evaluated data-informed proactive peer mentoring systems. Along with increased assessment submission rates and reduced level four withdrawal, evaluations suggest this mentoring promoted a sense of belonging in mentees whilst the staff-student partnerships enabled meaningful relationships between partners that dismantled traditional power relationships.
Student Engagement Team, Nottingham Trent University
CATE Winner 2019
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Institution: Nottingham Trent University
The Student Engagement Team is a small professional services team that leads on the NTU Student Dashboard. The Dashboard is the first learning analytics resource implemented in a large physical UK university, widely used both staff and students. Nearly 30,000 students and 1,500 staff access the Dashboard each year. The team have recently completed two Erasmus+ research projects working with five European partners and have commenced a further project with two new partners.
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Institution: University of Salford
Four Greater Manchester (GM) universities provide undergraduate nursing programmes situated within the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA), a vanguard site for testing new models of health and social care. The four HEIs are: University of Salford; University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Bolton.
CATE Team European Junior Leadership
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Institution: University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham, European Junior Leadership Academy (reLAte) team is a vibrant group of academics, learning technologists, professional staff and students who have participated in this exciting collaboration to bring to life the European Junior Leadership Academy.
CATE Team Community Football
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Institution: University of South Wales
It's a whole new ball game! In partnership with the English Football League Trust, University of South Wales (USW) has created a unique educational pathway to prepare graduates to work in football coaching and development.
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Institution: University of Southampton
Researching Assessment Practices (RAP) is a vibrant, creative, and supportive assessment and feedback community of practice. The RAP team are passionate about enhancing assessment practices through the use of a research-informed, inclusive, and integrated self-regulatory assessment framework (EAT), working with students as partners to support staff and student agency in assessment.  
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Institution: University of Sunderland
Foundation Press is run by Joe Woodhouse, Adam Phillips and Deborah Bower; staff from the Foundation Diploma and the Art and Design Extended BA (Hons) programmes, within the University of Sunderland, based at the National Glass Centre.
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Institution: University of York
The ProPEL (Programmes to Propel Effective Learning) Team was formed to support all of the University's 34 departments and centres through a significant learning and teaching change process. The project arose from the University Learning and Teaching Strategy: the introduction of a new approach to programme design and leadership, designated The York Pedagogy.  
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The Knowledge Exchange for Sustainability Education (KESE) team works to progress education for sustainable development through curriculum mapping, staff development, student engagement and celebration. It is currently using the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to frame its activities.      
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Institution: University of Chester
The Enhancing Fieldwork Learning project (EFL) started in 2010 as a successful bid to the National Teaching Fellowship Scheme project strand of the Higher Education Academy.
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Institution: University of Brighton
Time for Dementia (TfD) is a dementia education programme led by a group of teaching and research colleagues at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. In TfD, students are introduced to a family with dementia early in their training and then visit that family in pairs, every three months for two years to build an understanding of what it is to have dementia, as well as attending supporting workshops and stakeholder conferences.