As we celebrate our 60th Anniversary, the Sussex Education Awards are a unique opportunity to say thank you to individual members of staff or team, in your School or the wider University community, who have had, or are having a positive impact on your experience at Sussex.

Kelly Coate, Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students and sponsor of the awards said:

“I hear and recognise the brilliant things our Professional Services and Academic staff do to make Sussex the amazing place it is to study and work at every day, and amongst the thousands of staff here, there are some that take things to another level of excellence.

“It’s this brilliance that the Education Awards are designed to enable students and staff to recognise – those amazing people who make a huge difference to our students and our lives as colleagues at Sussex. I encourage all students and staff to take a few minutes to make their nominations and show their appreciation for someone who’s made a huge difference.”

There are five categories in the Education awards:

Teaching to Disrupt Award: An award that recognises teaching staff who dare to be different in their approach, challenging current pedagogical practice and theory. Holders of this award are surprising, innovative and pioneering. They inspire their students’ critical or entrepreneurial imagination.

Transformative Technology Award: This award will recognise staff who use technology in interesting and innovative ways in their work to enhance student learning, facilitate knowledge creation and aid educational administration. This could include using or developing leading-edge technologies, or using familiar technologies in an innovative or exciting way.

The Better World Award: This recognises staff who are actively engaged in efforts to make a positive impact in the local community and wider world in creative and entrepreneurial ways. In particular, this award seeks to recognise where community engagement has been built into the curriculum.

Learning Together Award: This award celebrates collaborations between staff and students and seeks to recognise those who embed meaningful participation in their approach to teaching and/or supporting the student experience. This could be through collaborative research projects or re-designing the curriculum, and may be demonstrated at a module-level or a wider interdisciplinary-level across the University. To be eligible for this award the nominees must be a team comprised of staff and students.

Sussex Spirit Award: An award that encompasses the five core values of kindness, integrity, inclusion, collaboration and courage, within the context of teaching and learning at Sussex. Winners of this award will demonstrably put into practice at least one of these core values.

Nominating a Professional Services or Academic member of staff is easy and can be done by visiting the Education Awards Nominations webpage.

The nominations close at 5pm, on the 19th of April and the Education Awards ceremony will be held on the 16 June at a campus venue.