Vice-Chancellor Awards for Teaching Excellence

The UNSW Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Teaching and Supervision Excellence recognise and encourage sustained excellence in teaching and postgraduate research supervision. The awards will be allocated each year for:

Please Note: the information and advice on this website pertains to the teaching awards only. The Graduate Research School is now responsible for administration of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Postgraduate Research Supervision and has revised the guidelines and application process for these awards as well as producing a new Supervision Award Toolkit to aid applicants with their submissions. Please visit the Graduate Research School website for all information and timelines regarding the supervision awards.

The information booklet, nomination form and Head of School report form for all teaching awards are available from Human Resources. Please note that the information for each of the award categories provided below is only an extract of the full details contained in the information booklet.

These awards were created with Strategic Priority Funding and are supporting six outstanding young UNSW Researchers in continuing their research whilst undertaking innovative learning and teaching projects. Funds are used to enable the Awardees to appoint a postdoctoral Fellow to manage their research team and thus provide relief so that the awardees can concentrate on the development and evaluation of their learning and teaching initiative. Support for the development, evaluation and the wider sharing of the learning and teaching initiative is provided by Learning and Teaching @ UNSW. In 2006 this distinguished Award was presented to: Sean Li, Nicodemus Tedla, Stephen Bonser