Nomination Criteria

The first ground under which you can SubjectKnowledge (under stage 1) is a ‘procedural error.’

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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