Teaching Awards Criteria

LSESU Award for Personal AND PROFESSIONAL Development

• Helps you to identify and 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 

• 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 you may be experiencing at University  

• Signposts you to useful support services and welfare provisions   

• Offers you 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, useful and timely feedback on your assessments 

• Helps you to understand your strengths, as well as how to apply their feedback to enhance your learning 

• Uses effective and/or innovative methods in communicating and delivering their feedback  

LSESU Award for INCLUSIVE TEaching

• Makes you feel comfortable in the classroom, and to contribute to discussions, whatever your identity.  

• Creates space in the curriculum for diverse voices  

• Establishes a supportive and inclusive community of learners in the class / on the course 

• Creates a principled environment for learning which respects differences 

• Effectively implements My Adjustments  

• 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 your experience  

• Thinks about building community within your department and provides you with social opportunities 

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

• Offers you advice and support when needed 

LSESU Award for PhD Supervision

• Is invested in your research and personal and professional development 

• Balances supportive supervision with fostering your independence and intellectual curiosity  

• Provides regular, constructive and focused feedback enabling you to develop your research, knowledge, and skills 

• Supports you in your professional development by sharing contacts, networks and academic opportunities 

• Fosters a sense of belonging, by integrating you into departmental and disciplinary communities 

LSESU Award for student voice and partnership

• Offers frequent and timely opportunities for you to provide feedback on your experience within a course, programme or department 

• Responds openly to your feedback, and is willing to make changes to improve your experience (or the experience of future students) 

• Effectively communicates what changes have been made, or the reasons why suggested changes were not possible 

• Takes a collaborative approach to teaching by giving you opportunities to shape your learning (as an individual or a class) 

• Empowers you to get involved with projects/initiatives to enhance your learning, or your wider experience, in your course, programme or department. 

• 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 way you see your field of study, by challenging existing theories, and offering exciting and new perspectives on the curriculum or subject  

• Is willing to go beyond traditional methods of teaching delivery to ensure you understand the subject matter and develop useful skills  

• Integrates opportunities for you 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 Educating for impact 

• Empowers you to think critically, innovatively, and insightfully, applying principles from your academic experience across LSE and the wider world to your learning 

• Develops your strengths as a Social Scientist, to contribute to the betterment of society  

• Invests in your community and helps you get more actively involved with education-related opportunities across the School 

• Supports you to take action towards sustainability, inclusivity, and diversity so that LSE works for everyone 

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 you to network and socialise with other students in your department outside of the classroom 

• Listens to and acts upon student feedback, for example the feedback given by Academic Representatives at Student Staff Liaison Committees (SSLC)  

• Has excellent welfare and pastoral support services  

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