Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award & School Award for Teaching Excellence Recipients 2024
The Centre for Academic Practice would like to extend our heartfelt congratulations to each staff member for their remarkable achievement in being honored with an Award. Your exceptional dedication and contributions have truly set a remarkable standard for excellence.
The recipients of the Trinity Excellence in Teaching Awards & School Awards for Teaching Excellence were announced by the Provost Dr Linda Doyle at a ceremony in the Provost's House on Monday 24th June 2024.
“Each of us will remember a teacher or lecturer who inspired us to think differently or encouraged us to do things we thought were beyond our reach. The Trinity Excellence in Teaching Awards recognise those who go above and beyond in their teaching and I am very proud of this year’s recipients. They are all hugely dedicated to their students, innovative in and outside the lecture theatre, and incredibly inspiring.”
Provost Linda Doyle
This year’s recipients are:
AWARD BOOKLET 2024 - READ WHAT OUR STUDENTS HAD TO SAY
Award Winners 2024 & Centre for Academic Practice staff
From left to right: Ms Jade Concannon (AP), Dr Stephanie Holt, Prof Roman Romero-Ortuno, Dr Sheila Cannon, Dr Liz Heffernan, Dr Rachel Hoare, Dr Matthew Saunders, Dr Aibhin Bray, Mr Glenn Strong, Dr Neale Gibson, The Provost Dr Linda Doyle, Dr Aaron Hunter, Dr Suzanne O'Neill, Dr Chaolun Wu, Dr Martin McMahon, Prof Cristin Ryan, Mr Seán Phelan, Mr Eugene O’Rourke, Dr Lorraine Swords and Dr Pauline Rooney (Head of AP).
Awards 2024
Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award Winners 2024
From left to right: Dr Liz Heffernan, Dr Rachel Hoare, Dr Matthew Saunders, Dr Aibhin Bray, Dr Glenn Strong & The Provost Dr Linda Doyle.
Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award Winners 2024
From left to right: Dr Liz Heffernan, Dr Rachel Hoare, Dr Matthew Saunders, Dr Aibhin Bray, Dr Glenn Strong & The Provost Dr Linda Doyle.
The Provost's Garden
The Provost, Dr Linda Doyle
The Centre for Academic Practice Staff
From left to right: Dr Claire McAvinia, Ms Jade Concannon, Dr Pauline Rooney (Head of AP) & Dr Ana Schalk
What are the Trinity Excellence in Teaching Awards?
The Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award initiative is designed to recognise and celebrate those who have made an outstanding contribution in the pursuit of teaching excellence. 'Teaching' can be interpreted broadly to include curriculum design, delivery and evaluation, and ‘teaching excellence’ can take many forms. In the context of this award, ‘teaching excellence’ can be defined as achieving and sustaining outstanding quality of teaching and positive educational impact through the effective use of pedagogies that engage and enhance student learning. The prestige of the award reflects the value that Trinity places on promoting teaching as a scholarly activity and the importance placed on enriching the learning opportunities of its students. The Trinity Excellence in Teaching Award is a competitive process, with up to five awards made each year. The scope of the initiative is broad, covering all aspects of teaching, learning and assessment, and seeks to:
- Provide recognition for outstanding teaching
- Encourage teaching staff to reflect critically on their teaching and learning practice.
- Encourage teaching staff to consider scholarly approaches to course design, delivery and assessment.
- Reaffirm that curriculum development, teaching, learning, assessment and evaluation are important activities in College requiring high level expertise.
- Share best practice in teaching, learning and assessment across College.
Last year saw a change in how Trinity awards Teaching Excellence, with a new two-phase process initiated. In the first phase, each School convened a panel who were tasked with identifying a deserving candidate from applicants within their respective schools who would be honored with a prestigious School-based Teaching Excellence Award.
Teaching excellence can be defined as achieving and sustaining outstanding quality of teaching and positive educational impact through the effective use of pedagogies that engage and enhance student learning.
All members of Trinity academic staff, or academic-related professionals with roles in supporting teaching and learning, are eligible for nomination by students, alumni and staff. Candidates must receive a student or alumni nomination to be deemed eligible to proceed and must also be on one of the following contracts;permanent contracts, indefinite duration contracts, contracts of more than one year in duration that do not expire before 31st August in the year of submission or adjunct lecturers with a contribution to a programme that extends 13 months or more. Eligible nominated candidates will be contacted and invited to submit an application for stage 2 of the award.
If you would like to submit a nomination form for a Graduate Teaching Assistant please contact the Graduate Studies Office as this is a separate award.