Student Nominated Teaching Award
This award provides an opportunity for economics students to identify and honour the most inspiring and dedicated teaching staff in their department.
Award nominations should be from a minimum group of three students (email addresses will be required) and include a nomination statement no longer than 500 words describing the teaching practice being considered and why it meets the criteria below.
Judging Criteria
The Student nominated award is for UK-based academics. The judging panel will be looking for teaching which possesses some or all of the following qualities:
- inspire and encourage student interest in economics
- challenge and motivate students towards academic excellence
- enjoy and recognise the importance of working with students and enhancing their education out of the classroom
- and whose enthusiasm for the subject is highly evident to his or her students.
Past Winners
2011
Winners: David McCausland, University of Aberdeen; Chris Jones, Aston University
Commendations: Neil Rickman, University of Surrey; Steven McIntosh, University of Sheffield; Peter Sinclair, University of Birmingham; Michael Walsh, Coventry University
2010
Winner: Judith Shapiro, LSE
Commendation: Michael McMahon, University of Warwick
2009
Winners: Andy Dickerson, University of Sheffield
Combined award (with Outstanding Teaching Award): John Maloney, University of Exeter
Commendations: Paul Allanson, University of Dundee and Matteo Iannizzotto, University of Durham
2008
Winner: Paul Latreille, Swansea University
Commendations: Kosuke Aoki, London School of Economics and Sanchari Roy, London School of Economics
2007
Winner: Duncan Watson, Swansea University
Commendations: Wyn Morgan, University of Nottingham and Osman Ouattara, Swansea University
2006
Winners: Maksymillian Kwiek, University of Southampton; Robin Naylor, Warwick University; and Alison Wride, Exeter University
Commendations: Ben McQuillin, University of East Anglia; Juliette Stephenson, Exeter University
2005
Winners: Anand Prathivadi Bhayankaram, University of Bradford and Jon Guest, Coventry University
2004
Winner: Nigel Duck, Bristol University
2003
Winners: Guglielmo Volpe, London Metropolitan University and Jeremy Edwards, Cambridge University
Commendations: Alice Sindzingre, SOAS; Andre Noor, SOAS and David Hendry, Oxford University
From the Winners
- Case study: "Economics is the study of scarcity": Avoiding the Various Means to Disengage Student Interest by Duncan Watson
- Case study: Reflections on Teaching in a Research-intensive University by Michael McMahon
- Case study: Coaching Economics by Michael McMahon
- Case study: Employability, Transferable Skills and Student Motivation by Michael McMahon
- Case study: METAL Resources Review by Juliette Stephenson
- Case study: Undergraduate Seminars for year 2 by Wyn Morgan and colleague
- Case study: Using FEELE online experiments in teaching by Jon Guest
- Case study: Introducing Classroom Experiments into an Introductory Microeconomics Module by Jon Guest
- Introducing Games/Experiments into an Intermediate Microeconomics Module by Jon Guest
- Handbook Guide: Case Studies by Guglielmo Volpe
- Case study: The Use of Case Studies in the Teaching of Business Economics by Guglielmo Volpe
- Case study: Using WebCT in teaching Economics by Guglielmo Volpe
- DEE Keynote: Teaching Undergraduate Economics (Video) by David Hendry
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