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Teaching Excellence Awards
and Teaching and Innovation Grants

Each year the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce confers Awards for teaching excellence. The Awards are structured to acknowledge the innovative and inspiring teaching of academic staff: those who are experienced and those in the early stages of their careers. To further support and promote teaching excellence the Teaching and Learning Unit coordinates the Teaching and Innovation Grants scheme.

Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dean's Award for Excellence in Tutoring

Dean's Certificates For Excellence in Teaching, Tutoring and Research

Teaching and Innovation Grants

Dean's Research Awards

The University of Melbourne and National Awards

The Faculty of Economics and Commerce confers the following Teaching Awards

Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching

The Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching is made in three categories: an Open Award (individual), an Open Award (team) and a Lecturer B Award.

The purpose of these Awards is to:

recognise and reward the teaching achievements of individual academics or teaching teams
encourage teaching excellence in academic staff through the identification of peer models for teaching improvement
promote the value of teaching as an academic activity in the Faculty
the emphasis of the Award is on the scholarship of the recipient in relation to their teaching

Application procedures (PDF 21 KB)

Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching Recipients, 2008

Leisa Sargent, Belinda Allen, Cynthia Hardy, and Jennifer Frahm, Department of Management and Marketing

Roland Hodler, Department of Economics

Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching Recipients, 2007

Sean Pinder and Les Coleman, Department of Finance

Joeri Mol, Department of Management and Marketing

Dean's Award for Excellence in Tutoring

On the recommendation of a selection panel the Dean will make one award of $1000 to a tutor in the Faculty who has demonstrated excellence in teaching practice. The Award is designed to recognise and reward the valuable contribution that tutoring staff make to the teaching program in the Faculty. The Award recipient may be invited to participate in tutor training seminars and to act as a mentor to other tutors.

Application procedures (PDF 23 KB)

Dean's Award for Excellence in Tutoring Recipient, 2007

Jessica Curtis, Department of Finance

Previous recipients (PDF 9 KB)

Certificates For Excellence in Teaching, Tutoring and Research

Certificates for Excellence in Teaching will be awarded to individual lecturers primarily on the basis of student responses the University’s Quality of Teaching Student Feedback Questionnaire. Performance on other questions in the survey will be taken into account as will any additional quantitative data collected by Departments. Teachers of subjects of less than 15 students are not eligible for the Certificate.

Guidelines (PDF 20 KB)

The Faculty of Economics and Commerce offers the following Teaching Innovation, Application and Staff Development Grants

Applications close Friday 27 November 2009.

The Teaching and Innovation Grants can be awarded to staff teaching at the undergraduate or the graduate level. The purpose of the Grants is to facilitate the development, adoption and maintenance of educationally innovative teaching materials and strategies that will enhance or transform student learning.

There are six broad aims of the Teaching and Innovation Grants:

To embed research into the teaching and learning of the Faculty Curriculum.
To internationalise the curriculum
To improve student perceptions of feedback
To develop assessment strategies and tools that will foster deep approaches to learning and attainment of the graduate attribute that are key outcomes of completion of the Bachelor of Commerce and Graduate degrees in the Faculty
To develop strategies that would assist students in transition from school to university and from the undergraduate degree as well as graduate degrees into the work force
To further develop staff awareness and use of multimedia technologies in their teaching programs.

There are two categories of grants:

Priming grants of up to $5,000. These are intended to assist academic staff to pilot a teaching innovation or to develop innovative teaching materials in the subjects for which they are responsible.
Project grants of up to $15,000. These grants are to be awarded to individuals or teams.

A total of $50,000 is available for these grants.

Successful grantees are required to submit a summary of your intended project (up to 800 words) for inclusion on the TLU research website prior to release of funds (http://tlu.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/about_us/research.html); a progress report; a final report; and a presentation of the final results at a TLU Seminar. All projects are expected to be completed within one year.

Applications should be lodged with the TLU by 5pm on Friday 27 November 2009.

Please send applications to:
Sonia Puglielli (Secretary – Teaching Grants Committee)
Teaching & Learning Unit, Faculty of Economics & Commerce, Level 6, The Spot
sborg@unimelb.edu.au

Application procedures (PDF 40.4 KB)

Teaching and Innovation Grant Recipients, 2008

AWARDEE: Adam Barsky, Department of Management and Marketing

PROJECT: A web-based applied research tool for MHRM students (PDF 13 KB)

AWARDEE: Albie Brooks, Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems

PROJECT: Development of a best practice model for grading student participation in a seminar environment (PDF 11 KB)

AWARDEE: Angela Paladino, Department of Management and Marketing

PROJECT: Internationalising the student experience: Encouraging domestic and international student interaction (PDF 10 KB)

AWARDEE: Rhonda Smith, Department of Economics

PROJECT: Development of a DVD to support teaching competition law: Cartels (PDF 10 KB)

Previous recipients (PDF 21 KB)

The Faculty of Economics and Commerce confers the following Research Awards

The Dean's Research Award is made in two categories: the Certificate for Research Excellence will be awarded to any academic staff (Level B and above) who publishes in a top tier journal; and the Prize for Exceptional Distinction in Research and Research Training will be made to one Level D or E academic and one Level B or C academic.

The purpose of these Awards is:

to recognise and reward excellence in research as evidenced by publications in top-tier journals
to recognise and reward exceptional distinction in research and research training

Application procedures (PDF 39 KB)