President’s Award for Teaching & Learning Past Winners

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.

Excellence in Teaching 2016/2017

- Dr Malgorzata Krasnodebska - D'Aughton, School of History - Dr Tim O’Sullivan, lecturer in Pharmaceutical Chemistry - Dr. Jackelina Pando-Kelly, School of Medicine - Dr. Jillian Rogers, School of Music & Theatre

Excellence in Teaching 2015/2016

- Dr Brian Bird, School of Medicine and Consultant Oncologist Bons Secours Hospital, Cork - Dr Patrick Henn, Dr Irina Korotchikova, Mr Simon D Smith and Ms Sinead Riome, School of

Medicine - Dr Kenneth Burns, Dr Ruth Hally, Applied Social Studies, and Dr Catherine O’Mahony, Centre for the

Integration of Research, Teaching & Learning

Excellence in Teaching 2014/2015

- Dr Robbie Butler, School of Economics - Dr Claire Murray and Dr Seán Ó Conaill, School of Law - Dr Seamus O’Mahony Department of Government - Dr Theresa Reidy, Department of Government

Teaching Fellows 2013/2014 Award for Excellence in Teaching

- Prof Gavin Burnell, SEFS - Dr Fiona MacLeod, Medicine & Health - Dr Mary C Murphy, Business & Law - Manfred Schewe, CACSSS

Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching - Dr Tom Andrews (Nursing and Midwifery) and Ms Siobhan O’Connor (BIS) - Dr Zelda Di Blasi (Applied Psychology) - Dr David Fitzgerald (History) - Dr JJ Keating, Dr Eileen O’Leary and Dr Tim O’Sullivan (School of Pharmacy and Department of

Chemistry) - Dr Olive McCarthy and Ms Bridget Carroll (Food Business and Development) - Dr Pat Meere and Mr Eoin Lettice (Geology) - Dr Liam Fanning (Medicine), Dr John O’Mullane (Computer Science), Dr David O’Sullivan (Applied

Psychology) and Ms Kathleen O’Sullivan (Statistics) - Dr Theresa Reidy and Ms Fiona Buckley (Government) - Prof Gavin Burnell, SEFS

2011/2012 Award for Excellence in Teaching

Recipient Department

Daniel Blackshields Economics

Kenneth Burns & Caroline Shore Applied Social Sciences

Clare O’Sullivan Occupational Therapies

Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching

Recipient 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 & Midwifery

‘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

2008/2009 Award for Excellence in Teaching

Recipient Department

Louise Crowley Law

Fidelma White Law

John Doran Accounting

Eithne Hunt Occupational Science & Therapy

Linda Horgan Occupational Science & Therapy

Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching

Recipients Department Innovative Project

Dylan Evans & Catherine O’Mahony Medicine & Biochemistry

Cork Science Café: An Innovative Means of Promoting the Public Understanding of Science

Claire Hayes, Brendan Noonan, Lynne Marsh, Tony Archer, Sinéad O’Brien, Samantha McGlue, Nuala Walsh

Nursing Enhancing Teaching & Students’ Practice, Learning & Understanding of Basic Nursing Skills Through AV Technology

Martina Kelly & the ‘CP3’ team of Deirdre Bennett, Aishlinn Joy, Brad Noel, Claire O’Brien, Clare O’Leary, Gabriella Rizzo, Michelle Reardon, Siun O’Flynn

General Practice TACKLE-ing Professionalism – An Investigation of Teamwork and Context, Knowledge and Lifelong Learning, Empathy for Professional Training

2006/2007 Award for Excellence in Teaching

Recipient Department

Dr. John Considine Economics

Dr. John Fitzpatrick Process and Chemical Engineering

Ms. Helen Lynch Occupational Therapy

Dr. Áine Ryall Law

Dr. Noel Woods Centre for Policy Studies

Award for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching

Recipient Department Innovative Project

Dr. Zelda Di Blasi Ms. Anna O’Reilly Trace

Applied Psychology The Role of Mindfulness in Creating an Optimal Learning Environment

Mr. Bill Emerson Mr. Fergal Carton Ms. Karen Neville

Business Information Systems

Collaborative Knowledge-Base

Dr. Brendan McElroy Mr. Seamus Coffey

Economics Enhancing the Teaching and Learning of Diagrams in Economics Through Digital Video Recording

Recipient Department Innovative Project

Ms. Jacinta McKeon Education Use of a Simulated Recall Approach to Develop Student Teachers' Awareness and Understanding of an Aspect of their Teaching of a Second Language

Dr. Kathleen Quane Dr. Kieran McDermott

Anatomy An Innovative Multi-media Approach to Laboratory Teaching and Learning in the Biomedical Science

Dr. Áine Ryall Law Environmental Law Forum

Dr. Andy Wheeler Geology Enabling Vodcast Technology for Self-Learning (EVoTech)

2003/2004 In 2003-2004 teaching staff of UCC once again showed their commitment to teaching and student learning in a wide variety of ways. Seven staff members received the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching, after preparing and submitting reflective portfolios of their teaching, which included a video of their teaching and student evaluations. The portfolios had to satisfy a range of criteria, and in particular staff were required to demonstrate how their work is contributing to improved student learning. At the ceremony, a further eighteen staff were congratulated on winning awards for research into innovative forms of teaching and learning. Awards for Excellence in Teaching

Recipient Department

Dr. Finbarr Allen Restorative Dentistry

Dr. Edel Barnes Accounting and Finance

Dr. Alan Collins Food Business and Development

Dr. Alan Kelly Food and Nutritional Sciences

Dr. Andrew King English

Frank Martin Law

Dr. Eibhear Walshe English

Awards for Research on Innovative Forms of Teaching

Recipient Department Innovative Project

Kevin Cronin Process Engineering

Development of a Computer-Based Interactive Teaching Tool in Process Safety Design Studies

Alan Kelly Food and Nutritional Sciences

STEPS: Skills Training for Enhanced Postgraduate Studies

Dara Fitzpatrick

Chemistry VI-LABCLASS: Video Imaging - Laboratory Applications Brought to the Classroom

Kieran Mulchrone

Applied Mathematics

Development of 3D Interactive Software to Aid Visualisation and Understanding of Mathematical Concepts

Pat Meere Geology Modification of an "Off-the-Shelf" Digital Camera for Field, Laboratory and Microscopy Teaching in Structural Geology

James Cronin Jennifer O'Reily Fiona Kearny Simon Knowles

History of Art Adult Continuing Edcuation

Virtual "Visual Literacy": Art History, Computer Assisted Learning and the Adult Learning Experience

Recipient Department Innovative Project

John Fitzpatrick Edmond Byrne

Process Engineering

Visualisation in the Teaching and Learning of Chemical and Process Engineering

Frank van Pelt Ashley Allshire Orla Barry

Pharmacology and Therapeutics

The Use of Animated Graphics for Teaching Pharmacology and Toxicology

Bettie Higgs Marian McCarthy

Geology Education

A Resource Pack for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Brigit Carroll Olive McCarthy

Food Business and Development

Enhancing Blackboard for Distance Learning Programmes in UCC

Funding for all of these awards was secured from the HEA by Prof Áine Hyland, Vice-President and Chairperson of the Staff Enhancement and Development Committee. This is the third year that the initiative has been successful in attracting funding. These awards have helped raise the status of teaching in the University, and have increased awareness of the many teaching initiatives ongoing in all faculties. Office of the Vice-President for Teaching & Learning University College Cork TEL: 021 490 3609 www.ucc.ie/teachlearn