Awards and Grants
Excellence in teaching is recognised through awards and fellowships at the University, national and international levels.
Contacts:
Your Faculty Associate/Sub-Deans (L & T) and Assoc.Prof Marian Tulloch Institutional Contact Officer) are available to offer advice on applications.
The Awards & Grants Officer - Kate Rose is available for advice on procedural matters.
CSU Awards
Further information can be found on the HR Website: http://www.csu.edu.au/division/hr/career-devel/vc-awards
The Vice Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence acknowledges excellence in teaching both by individuals and teams. CSU has aligned its policies and procedures with the OLT Awards. Expressions of interest and applications are called annually.
This is an award from 2007 and is offered annually. It is open to program teams from Faculties, Divisions or a mix of both. The award recognises Learning and Teaching Support Programs and Services that make an outstanding contribution to the quality of student learning and the quality of the student experience of higher education.
This is a newly approved award from 2012 and is open to all sessional academic staff members who meet the eligibility criteria stipulated in the guidelines below
National Awards
Office for Learning and Teaching Australian Awards for University Teaching (AAUT)
The Australian Awards for University Teaching are designed to recognise quality teaching practice and outstanding contributions to student learning. It is intended that recipients, with the support of their institutions, will contribute to systemic change in learning and teaching through ongoing knowledge sharing and dissemination, for example, presentations within the learning and teaching community, collegial mentoring, pairing and networking, and involvement in university and higher education committees.
Five Award programs recognising teaching excellence and outstanding contributions to student learning are available:
- Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
- Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning
- Awards for Teaching Excellence
- Prime Minister's Award for Australian University Teacher of the Year
- Career Achievement Award
Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning recognise and reward the diverse contributions made by individuals and teams to the quality of student learning.
Citations are awarded to those who have made a significant contribution to the quality of student learning in a specific area of responsibility over a sustained period, whether they are academic staff, general staff, sessional staff or institutional associates.
Citations provide an opportunity for distinctive institutional missions, values and priorities in learning and teaching to be recognised. Citations are awarded for a range of contributions to student learning, both direct and indirect.
Up to 160 Citations, including the Early Career category, with prize value of $10,000 each, are available in 2013.
Nomination Instructions
2013 Australian Awards for University Teaching Nomination Instructions and Supporting Information
http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/2013AAUTNominationInstuctions_0.pdf
Nomination Forms
2012 Citations nomination form (TBA)
12 Citations nominations summary form (TBA)
Nominations must be made by your Institutional Contact Officer via the Awards Portal
Closing Date
5pm (AEST) Thursday 9 May 2013
Presentation Ceremonies
Details of presentation ceremonies will be announced in 2013.
Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning recognise learning and teaching support programs and services that make an outstanding contribution to the quality of student learning and the quality of the student experience of higher education. The programs and services that receive Program Awards must have demonstrated their effectiveness through rigorous evaluation and will set benchmarks for similar activities in other institutions.
The eight categories for Programs that Enhance Learning for 2013 are:
- Widening participation
- Educational partnerships and collaborations with other organisations
- The first-year experience
- Flexible learning and teaching
- Innovation in curricula, learning and teaching
- Postgraduate education
- Services supporting student learning
- Global citizenship and internationalism
Up to 12 Awards with a prize value of $25,000 each will be granted across the seven categories in 2013.
Nomination Instructions
2013 Australian Awards for University Teaching Nomination Instructions and Supporting Information
http://www.olt.gov.au/system/files/2013AAUTNominationInstuctions_0.pdf
Nomination Forms
2013 Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning nomination form (TBA)
For ICOs
2013 Awards nominations summary form (TBA)
ICOs should only submit one Awards nomination form their institution including both Program and Teaching Award nominations.
Closing Date
5 pm (AEST) Thursday 4 July 2013
Presentation Ceremony
Presentations will be made at a national ceremony (TBA)
Australian University Teacher of the Year
Teaching Awards celebrate a group of the nation's most outstanding university teachers in their fields. Teaching Awards give recognition to teachers (individuals and teams) renowned for the excellence of their teaching, who have outstanding presentation skills and who have made a broad and deep contribution to enhancing the quality of learning and teaching in higher education.
The eight categories of Awards for Teaching Excellence in 2013 are:
- Biological Sciences, Health and Related Studies (including Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, Medicine, Nursing etc)
- Early Career
- Humanities and the Arts
- Law, Economics, Business and Related Studies
- Neville Bonner Award/s for Indigenous Education
- Physical Sciences and Related Studies (including Architecture, Building and Planning, Engineering, Computing and Information Science)
- Social Sciences (including Education)
- Priority Area for 2013 is: High impact strategies for progression, retention and attainment
Up to 16 Awards each with a value of $25,000 will be granted across the eight categories in 2013.
Nomination instructions
2013 Australian Awards for University Teaching Nomination Instructions and Supporting Information (TBA)
Nomination Forms
2013 Awards for Teaching Excellence nomination form (TBA)
2013 Student Feedback Questionnaire (TBA)
For ICOs
2013 Awards nominations summary form (TBA)
ICOs should only submit one Awards nomination form their institution including both Program and Teaching Award nominations.
Closing Date
5 pm (AEST) Thursday 4 July 2012
Presentation ceremony
Presentations will be made at a national ceremony (TBA)
For further information on the Office for Learning and Teaching Awards, click on the link below.
http://www.olt.gov.au/awards/nominations
A list of previous CSU winners can be found here
2013 Formal call for Applications for Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning and for Expressions of Interest in applying for Awards for Programs that Enhance Learning or Awards for Teaching Excellence (.pdf)
Advice for writing teaching excellence award applications
This link contains advice for writing teaching excellence award applications
National and international teaching excellence award schemes
This link contains a list of guidelines for national and international teaching excellence awards
July 2013.
The Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) is a Federal agency that promotes and supports change in higher education institutions for the enhancement of learning and teaching (see http://www.olt.gov.au/about-olt) OLT provides competitive funding for a range of grants, projects, awards and fellowships. Recently, the status of a significant part of this funding was changed to Category 1, to be recognised rightly as nationally competitive research income.
Accordingly, there has been a change at CSU to the management of these schemes:
- All grants and projects will now be managed through the Research Office This includes both CSU-led applications and those where CSU is a partner. Support for new applications includes coordinated academic review of proposals, budget advice and revision against scheme guidelines. Information about funded projects will also become available for participants via Research Master.
- Awards & Citations will continue to be managed through the Division of Student Learning.
Feel free to contact us directly with any questions or comments (research@csu.edu.au)
