Congratulations to all of the recipients of the 2025 UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Learning and Teaching Awards and Citations! The following achievements will be celebrated at an awards ceremony on 2 April 2026 – stay tuned for an event registration page.
Awards
Team Teaching Award
- Christine Giles, Timothy Cook, Tom Foran, Fadi Kotob, Antonious Nehme, Fiona O’Sullivan, Andrea Stutz (Law) – achieving real-world transformative outcomes for Migration Law students
- Vanessa Scarf, Rachel Reid, Jennifer Fenwick, Kathleen Baird (Health) – leading child and family health education that shapes the first 2000 days
Early Career Teaching Award
- Milena Bojovic (Design & Society) – innovating for student impact: ethical and collaborative approaches to Generative AI
- Blyanka Ekanayake (Design & Society) – equipping construction and property students to lead industry tech innovation
Teaching by a Casual or Sessional Staff Member
- Paulina Larocca (TD School) – creative and embodied learning for ethical leadership in transdisciplinary education
Academic Support Award
- Kathy Egea, Akriti Akriti, Gavin Paul, Amara Atif, Sonia Matiuk, Chris Girdler (Education Portfolio & academic collaboration) – empowering academics to lead inclusive, data-informed teaching
Student Experience Award
- Kenneth Wu, Amanda White, Tracey Walmsley, Suying Zhao, Rina Dhillon, Nathan Wiltshire (Business) – empowering first-year Business student success through peer mentorship
Course Innovation and Enhancement
- Shankar Sankaran (Design & Society) – empowering postgraduate students to apply systems thinking in practice
- Gerhard Van de Venter, David Michaluk, Hardy Hulley, Richard Ingold, Alexandra Sloane (Business) – virtue by design: a research-informed ethics transformation
- Amir Armanious (Business) – empowering postgraduate students to apply systems thinking in practice
Contribution to Social Impact and Learning and Teaching Award
- Jack Cornish, Jessica Durant, Sarah Ellis, Steffi Dourado, Regan Gauci, Nema Madnani, Joe Tedeschi, Zoe Vassalo (Health) – enhancing social impact, inclusion and belonging for Health undergraduates
Citations
- Richard Kim, Chantal Donovan, Olivia Pek, Hannah Parker, Thomas Hueneburg (Science) – innovating flow cytometry for Science Immunology students
- Samuel Yu, Susanne Pratt, Scott Matter, Jarnae Leslie, Kevin Millingham (TD School & Education Portfolio) – empowering TD students to navigate uncertain futures
- Natalie Cummins (Business) – transforming Business students into storytellers who inspire and persuade
- Vitali Alexeev (Business) – transforming finance education with industry-focused AI
- David Waller, Kayne Chan, Melissa Clarke, Valeria Noguti, Natalina Zlatevska, Andy West (Business) – with will and animated storytelling, Capstone students find their way
- David Bedford, Nicole Sutton, Rina Dhillon, Hannah Pham, Kelly Wang (Business) – transforming accountants into data-informed decision-makers