- Understands the pressures that LSE students face at University
- Is knowledgeable about the support services and welfare provisions that they can signpost you to
- Cares about your personal wellbeing?
- Offers appropriate and valuable support
- Provides a consistent point of contact for you throughout your time at LSE
- 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
- Adds value to your LSE experience
- Shares networks and academic opportunities with you where appropriate
- Facilitates engaging debates and dialogue
- Offers course materials which are diverse and inclusive
- Takes the time to make sure the subject matter is completely understood
- Has a positive and encouraging approach to teaching and learning
- 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
- Your PhD Supervisor considers you to be their intellectual equal
- They are personally invested in the success and outcomes of your research
- They acknowledge the value that you bring to the LSE academic community
- Your Supervisor equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to successfully carry out your work
- They share networks and academic opportunities with you where appropriate
- They encourage you to explore new and different ideas to their own
- Your Supervisor considers you to be their intellectual equal
- They are personally invested in the success and outcomes of your research
- They acknowledge the value that you bring to the LSE academic community
- Your Supervisor equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to successfully carry out your work
- They share networks and academic opportunities with you where appropriate
- They encourage you to explore new and different ideas to their own
- Is willing to go beyond the traditional model and methods of teaching delivery to ensure the subject matter is understood
- Provides different and exciting perspectives on the curriculum or subject
- Seamlessly incorporates technology into their teaching practices
- Brings cutting edge research to their teaching
- Is charismatic and personable
- Has a comprehensive knowledge of their subject area
- 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
- Is brilliantly organised and has great administrative support
- Engages and interacts effectively, fostering a great departmental community
- Listens and acts upon student feedback
- Has excellent welfare and pastoral support services
- Puts diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything they do
- Well-known amongst their cohort, where students feel comfortable giving feedback
- Goes out of their way to support their peers and to gather representative feedback
- Attends SSLC meetings and works with departments to close the feedback loop
- Problem solves and seeks innovative solutions to problems
- Is brilliantly organised and offers great administrative support
- Continuously works to develop and enhance the student experience
- Listens and acts upon student feedback
- Engages with students to offer advice and support
- They encourage you to be a co-creator of your educational experience by recognising and valuing your contributions to academic discussion; giving you opportunities to conduct research; or facilitating the sharing of your knowledge with your peers
- They ask about your experience of the class and adapt the content and/or delivery of their teaching in response to your feedback
- They help to build learning communities which promote a sense of belonging and wellbeing
- They create an inclusive environment in the classroom by ensuring that a wide range of student voices are heard
Nominees do not have to hit all the criteria. Try to use examples to describe your nominee.