Nominees do not have to hit all the criteria. Try to use examples to describe how your nominee fits each criteria.
- You may nominate your academic mentor, or any other member of staff in the School
- 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 skillset
- Encourages you to excel professionally
- Shares networks 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
- 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
- Challenges existing theories and offers new perspectives
- Drives you to further your knowledge and understanding of the subject area
- Encourages you to apply the principles of the subject area within the wider world
- Facilitates engaging dialogue and creates space for active and genuine evidence-based exchange of views
- Transforms the ways students see their field of study
- Is willing to go beyond the traditional model and methods of teaching delivery to ensure the subject matter is understood
- Brings cutting edge research to their teaching
- Integrates opportunities for students to engage with and/or carry out research as part of the curriculum
- Provides different and exciting perspectives on the curriculum or subject
- Effectively incorporates technology and multi-media resources into their teaching practices
- Includes innovative assessment options in their course(s)
- 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
- Actively encourages contributions and 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
- Created a motivating, stimulating and principled environment for learning that involves all of their students
- Effectively implements inclusion plans
- Ensures their lessons are accessible for everyone
- Is brilliantly organised and offers great administrative support
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Makes you feel like an active, valued member of an academic community, in which students and staff can contribute equally (although not necessarily in the same way).
- Recognises and values your contributions to academic discussion; giving you opportunities to conduct research or share your knowledge with peers
- 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
- Invites and empowers you to co-create new projects or positive changes to students’ experiences (in the classroom or wider department)
- 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
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