Teaching Awards Criteria

LSESU Award for Personal AND PROFESSIONAL Development

• Helps you to utilise skills you learn in your degree to reach your full potential 

• Adds value to your prospects by extending and developing your skill set 

• Encourages you to excel professionally 

• Shares networks and professional and academic opportunities with you where appropriate 

• Recognises you as an individual and offers tailored support 

• You may nominate your academic mentor, or any other member of staff in the School

LSESU Award for Welfare and Pastoral Support

• Cares about your personal wellbeing and shows compassion 

• Understands the pressures that LSE students face at University 

• Is knowledgeable about the support services and welfare provisions that they can signpost you to 

• Offers individualised and appropriate support 

• Provides a consistent point of contact for you throughout your time at LSE 

• You may nominate your academic mentor, or any other member of staff in the School

LSESU Award for Excellent Feedback and Communication

• Provides constructive and relevant feedback in a timely manner 

• Provides comments to help you build on previous success and to make future improvements 

• Is approachable and responsive to students 

• Uses innovative methods in communicating and delivering feedback 

• Encourages your continuing academic development

LSESU Award for INCLUSIVE TEaching

• Actively encourages contributions and genuine dialogue with all students on the course both inside and outside the classroom 

• Recognises and welcomes the multiple identities of students and creates space in the curriculum for diverse voices 

• Establishes a collaborative, supportive and inclusive learning community 

• Creates a motivating, stimulating and principled environment for learning that involves all of their students 

• Effectively implements MyAdjustments 

• Ensures their lessons are accessible for everyone 

LSESU Award for Professional Services Staff

• Is brilliantly organised, offers great administrative support, and communicates regularly and effectively

• Continuously works to develop and enhance the student experience 

• Thinks about building community within their department and provides social opportunities for students

• Listens and acts upon student feedback, for example the feedback given by Academic Representatives at SSLC 

• Engages with students to offer advice and support

LSESU Award for PhD Supervision

• Considers you to be their intellectual equal 

• Is personally invested in the success and outcomes of your research 

• Acknowledges the value that you bring to the LSE academic community and integrates you in departmental and disciplinary communities

• Equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to successfully carry out your research 

• Provides regular, constructive and focused feedback enabling you to develop your PhD project 

• Shares contacts, networks and academic opportunities with you where appropriate 

• Encourages you to explore new and different ideas to their own

LSESU Award for staff / STUDENT PARTNERSHIP

• Regards you as an active, valued and equal member of the LSE community, in the classroom and beyond

• Takes a collaborative approach to teaching or extra-curricular activities by asking about your experiences, learning from your insights, and making changes in response to your suggestions

• Empowers and supports you to co-create new projects or positive changes in your course, department, university and communities

• You may nominate academic staff or any other member of staff in the School

LSESU Award for outstanding Teaching

• Provides exceptional teaching that is forward thinking and utilises engaging teaching methods

• Transforms the ways students see their field of study, challenges existing theories, and offers exciting and new perspectives on the curriculum or subject 

• Is willing to go beyond traditional methods of teaching delivery to ensure the subject matter is understood 

• Integrates opportunities for students to engage with and/or carry out research as part of the curriculum 

• Effectively incorporates technology and multimedia resources into their teaching practices 

• Includes innovative assessment options in their course(s)

LSESU Award for Social Justice 

• Engages actively in activities and initiatives to make a positive impact at LSE and beyond

• Empowers students to reflect critically and encourages them to apply the principles of their subject area within the wider world 

• Embeds social justice and sustainability in their curriculum and builds community engagement into their course

• Encourages and facilitates student activity focussed around social justice and sustainability

• You may nominate academic staff or any other member of staff in the School

LSESU Award for Departmental Excellence

• Is brilliantly organised and has great administrative support 

• Engages and interacts effectively, fostering a great departmental community 

• Provides opportunities for students to network and socialise with others in the department outside of the classroom

• Listens and acts upon student feedback, for example the feedback given by Academic Representatives at SSLC 

• Has excellent welfare and pastoral support services 

• Puts diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything they do