The 2024 recipients of the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship and Collaborative Awards for Teaching Excellence attended a special ceremony at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh on 3 October to celebrate their outstanding contribution to excellent teaching in higher education.
This year, 55 higher education professionals are recognised as National Teaching Fellows, taking the total number of awards since the scheme’s launch in 2000 to 1198. Seventeen teams accepted a Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE), with the total number of CATEs to 136 since 2016.
Welcoming the 2024 awardees, Alison Johns, Advance HE Chief Executive, said,
“Outstanding teaching is the result of knowledge, commitment, passion, energy and creativity. It inspires students and motivates colleagues, underpinning an academic experience that is rich, rewarding and even life-changing.
“As a new cohort of students arrives at higher education institutions across the whole country, these awards are a hugely encouraging message to them, and a timely reminder to all stakeholders in and outside the sector, about the positive story of outstanding teaching in our universities.”
Professor Becky Huxley-Binns, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost, Canterbury Christ Church University and Chair, UK Teaching Excellence Awards Advisory Panel, said,
“These prestigious awards are the pinnacle of reward and recognition in teaching and learning. Our 2024 award winners have all shown the utmost dedication to creating an outstanding positive impact on student experience, reaching across their institution and beyond.”
National Teaching Fellow Dr Katherine Hoxton, Keele University, said, “The application process has been an amazing opportunity to reflect on my academic career.
"Through being an NTF, I hope to open up new opportunities for collaboration and to share my practice.”
Andrea Todd, National Teaching Fellow from the University of Chester, said, “This award means so much to me - but also it’s for all my students whose work over the years has been so important to getting me to this point.
"I hope the award will be a springboard for supporting students with parental responsibilities - an inspiring but underrepresented community."
Dr Paula McClean, project lead from the Ulster University CATE winning team, said, “We are delighted to gain recognition for developing personalised medicine as a new discipline.
“The development of trans-disciplinary students has the potential to revolutionise how we approach medicine.”