President's Award

The President's Awards

The President's Awards for Excellence in Teaching in UCC will be made again in the academic year 2011/2012. The overriding aims of these awards are to:

  • Recognise, reward and celebrate teaching achievement and contributions to good and innovative teaching in the university
  • Enhance student-centred Teaching and Learning at UCC
  • Contribute to the implementation of the Teaching & Learning strategy as outlined in the UCC Strategic Plan.

Calls for Awards / Research

The application deadline for the 2011-12 President's Awards has passed. Future calls for applicants will be published here and announced via All Exchange User Email.

President's Awards for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching & Learning in HE (266kB)

 

Recipients

Department

Innovative Project

Mr Daniel Blackshields

Economics

Visualising the Ordinary Business of Life in Cork: An Arts-Based Initiative for Transformational Learning with Economics

Dr Pádraig Cantillon-Murphy

Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Design for Clinical Needs: an interdisciplinary team approach to solving real-life clinical needs using the theory of inventive problem-solving

Dr Clodagh Harris

Government

Linking Democratic Theory and Practice: engaging undergraduate students in political reform through applied research

Dr Helen Hynes; Dr Robert Gaffney; Ms Theresa Power; Dr John McAdoo; Mr David Power

School of Medicine and ASSET Centre

A Study of Innovative Patient Safety Education in Undergraduate Medical Education

Ms Nicole Kennedy; Dr Robert Fourie; Dr Franc Chamberlain; Ms Nuala Walshe

Speech & Hearing Sciences/School of Music & Theatre/School of Nursing & Midwifry

‘Perfect Practice Makes Perfect’ – the Evaluation and Use of Simulated Scenarios to Prepare Student Speech and language Therapists for Clinical Practice

Dr Bridget Maher

School of Medicine

Development of a Smartphone Application – The Cork Letter-Writing Assessment Scale (CLAS): to help medical students improve their letter-writing skills/written communications

Dr Andrew Wheeler

Geology

Extending the Campus Teaching Spaces to Facilitate Learning

 

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