Awards criteria

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

Affirming Academic Mentor

  • 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

Exceptional 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

Inclusive Teacher of the Year

  • 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
  • You may nominate a member of teaching staff

Pivotal 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
  • You may nominate a professional services staff member

Inspirational 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
  • You may nominate your PhD Supervisor

Student Voice Champion

  • 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

Outstanding Teacher of the Year

  • 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)
  • You may put a member of teaching staff

Dedicated Dissertation Supervisor

  • Is deeply invested in your research journey, offering thoughtful guidance while respecting your academic independence
  • Balances structured support with intellectual freedom, encouraging originality, critical thinking, and confidence in your work
  • Provides timely, constructive, and insightful feedback, helping you refine your ideas, methodology, and writing
  • Actively supports your academic and professional development by connecting you with relevant networks, conferences, and opportunities
  • Creates a collaborative and inclusive environment, ensuring you feel valued, supported, and integrated into your academic community
  • You may put your dissertation supervisor

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
  • You may put your department

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